“You turned Asian before my very eyes,” a colleague told me after a potentially explosive parent-teacher conference with a Middle Eastern, immigrant family.
This is the beginning of an article that I have written about a term I have coined, transcultural acculturation, and has been published on Learning for Justice’s website. This week, I’d like to encourage you to read the article on the original site: https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/moving-from-bicultural-to-transcultural-acculturation. There are numerous teaching tips for everyone who works with Third Culture Kids. Let me know what y’all think.
Language and Equity Blog 
[…] our next post, we will explore the stages of identity development, especially as they relate to our Third Culture Kids, or kids growing up in cultures other than their parents’, and how these stages can help […]
LikeLike
[…] to be themselves, allows all of their identities and cultures to accompany them, and encourages transcultural acculturation. Our students deserve this kind of […]
LikeLike
[…] have written several articles concerning the idea of biculturalism and why it’s time to retire the term. However, there was a time when biculturalism was one […]
LikeLike