Narratives of Cross-Cultural Understanding among South Asian Diasporic Students in Hong Kong
Dr. Seetha Lakshmi
Abstract
Culture can be conceptualized as a reservoir of resources and ways of thinking, acting, interacting and meaning-making. Children of migrated families tend to treasure their own ethnic cultures and traditions as well as learn and adapt to their host country’s cultures and traditions. Here language and cross cultural understanding (Ward and Kennedy, 1993; Kubota R., 2004; Wiggins B E., 2012; Gandana & Parr, 2013; Garcia, A C., 2014) play a critical role and a bridge between the immigrated communities and host communities. This study aims to explore the cross cultural understanding among the South Asian diasporic students who have grown up in Hong Kong and are studying in Hong Kong tertiary institutions.
Speaker
Associate Professor at the Asian Languages and Cultures Academic Group, National Institute of Education Singapore
About the Speaker
Dr. Seetha LAKSHMI is an Associate Professor at the Asian Languages and Cultures, National Institute of Education, Singapore. Appointed as a trainer in 1997, she has led teaching and research at NIE, concerned primarily with Standard Spoken Tamil, Curriculum Review, Classroom Pedagogy, Tamil pedagogy for the Tamil Diaspora and Teaching Tamil through Media.
Date
03 December 2015 (Thursday), 11:30am - 12:45pm
Location
Room 203, 2nd Floor, Runme Shaw Building , HKU
Chair
Professor Angel Lin
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