ERIC Number: EJ1290392
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0300-4430
EISSN: N/A
Available Date: N/A
Mobilizing Historical Knowledge through Transcultural Play: A Multi-Sited Ethnographic Case Study of an Immigrant Child
Early Child Development and Care, v191 n4 p624-639 2021
This multi-sited ethnographic case study documents a second-generation Korean immigrant child who engages in regular border-crossing experiences between the U.S. and South Korea, his father's country of origin. Pairing a transnationalism framework with the concept of funds of knowledge, this study examined how border-crossing experiences and transnational engagement shapes the focal immigrant child's funds of knowledge and what he does with his transnational funds of knowledge. With the illustrative examples gathered across cultural boundaries and geographic borders, I discuss how transnational mobility constructed and expanded the focal child's depth of historical knowledge and the ways he transmits and mobilizes his historical knowledge beyond local-global spaces through transcultural play. This article emphasizes the need to create an educational space that makes immigrant children's agency in learning and transnational resources more visible. Furthermore, it offers new guidelines for documenting the connectivity and flow of young immigrant children's knowledge and experiences in the context of transnational migration.
Descriptors: Immigrants, Case Studies, Ethnography, Guidelines, Korean Americans, Cultural Background, History, Knowledge Level, Mobility, Foreign Countries, Play, Migration, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Parent Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Journal Writing
Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Grade 2; Primary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: South Korea; North Carolina
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A
Author Affiliations: N/A