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Katie Silvester – National Council of Teachers of English, 2024
This book demonstrates how researchers and practitioners in writing and rhetoric studies can engage in story work across differences in culture, language, locations, and experience. Based on an ethnographic study in Nepal spanning a decade, Katie Silvester speaks with and to the stories of Bhutanese women in diaspora learning English later in life…
Descriptors: Females, Literacy Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Dixit, Priya – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2021
This article examines (im)obility in the global visa regime through the experiences of a Global South academic working in the Global North. Drawing on an autoethnographic account of a visa application, this article outlines the ways in which the global visa regime negatively affects a Global South academic's life. Visa regulations constitute a…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Public Policy, College Faculty, Ethnography
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Castellsagué, Alba; Carrasco, Sílvia – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
Education is a privileged area of the dominant development model in Nepal, specifically focusing on women in rural areas. This article analyses the discursive construction of development and education categories in Nepal by exploring the narratives of Nepali women on education and development as lived experiences. It shows how global and…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Females, Womens Education, Educational Attitudes