Navigating Everyday Multiculturalism in the Culture Chats Writing Program

Observation from a Community Writing Workshop in Metro Vancouver

Authors

  • Jing Li University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus
  • Asmita Lawrence Culture Chats BC Association

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56105/cjsae.v35i02.5630

Keywords:

everyday multiculturalism, community of practice, public pedagogy, immigrant women

Abstract

Taking a grounded approach to multiculturalism and the lens of informal learning and community of practice, this study reports findings from a community-based collaborative research project that explored a group of immigrant women writers’ perceptions of and experiences with multiculturalism in a community writing workshop in Metro Vancouver, a highly multicultural and multilingual regional district in the Province of British Columbia. Drawing on observation, interviews, and written artifacts created by women writers regarding their experiences with and reflection on everyday multicultural encounters, we illustrate how learning possibilities and multilayered dimensions of multiculturalism unfolded within the quotidian intercultural setting of the writing workshop, and how the shared practices of writing and intercultural communication contributed to the construction of an ephemeral community of “hybrid knowing and knowledge.”

 

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Published

2023-12-19

How to Cite

Li, J., & Lawrence, A. (2023). Navigating Everyday Multiculturalism in the Culture Chats Writing Program : Observation from a Community Writing Workshop in Metro Vancouver. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 35(02). https://doi.org/10.56105/cjsae.v35i02.5630