Who: Dr. Darryl Bautista
When: Monday, April 16, 2018, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Where: Ponderosa Commons Multipurpose Room (2012)
Title: Negotiating Cultural-Identity: Origins of and Impacts on my Teacher Self
Abstract and Biography:
I am a Canadian educator, born to immigrant parents of Filipino heritage. Simple enough, but the teacher-self is quite culturally layered. I have learned from, taught, and observed teachers within many milieus. I also co-authored papers with teachers negotiating our layered identities as contributory to our practice. For this presentation, I introduce my teacher-self via a few of my storied cultural experiences as a student and now educator.
My teacher-self stems from my lived experience as a child in Canadian classrooms. When I left Canada to teach abroad in 1996, my career in education began and my teacher-self flourished. I also developed this self when I returned to Canada, entered graduate school, and became a university professor. All the while, my cultural-identity travelled with me and, perhaps, guided my teaching journey.
I believe one’s layered cultural-identity informs the teacher self. By sharing and reflecting upon a few moments within my storied cultural-identity, I hope to show how I may be of service to the community of educators in the Faculty of Education at UBC.
Darryl D. Bautista earned his Ph.D. from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto (2005) in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning. He is certified with the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT), Intermediate/Senior (I/S) division and has over 20 years of teaching experience (English Language & Literature Teaching, K-12/Adult) including 10 years in Higher Education both in Canada and South Korea.
His qualitative research and methodological experiences include Arts-Based Educational Research (ABER) for his Ph.D. and Narrative Inquiry and Critical Pedagogy during his M.Ed. He is published in the fields of Diversity, English as a Foreign Language/Second Language (EFL/ESL), Cultural Self-Identity and Teacher Identity.