(Un)doing home: exploring home-making and identity – an example of a project in a London higher education classroom
In this article we discuss the lived, embodied experience of home-making in relation to identity and belonging through the example of a service-learning project conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic in a higher education setting in London, UK. We also explore the notion of belonging-not-belonging...
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In this article we discuss the lived, embodied experience of home-making in relation to identity and belonging through the example of a service-learning project conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic in a higher education setting in London, UK. We also explore the notion of belonging-not-belonging as a cultural, material and embodied construct, inspired by critical pedagogy. We draw on posthumanism, new materialism, intercultural studies, (auto-)ethnography and creative practice research as possible lines of flight in deconstructing the dichotomy between home and a ‘foreign’ territory-other-than-home that sits at the core of intercultural discourses. We present this project as a possible alternative discourse to (un)do more traditional considerations of home-making as a much more complex construct; in the encounter with new territories, humans and other-than-human artefacts, objects, machines and landscapes, we argue that home-making is a continuous, never-finished process that moves the learner and their teachers continuously. We aim to bring to the forefront new emerging considerations of intercultural studies at the intersection with interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional discourses, breaking away from a more traditional and neoliberal view about what belonging means within the context of higher education.
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| spelling | doaj.art-a9a4f63199d04ebc927eb5adcabd922a2024-03-01T15:44:45ZengUCL PressLondon Review of Education1474-84792023-09-0121110.14324/LRE.21.1.33(Un)doing home: exploring home-making and identity – an example of a project in a London higher education classroom In this article we discuss the lived, embodied experience of home-making in relation to identity and belonging through the example of a service-learning project conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic in a higher education setting in London, UK. We also explore the notion of belonging-not-belonging as a cultural, material and embodied construct, inspired by critical pedagogy. We draw on posthumanism, new materialism, intercultural studies, (auto-)ethnography and creative practice research as possible lines of flight in deconstructing the dichotomy between home and a ‘foreign’ territory-other-than-home that sits at the core of intercultural discourses. We present this project as a possible alternative discourse to (un)do more traditional considerations of home-making as a much more complex construct; in the encounter with new territories, humans and other-than-human artefacts, objects, machines and landscapes, we argue that home-making is a continuous, never-finished process that moves the learner and their teachers continuously. We aim to bring to the forefront new emerging considerations of intercultural studies at the intersection with interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional discourses, breaking away from a more traditional and neoliberal view about what belonging means within the context of higher education. https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/lre/article/pubid/LRE-21-33/belonginginterculturalhigher educationservice learninghome-makingcreative praxis |
| spellingShingle | (Un)doing home: exploring home-making and identity – an example of a project in a London higher education classroom London Review of Education belonging intercultural higher education service learning home-making creative praxis |
| title | (Un)doing home: exploring home-making and identity – an example of a project in a London higher education classroom |
| title_full | (Un)doing home: exploring home-making and identity – an example of a project in a London higher education classroom |
| title_fullStr | (Un)doing home: exploring home-making and identity – an example of a project in a London higher education classroom |
| title_full_unstemmed | (Un)doing home: exploring home-making and identity – an example of a project in a London higher education classroom |
| title_short | (Un)doing home: exploring home-making and identity – an example of a project in a London higher education classroom |
| title_sort | un doing home exploring home making and identity an example of a project in a london higher education classroom |
| topic | belonging intercultural higher education service learning home-making creative praxis |
| url | https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/lre/article/pubid/LRE-21-33/ |