This book illustrates how the experiential histories of teachers shape and inform the knowledge of teachers as professionals. Situating personal experiences into the context of social, political, and economic events gives clarity to the intercultural dynamics of being Chinese and Western. What can we learn from each other to transform our teaching and learning? The book engages in a cross-cultural perspective that is highly relevant for teachers, teacher education, curriculum making and policy planning for a global community. The book is also an invitation to internationalize the classroom for teaching and learning in a diverse and global world, and to educators and policy makers to expand our understanding of cross-cultural complexities for an increasingly diversified and global community. By viewing the classroom through the multiple lens of different cultures, educators have an opportunity to cross over to see, experience, and understand how others live.

Applies the innovative framework of Narrative Inquiry to explore a teacher's personal and professional identity Affirms teacher personal experiential histories as central to shaping educational theories and practices Provides mutual understanding and reciprocal learning of Chinese and Western education

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Betty C. Eng is a longtime teacher educator and former faculty member at The Education University of Hong Kong and the University of California, Davis, USA, as well as California State University, Sacramento, USA. She is a Chinese American, born in China and raised in the United States. She received her Ed.D. from University of Toronto.

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Chapter 1. Introduction: 'Juk Sing'.- Chapter 2. All I Have Are My Experiences: The Soil From Which the Inquiry Flourishes.- Chapter 3. Giving Definition to the Contours of the Landscape: The Scaffolding that Frames the Inquiry.- Chapter 4. A Sojourner in a Village Landscape: The Earth that Seeds.- Chapter 5. Journeying to Gold Mountain: Uprooted and Transplanted to New Soil.- Chapter 6. Seeking Gold Mountain: Grafted and Propagated.- Chapter 7. Hong Kong, The People's Republic of China: Transported with Multiple Grafts and Growths.- Chapter 8. Uprooted and Transplanted Redux: From Hong Kong to Reentry to United States.- Chapter 9. Looking Back and Looking Forward.