Sicheng Wang
Course-based2026

Cross-Cultural Education, Identity, Observation

Autoethnography Project

A course-based reflective writing project using personal observation to examine cross-cultural education and identity formation.

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Context

Course-based writing using autoethnography as a method for structured reflection on educational and cultural experience.

Research Question

How can personal educational experience be used as evidence for thinking about culture, identity, and institutions?

Short Abstract

This project uses autoethnographic writing to connect personal observation with broader questions about cross-cultural education, language, belonging, and institutional experience.

Methods / Evidence

The evidence is reflective and narrative, organized through specific observations rather than general claims.

Key Argument

Personal experience can become analytically useful when it is situated within cultural and institutional contexts.

Academic Relevance

The project connects writing, cultural analysis, education, and qualitative methods while supporting a broader interdisciplinary profile.

Reflection

The writing process helped clarify how observation, memory, and institutional setting can be organized into a careful analytical narrative.