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Navigating Names: Cultural Reflections and Educational Insight

Explore the complexities of names, cultural sensitivities, and self-identity through personal narratives and academic discourse, offering insights and future directions in educational practices. This book delves into the significance of names across different cultures and how they shape individual identity and societal perceptions.

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Navigating Names: Cultural Reflections and Educational Insight

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  1. Framing my Name: extending educational boundaries Dr Margaret Kumar Office.com Clip Art

  2. Outline • Problematising the concept of names • Emerging issues • The Book • Qian • Insights Gained • Future Directions

  3. Problematising the concept of names • Behavioural patterns • Silence – Quyen - Quin. • Physical reaction – cringing • Felt offended – Kala -Kaala • Insult - Jayawardena - Jaya • Confusion- local students; academics, international students

  4. Emerging issues Diversity, Dilemmas and anomalies, ‘Not knowing’, Cultural sensitivity, Gap Office.com Clip Art

  5. Framing my name: extending educational boundaries A window onto Chinese culture and society. So what is your real name? Immortality is in your name. Names, an Australian’s personal perspective. Names, an address without a postcode. Establishing the space of naming. • The ‘backstory’ to names and the naming process in Australia. • Names, the envelope of destiny in the Grassfields of Cameroon. • Self-authorship, the disturbing identity of the author. • Locating boundaries, different rhythms to the same Name. Office.com Clip Art

  6. Insights Gained Office.com Clip Art

  7. Insights Gained • Ontology • Continuum • Agency • Linguistic Markers Office.com Clip Art

  8. Two Examples In the name Kanamoori Veer Venkat Lakshmi Narasimha Rao: kanamooriis the individual’s father’s name: veer venkat, indicates that he is linked with the deity: Lakshmi. Narasimha Rao is the individual’s name. In the name Teresa Monica SumanWatiSingh, Teresa is a Catholic baptismal name, Monica is a Catholic confirmation name, Suman is a Hindu birth name, Wati denotes gender indicating that this person is a female, Singh is a Kshatriya caste group as well as a Sikh clan name following a patrilineal heritage. Thus this name indicates a melding of what is referred to as eastern and western cultures, a Hindu culture and a history of postcolonial influences.

  9. Future directions • Scaffolding • Empowering the student • Discussion and Questions Office.com Clip Art

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