Drawing WE

When we were first assigned to draw what we considered the position of WE and our own context in WE, I was somewhat apprehensive. I am NOT an artist! In the end, though, we did not do much drawing, thanks to Google Images, which made me much less apprehensive.

However, I found our drawing activity to have much value for me as a teacher, a writing center director, and a PhD student. Our group focused on representing WE as many roads converging to meet as one - an apt metaphor for both the WE field and our individual journeys as students and future scholars of WE. We illustrated the road to "glocalization" with images of the different attitudes people and governments have toward WE. Economic issues and linguistic imperialism were two of the first issues we brought up, and these are, I believe, important issues that all of us (not just our group or our class but everyone) will have to address on this road to "going glocal."

While I understand that it is naive to think that these issues will be completely resolved, I do believe that scholars in WE can do a great deal of good through research and education and effect significant changes in time.