Yuxi (Tracy) Qian is a full-time DPhil student in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford whose research sits at the intersection of museum education, creative pedagogies, and intercultural language education. She holds a BA in History of Art from University College London, where she was named to the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences Dean’s List for achieving the highest marks in her programme. She then completed an MPhil in Arts, Creativity and Education at the University of Cambridge, where her dissertation explored participatory art practices and the ethics of witnessing trauma in memorial museums.
From interpreting objects and images of other times and places to bearing witness to the traumatic histories of Others, Yuxi’s work is guided by the question of how museums enable learners to encounter the Other and, in doing so, reflect upon themselves. Her doctoral research extends this inquiry to intercultural language education, examining how object-based, multimodal art activities in museums scaffold intercultural communicative competence among emergent multilingual children during oral English interactions. She is also drawn to its epistemological dimension, emphasizing how learners move from static cultural knowledge acquisition to critical self-reflection and openness to the irreducible alterity of the Other.
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