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Academic Autoethnographies Inside Teaching in Higher Education

Edited by Daisy Pillay, Inbanathan Naicker and Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN: 978-94-6300-397-1 (paperback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-398-8 (hardback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-399-5 (e-book)

Published by: Sense Publishers, P.O. Box 21858, 3001 AW Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.sensepublishers.com/

All chapters in this book have undergone peer review.

Cover image by Chris de Beer

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All Rights Reserved © 2016 Sense Publishers No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work.

We dedicate this book to the memory of our dear friend and colleague, Liz Harrison, who sowed the seeds of Academic Autoethnographies: Inside Teaching in Higher Education. We also dedicate the book to our inspiring mentor, Claudia Mitchell, who spread the seeds.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsix List of Figures

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1. Writing Academic Autoethnographies: Imagination, Serendipity and Creative Interactions Daisy Pillay, Inbanathan Naicker and Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan

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2. A Tinker’s Quest: Embarking on an Autoethnographic Journey in Learning “Doctoralness” Liz Harrison

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3. Conversations and the Cultivation of Self-Understanding Thelma Rosenberg

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4. Creative Self-Awareness: Conversations, Reflections and Realisations Chris de Beer

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5. Curating an Exhibition in a University Setting: An Autoethnographic Study of an Autoethnographic Work Lasse Reinikainen and Heléne Zetterström Dahlqvist 6. My Mother, My Mentor: Valuing My Mother’s Educational Influence Sizakele Makhanya 7. From Exclusion through Inclusion to Being in My Element: Becoming a Higher Education Teacher across the Apartheid–Democratic Interface Delysia Norelle Timm

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8. Transforming Ideas of Research, Practice and Professional Development in a Faculty of Education: An Autoethnographic Study Lesley Wood

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9. The (In)Visible Gay in Academic Leadership: Implications for Reimagining Inclusion and Transformation in South Africa Robert J. Balfour

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10. Informal Conceptual Mediation of Experience in Higher Education Bert Olivier

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11. Subject to Interpretation: Autoethnography and the Ethics of Writing about the Embodied Self Rose Richards

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12. Autoethnography as a Wide-Angle Lens on Looking (Inward and Outward): What Difference Can This Make to Our Teaching? Claudia Mitchell

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Contributors191 Index195

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

As editors of Academic Autoethnographies: Inside Teaching in Higher Education, we are grateful for the assistance of many pe