Informal Conceptual Mediation of Experience in Higher Education
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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
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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/
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Cover image by Chris de Beer
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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
133
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
175
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
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