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ERIC Number: EJ1250910
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0266-0830
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Working as a White Adult Educator, Using Our Own Life Stories to Explore Asymmetries of Power and Privilege
Fitzsimons, Camilla
Studies in the Education of Adults, v52 n1 p88-100 2020
The article is principally written for adult educators. It models an auto-ethnographic approach situating this within a critical pedagogic orientation. As an adult educator working in the Republic of Ireland, I draw from two instances in my own life that helped me to re-think my racialised identity. By reflecting on discomforts in terms of my own racial identity, the internalised nature of both white supremacy and racial oppression emerge. The stories and reflections that I share are intended as a prompt for other adult educators, particularly white-educators, to think about their own racialised identity and to contemplate ways in which they benefit from often unacknowledged advantages. This awareness can better equip adult educators to problematise simplistic interpretations of multiculturalism and to authentically ally with those who carry the weight of discrimination.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Opinion Papers
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Ireland
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