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ERIC Number: EJ1162334
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Jan
Pages: 19
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1541-3446
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Learning to Disclose: A Postcolonial Autoethnography of Transracial Adoption
Schwartz, Joni; Schwartz, Rebecca
Journal of Transformative Education, v16 n1 p39-57 Jan 2018
This autoethnographic research project examines the transformational learning of a transracial adoptive adult mother and daughter through the lens of postcolonialism. As collaborative researchers, adult adoptee and adoptive mother, examine this lifelong learning experience through critical self-reflection, qualitative meta-analysis, and autoethnographic research methods within the overarching historical and sociopolitical context of Haiti. The findings address the lived complexities of increasingly hybrid families, particularly around the contentious boundaries of race, nationality, and colonial history, as they impact transformational learning. Color blindness and racial identity development for both mother and daughter within their relationship are explored. Implications for adult educators around the use of autoethnography to engage the social imagination and employ disclosure toward transformative learning are discussed.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Haiti
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