In the Name of Teaching: The Embodied Journey of a Different Kind of Educator

Abstract

The use of autobiography in the development of teacher identity can lead to a deeper critical examination of how issues of race, social class, gender, and gender identity affect experience and worldview. This path can helps future teachers become more attuned to the issues they will confront in their classrooms. In this speech, the author shares her own personal experiences to illustrate this aforementioned point. She shares her educational autobiography and highlights those educators who helped shape her educational practice and the relationship she has with her students.

Notes

¹Stuck-up person.

²Bottling information.

³Disrespectful.

⁴Little American girl.

⁴Little American girl.

⁶Disrespectful.