Transformative Adult Learning: A Postcolonial Autoethnographic Study of Transracial Adoption

• In Event: Deliberating Discrimination and Race in Worldwide Education Research

Abstract

This autoethnographic research project examines a transracial adoption through the theoretical lens of both transformative learning and postcolonialism. The collaborative researchers, adult adoptee and adoptive mother, examine this life-long learning experience through critical self-reflection, qualitative meta-analysis, and traditional ethnographic research methods within the overarching historical and socio-political context of Haiti. The emerging findings address: hybridity of identity, white privilege and adoption, racial navigation, identity development through transformative learning, bonding and the transracial family, colonial and postcolonial paradigms and transracial adoption.

Authors

• Joni Schwartz, City University of New York - LaGuardia College -

• Rebecca Schwartz