(Re)Making Identity: Educators' Experiences With Marginalization

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Abstract

Interest in educator identity research continues to grow with a focus on the formation, maintenance and effects of identity development on educator practices. Scant in the research, however, is an awareness about how life experiences with marginalization contribute toward the development of educators’ identities, particularly those focused on justice, inclusion and individual dignity. In this study, collaborative autoethnography, an emerging qualitative method involving two or more researchers sharing their personal narratives around particular topics, is utilized to explore the individual and collective experiences with marginalization of five educators, and the influences of these experiences on their professional identities.

Authors

• Ann Cranston-Gingras, University of South Florida

• Karen Ramlackhan, University of South Florida

• Nicholas Catania, University of South Florida - Tampa

• Gordon Brobbey, University of South Florida - Tampa

• Georgina Rivera-Singletary, Saint Leo University