Woodchuck in the Mulberry Tree: Banjos, Coal, and Finding My Father

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 5
  In Poster Session: The Biographical and Documentary Research Poster Session

Abstract

The aims of this paper are: to tell the personal journey of searching for my identity within my father’s family, to give voice to women who went through pregnancy and childhood as single women and the struggles they endured, and as an addition to the literature for use of autoethnography in education. After walking this path and realizing the deeply embedded biases, stereotypes, and fears that I have never recognized, I realized that using autoethnography could be a way to teach about identity and diversity in higher education.

Author

• Donna M. Sayman, Wichita State University