Fitzsimons, Camilla
(2020)
Working as a white adult educator, using our own life stories to explore asymmetries of power and privilege.
Studies in the Education of Adults, 52 (1).
pp. 88-100.
ISSN 0266-0830
Abstract
The article is principally written for adult educators. It models an
auto-ethnographic approach situating this within a critical pedagogic orientation. As an adult educator working in the Republic
of Ireland, I draw from two instances in my own life that helped
me to re-think my racialised identity. By reflecting on discomforts
in terms of my own racial identity, the internalised nature of both
white supremacy and racial oppression emerge. The stories and
reflections that I share are intended as a prompt for other adult
educators, particularly white-educators, to think about their own
racialised identity and to contemplate ways in which they benefit
from often unacknowledged advantages. This awareness can better equip adult educators to problematise simplistic interpretations of multiculturalism and to authentically ally with those who
carry the weight of discrimination.
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