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Engaging racial autoethnography as a teaching tool for womanist inquiry
Janette Y Taylor1, Melissa A Lehan Mackin, Angela M Oldenburg
1Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. janette-taylor@uiowa.edu
Abstract:
Racial autobiography, self-narratives on how one learned about the idea of race, has been underutilized as a tool to familiarize and orient students in the process of critical inquiry for nursing research. The aims of this article are to explore how racial autoethnography: (1) repositions students to effect an epistemological change, (2) challenges dominant ideology, and (3) functions as a link between the student and critical theories for use in nursing research. Students engage in and share reflective narrative about a variety of instructional materials used in the course. Reflective narratives are presented in a framework that addresses white racial identity development.
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