Drawing on recent developments within sociolinguistics, the objective of the current article is to explore how six pre-service teachers (PSTs) discursively positioned themselves and 'the multilingual' across two narrating events focused on their lived experience of language. The narrating events were focus groups with other PSTs (N = 24) and the…

Students enter higher education vocal music programs (HEVMP) with various singing techniques from home and desire to supplement that knowledge with professional classical singing skills. However, often the curricula of these programs are not structured to allow the music perspectives of home to influence students' understanding and application of…

Several scholars have, over the years, written about their experiences of the pathway of PhD by publication (PBP). However, little is known about why African doctoral students pursue PBP and their experiences . In this article, we adopt collaborative autoethnography to document our experiences and motivation for choosing the PBP pathway. Based on…

Using collective biography, this paper examines the ways that rural identity mediates the leadership of two women working as administrators in higher education in the United States. We, the authors, examine our own leadership, as college administrators raised in rural environments, and seek to describe how the notion of rurality manifests in our…

This study applies heartful autoethnography to demonstrate the performance of being a mother in academia. As such, the article addresses: (1) motherhood versus mothering; (2) the concepts of presentation of self, passing, and covering; (3) systematic bias mothers face in academic spaces; and (4) the ultimate costs of covering motherhood in…

The notion of worldview figures prominently in the recent discourse surrounding Religious Education (RE) in English schools following the publication of the final report of the Commission on Religious Education (CoRE) in 2018. This article reflects on the veracity of this initiative. It begins with an autobiographical reflection on the impact of…

This article considers two examples of life story performance: the first autobiographical work about the author's recovery from stroke, and the second the life-story production Re-Live Theatre's "Memoria" about dementia. It explores how performing life stories facilitates connection between performers with transformed cognitive…

Working as women in academia may still be regarded as 'complex and fraught with myths, gross generalisations and mixed emotions' (Barakat, 2014, p. 1). In this paper, we articulate the collaborative autoethnographic process in which we have been engaged over some time and through which we have challenged generalisations, explored emotions and…

This article begins with a brief autobiographical depiction of my religious education. It then charts the ways in which the inadequacies of that religious education caused me to treat my family's traditional religious expressions with suspicion rather than appreciation, undergirding coloniality as a phenomenon within my religious education.…

This study presents a qualitative data driven account of highly personalized and transformative experiences that Bryan Schroeder reflects on, draws meaning from, and summarizes the professional value of how he was called, encountered, and changed by God as he pursued to know and love Jesus Christ wholeheartedly while growing in servant leadership…

The purpose of my inquiry is to learn more about how young children learn to play the piano through examining my own teaching practice. By using autoethnography as a creative nonfictional form of storytelling, I illustrate my learning journey in search for joyful and meaningful ways of exploring music and piano playing with young beginner…

"School as a site for the production of persons" (Packer & Greco-Brooks, 1999) is discussed in this article through an exploration of children's growth as students. Drawing on Nicholas' school stories from Rene Goscinny and Jean-Jacque Sempe's well-known series entitled, "Le Petit Nicolas," the kind of people we could…

Education is a human endeavor, yet its research often prioritizes empirical knowledge while marginalizing human aspects of the educative experience. Creating space for self has the capacity to foster wholeness where there is disconnectedness and, therein, challenge academic conventions that prioritize dehumanization. Situated within…

I have spent my whole life in 'class', first as a working-class girl and then as a primary school teacher, and later as an academic. My academic career spans over twenty-five years taking the work of Pierre Bourdieu to the limit. Taking Bourdieu's work to the limits is to engage with his research affectively as well as intellectually, to recognise…

Since the proliferation of social media use in mainstream society as a means of connecting and communicating with others, postsecondary institutions have adopted social media for a myriad of purposes such as connecting with students, recruiting, and teaching. Higher education administrators are also using social media as a means of evaluating…