Write about the experiences in and out of schools that shaped them as individuals and as learners.

Write about the experiences in and out of schools that shaped them as individuals and as learners. They will reflect on the way power and privilege did and did not manifest in these experiences. To demonstrate understanding of course concepts, students will integrate 3-4 course readings into their analysis (USE APA). This assignment aims to help students orient their views on education philosophies, policies, and practices in terms of their identities. Some questions to consider while crafting the education autobiography include, but are not limited to: How did your education experiences inform your views on education inequalities? Based on your own education experiences, do you believe that education can play a vital role in creating more just, equitable, and democratic individuals and societies? How has your intersectional identity informed the ways you think of and experience formal (institutional) education? Be sure to mention how the various facets of your intersectional identity (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, language, dis/ability, sexuality, religion, etc.) have shaped/intersected with your experiences in schools. For example, how has your membership in particular communities (religious, ethnic, racial, economic, sexual orientation, disability, and so on) shaped your thinking about schooling? Also, conclude by talking about how these experiences will help inform your future teaching. In other words, given all that you have learned/experienced, what might you do differently in your teaching practice (e.g., make sure students can see themselves represented in the curriculum, etc.). When writing this assignment, please keep the following words in mind. The autobiographical example, says Saidiya Hartman, “is not a personal story that folds onto itself; it’s not about navel gazing, it’s really about trying to look at historical and social processes and one’s own formation as a window onto social and historical processes, as an example of them” (Hartman, quoted in C. Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, 2017).

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