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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Adjusting one's self

an educator's experience in a peruvian community

Amanda Alexander

pp. 159-162

Abstract

Alexander's emotional responses to particular situations while living with an artist community in the Andes Mountains of Peru became a turning point in her life when considering privilege, difference, social justice, authority, and power. As a white female educator from rural Indiana, never in her life had she experienced such strong feelings of laughter, pain, and happiness as she did in the community as an outsider with mostly brown male artists. The fleshpoint described in this chapter includes a first-person point of view of being tear-gassed while a demonstration broke out over mining and water rights of Natives and leaves the reader with queries in consideration of international spaces.

Publication details

Published in:

Travis Sarah, Kraehe Amelia M., Hood Emily J., Lewis Tyson E. (2018) Pedagogies in the flesh: case studies on the embodiment of sociocultural differences in education. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 159-162

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59599-3_24

Full citation:

Alexander Amanda (2018) „Adjusting one's self: an educator's experience in a peruvian community“, In: S. Travis, A. M. Kraehe, E. J. Hood & T. E. Lewis (eds.), Pedagogies in the flesh, Dordrecht, Springer, 159–162.