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One of the defining features of autoethnography that binds all autoethnographies, as Holman Jones, Adams, and Ellis observed, “is the use of personal experience to examine and/or critique cultural experience” (2013, p. 7). In this chapter, I address the question of how autoethnography can contribute to teaching in higher education institutions, and situate this work in the context of South Africa.
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Mitchell, C. (2016). Autoethnography as a Wide-Angle Lens on Looking (Inward and Outward). In: Pillay, D., Naicker, I., Pithouse-Morgan, K. (eds) Academic Autoethnographies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-399-5_12
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