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Date of Award
Spring 6-9-2023
Author Requested Restriction
Restrict to UW for 1 year - then make Open Access
Work Type
Dissertation in Practice
Degree Name
Doctor of Educational Leadership (EdD)
Department
Educational Leadership
Cohort
4
First Advisor
M. Billye Sankofa Waters
Second Advisor
Cleo Wölfle Hazard
Third Advisor
Dawn E. Hardison-Stevens
Abstract
This dissertation of practice is a thorough and reflexive examination of self and identity as I seek to explore relationship, as a white woman administrator at a community college, with Indigenous peoples without causing further harm with the goal of supporting Indigenous identity, self-determination, and restoration of land. Using the method of critical autoethnography interrogated through the lens of feminist epistemology, I explore questions of losing/discovering home, losing/discovering (my) mother, and grief in order to engage my whole self in my relations with my colleagues, my family and friends, and my community in the pursuit of liberatory action.
Recommended Citation
Pugh, Alison O., "Start with Self: Considerations of Being in Relationship" (2023). Ed.D. Dissertations in Practice. 89.
https://digitalcommons.tacoma.uw.edu/edd_capstones/89