Iâm Going Back to School: A Fortysomething-Year-Old Urban Appalachian and the Academy

Rebecca L. Thacker

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In this autoethnography, I explore the sociocultural and systemic forces influencing the post-secondary educational trajectories of urban Appalachian students by reflecting upon my own personal experience as a first-generation urban Appalachian college graduate through the lens of secondary scholarship investigating educational outcomes in the Appalachian community. In this chapter, I use this scholarship as a catalyst to explore my liminal identityâI live between two worlds, the world of my rural Appalachian ancestors and the world of the urban academic who has had a successful career in secondary education. I conclude this autoethnographic exploration by addressing the understudied impact of socioeconomic educational segregation (SES) on US public school students, focusing particularly on the socioeconomic composition (SEC) of the schools I attended. By drawing connections between SEC, the complicated intersectionalities at play in my life, and my own academic successes, I argue that while my personal educational and career decisions were in some ways limited by Appalachian cultural mores, they simultaneously were expanded by the urban environment I grew up in and the opportunities I had to attend socioeconomically diverse elementary and secondary school programs.

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Curating the Self and Embracing the Community

Autoethnographic Evocations of U.S. Doctoral Students in the Fields of Social Sciences and Humanities

Reihe:Â The Doctoral Journey in Education, Band: 1

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Print-Publikationsdatum:: 21 Sep 2023

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