The Crooked Path: Storied Moments in My Doctoral Journey

Jinny Menon

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Pages:: 27–48

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004690479_002

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In this chapter, the author reflects on different storied moments contouring the crooked paths she traversed in her doctoral journey. She adopts a narrative lens that enables her to inquire into these experiences as means of making visible the unique plotlines that she has lived as a South Asian female learner, educator, and researcher living in Canada. Interwoven within this chapter are artful images and poetic musings representative of the ways in which she has been storied by herself and others in different worlds. Alongside epistemic and ontological considerations, contemplated separately and together, each of these autobiographically narrated moments are indicative of the complexity and messiness involved in undertaking such an educational venture. Unlike the master narrative in Western society, which suggests that a doctoral journey is a clear-cut path, the storied moments taken up in this chapter illuminate some of the challenges and tensions a racialized female can encounter in attempting to learn and grow within different worlds of education, research, and academia.

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Personal, Political, and Intellectual Perspectives from the First-Generation Doctoral Experience

Series: The Doctoral Journey in Education, Volume: 3

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 24 Jan 2024

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