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The Key: Education as a Tool and Weapon
Author(s) -
Goodison Racquel
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12315
Subject(s) - autoethnography , acculturation , sociology , key (lock) , transculturation , multicultural education , media studies , social science , pedagogy , anthropology , multiculturalism , ethnic group , ecology , biology
This essay utilizes autoethnography to explore myriad cultural and institutional practices that impacted the author’s education while she was growing up in Jamaica, West Indies. Informed by and through the use of some postcolonial theory, the information in this text is presented in the form of the creative nonfiction essay and chronicles the ways in which education is a path to economic well‐being as well as a lesson in acculturation.