Open AccessAn Autoethnography of Culturally Relevant Leadership as Moral Practice: Lived Experiences through a Scholar-Practitioner Lens
Author(s) -
Charles L. Lowery
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2018.3347
Subject(s) - autoethnography , pedagogy , sociology , cultural competence , meaning making , meaning (existential) , value (mathematics) , lived experience , competence (human resources) , psychology , social science , social psychology , psychoanalysis , machine learning , computer science , psychotherapist
In this autoethnography, I am concerned with cultural relevance as an experience of a scholar-practitioner educational leader. I question my own cultural competence as a teacher and school principal. Turning a reflective gaze on my lived experiences as an educator creates a space in which I attempt to make meaning of the phenomenon of culturally relevant practices in the field of education. As an act of pedagogical and personal meaning-making, this autoethnographic work centers on the value of cultural relevance as informed by scholarly practice.