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Writing My Way Back Home: Reflections of a Rural Southern Educator
Abstract
In this chapter, the author candidly outlines his pathway through higher education. At present, he is an associate professor of special education at the College of Charleston. He's been fortunate to teach in many places and settings, from alternative high school to the university. The purpose of this chapter is to, frankly, write a chapter he wishes he could have read at 20 years old. Too often we tell the story of higher education as being one requiring specific decisions and targeted accomplishments. In reality, there is no one “path” to higher education, if that is what someone wants to pursue. His hope with this chapter provides an honest, unorthodox voice that helps support any fellow academics from the working-poor class, the rural South, or any other marginalized space. Hopefully, as we offer more diverse stories, we can demystify what it means to be a teacher, to be an academic, in a space that has long excluded many.
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