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I currently teach clothing, nutrition, health, and hygiene at a university of technology where I have been working for 19 years. In this chapter, I demonstrate how I have come to understand my mother’s educational influence on me as a university educator. I draw on my ongoing doctoral research into my lived experience of becoming an educator at a university of technology, as well as my master’s thesis (Makhanya, 2012), which investigated whether I was living my values in my educational practice (Whitehead, 1989).
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Reinikainen, L., Dahlqvist, H.Z. (2016). Curating an Exhibition in a University Setting. In: Pillay, D., Naicker, I., Pithouse-Morgan, K. (eds) Academic Autoethnographies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-399-5_5
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