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Teaching in Higher Education as a Vocation: Lessons and Insights From a Subaltern African Immigrant's Experience
Abstract
Quantitative method of research has been used to produce generalizations about the experience of immigrants that are applicable across diverse people, places, and times. While there are great insights and lessons that such studies have produced, ultimately, all immigrants must out of their relative obscurity critically reflect on their diverse life conditions and situations in order to construct nuanced meaning for their immigrant experience. Using the life history method of research in narrative form, this chapter highlights lessons and insights based on the life history and experience of the author migrating to the United States to pursue graduate studies and subsequently taking a fulltime faculty position. The lessons and insights will help the reader appreciate the challenges faced by a minority immigrant faculty from West Africa while highlighting some coping strategies that can help ensure the thriving and flourishing of such a faculty person as an immigrant.
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