In her memoir, “Getting From There to Here: One Woman’s Journey from the South Bronx to the Academy,” Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz discusses the importance of writing an educational biography to better understand what informs our educational experience and to learn what we value through this experience. Sealey-Ruiz discusses how her parents’ own frustrated experiences with education put unique pressures on her to succeed.
Dr. Sealey-Ruiz also discusses how she excelled in junior high and high school and was in the top of her class but found herself testing into remedial courses when she entered college. She also talks about her own determination to continue college even when this meant walking away from a high paying salary and how that experience also motivated her.
In this short memoir, scholar, poet, and teaching expert Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz explores her own educational history and shares it as an example of how our relationship with our “educational autobiography“ affects how we approach our studies and who we are in and outside of the classroom.
Here again is the link:
https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/WILLA/fall05/sealey_ruiz.html
