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Jeremy Grisham Ed.D., is a 2025 graduate of the Ed.D. program in Educational and Professional Practice at Antioch University.
Dissertation Committee:
Matthew Jakupcak, Ph.D., Committee Chair
Richard Kahn, Ph.D., Committee Member
Ryan Kasmier, Ed.D., Committee Member
Keywords
critical pedagogy, liberation psychology, feminist therapy, systemic oppression, trauma, moral injury, autoethnography
Document Type
Dissertation
Publication Date
2025
Abstract
This dissertation is a critical autoethnography, which evaluates a lifetime of experience through the lens of an educational theory in critical pedagogy, and two psychological theories in liberation psychology and feminist therapy. These theoretical frameworks will help me evaluate how the lessons of my life have acted in both oppressive ways, and ways in which I have supported and benefited from systemic oppression. This research demonstrates that the existence of my own diagnosed psychopathologies, which have provided symptomatic pressures, have ultimately stemmed from systemic pressures, even those systems of which I have inherently benefited. Through this research, I conclude that self-reflection is a key first step in making interpersonal changes, but also the change requisite in dismantling all forms of systemic oppression. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA (https://aura.antioch.edu) and OhioLINK ETD Center (https://etd.ohiolink.edu).
Recommended Citation
Grisham, J. (2025). A Pedagogy of Self: A Critical Autoethnography Evaluating the Self and the Lessons of Exposure, Experience, Action, and Inaction. https://aura.antioch.edu/etds/1184
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ORCID No. 0009-0009-0496-3190