Retracing the footprints of a family of teacher wayfarers

Title: Retracing the footprints of a family of teacher wayfarers
Creator: Hatton, Christine
Relation: Wayfinding and critical autoethnography p. 182-195
Relation: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) Foundations and Futures in Qualitative Inquiry Series
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2021
Description: How do we make our beginnings out of ends? In families, memory can significantly shape the present, leaving footprints behind or fingerprints that shape who we are and how we see the world. Pasts affect present relationships and the ways they unfold over time. Sometimes these are ghostly prints where the touch is so light, its shape is almost unrecognisable. The imprint can be so bare and faint, it is hard to see or feel, like a breeze brushing past us. Its residue can be almost invisible to descendants, and we may not even know the hidden work it does on us. Other imprints are hard- edged and clear. They make their indentations with deeper cuts to the surface, like hands grasping hard at the forearms of the living, keeping us grounded, keeping us connected. The closer the timespan between the generations, the more firm the imprint can be. The grasp of parents can be strongest, their imprint clearer on our perceptions.
Subject: footprints; descendants; generations; imprint
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1435141
Identifier: uon:39621
Identifier: ISBN:9780429325410
Language: eng

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