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Shaking off the Imposter Syndrome: Our Place in the Resistance
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Shaking off the Imposter Syndrome: Our Place in the Resistance

Michele Jarldorn and Kathomi Gatwiri
The Palgrave Handbook of Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education, pp.529-543
Springer International Publishing, 1st
12/04/2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86570-2_32
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Counselling, wellbeing and community services Inclusive education Work and labour market not elsewhere classified Gender aspects in education
Jarldorn and Gatwiri use auto-ethnographic and feminist theorisations to draw on their subjective experiences of gender, race, class, age and nationality to expose how the term ‘imposter syndrome’ attaches itself to bodies which transgress the ideals of traditional academia. Focussing on the experiences of transitioning from student to doctor, this chapter follows their entry into academia, exploring feeling ‘out of place’ through a structural lens in the context of the Australian neoliberal university. The authors conclude by offering the strategies they deploy to resist and challenge the narrative of the ‘ideal academic’, while shaking up academia through inclusive and critical approaches to teaching and student engagement, and through nurturing feminist friendships.

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