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This chapter covers the author’s spiritual journey as an educator explaining how certain major events contributed to his growth and development, molding his approach to teaching and learning. Various unique lived experiences, both positive and negative, across different socio-spatial locations are discussed and how they have impacted the author in transformational ways contributing to shaping his values, ethics, and morals towards education both within the classroom and in the larger context of the communities which he belongs to. What has gravitated the author towards studying the impact of standardized testing on young children and youth particularly in the early years has also been discussed.
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Eizadirad, A. (2019). My Spiritual Journey as an Educator. In: Decolonizing Educational Assessment. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27462-7_1
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