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The Whole Story is an autobiographical perspective of a current doctoral candidate’s journey in Critical Praxis Research. It explains how CPR connects with and troubles four narrative threads of the author’s lived experience—spirituality, feminism, colonialism, and the personalization of research. As it demonstrates the appeal of Critical Praxis Research to a new doctoral candidate seeking to write a dissertation about the experience of refugees in American public schools, it also questions the academic assumption of research as faith-less and objectified. The article aims to show how an engagement of an educator’s entire self with her doctoral studies might create a doctoral experience that is connected to, rather than marginalized by or in competition with, the candidate’s life story. It concludes by outlining ways that doctoral candidates involved in Critical Praxis Research might create a holistic, connected doctoral narrative that is both self-critical and self-transformative.
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Kress, T.M. (2011). The Whole Story. In: Critical Praxis Research. Explorations of Educational Purpose, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1790-9_17
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