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On Becoming Dissertation Advisors from a Decolonial Stance: Coming to Terms with Our Contradictions. A Collective Autoethnography

Imagen
ELT Local Research Agendas IV
Titulo
On Becoming Dissertation Advisors from a Decolonial Stance: Coming to Terms with Our Contradictions. A Collective Autoethnography
Autor(es)
Carmen Helena Guerrero Nieto, Pilar Méndez Rivera y Harold Castañeda-Peña
Titulo del Libro
ELT Local Research Agendas IV
Pais
Colombia
Editorial
Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
ISBN
978-958-787-896-7
Paginas
15-34
Año
2025

This chapter presents a collective autoethnography exploring the decolonial practices and emotional experiences of doctoral advisors in ELT within the Colombian context. The authors reflect on their journeys of self-cultivation, navigating emotional challenges, and fostering intersubjective growth through collaborative autoethnography. Emphasizing decoloniality as a praxis, they challenge dominant discourses of knowledge and authority in academia, highlighting the potential of collective reflexivity to promote healing and transformation. The findings reveal themes of emotionality, self-awareness, shared growth, and collective knowledge production, illustrating how decolonial approaches can reconfigure advisor-student relationships and contribute to more inclusive, reflexive doctoral practices.