@misc { , title = {Being and becoming human in higher education: A co-autoethnographic inquiry}, abstract = {We are South African academics in teacher development studies and educational leadership and management. In this chapter, we inquire, what have we learned through our autoethnographic explorations for re/humanizing learning and teaching, academic selves, and academic leadership in higher education? In our co-autoethnography (collaborative autoethnography), our selves and interactions with others provided a lens for examining linkages between human experiences and societal concerns. We studied our selves in the presence of others as a means of better understanding group culture in the context of higher education. Using the creative literary co-autoethnographic modes of personal narrative writing and poetry, we elicited and interpreted lived experiences in dialogic ways. Our inquiry reveals how, through narrative and poetry, evocative expressions of the personal can create connected ways of being and becoming academics. In higher education, the collaborative creative practice of an ethic of relationality and dialogue can make a re/humanizing difference.}, doi = {10.1163/9789004507593\_004}, isbn = {9789004507586}, pages = {31-42}, publicationstatus = {Published}, publisher = {Brill}, url = {https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/9898089}, keyword = {Centre for Research in Arts, Creativity and Literacy (CRACL), collaborative autoethnography, higher education, personal narrative, poetry;}, year = {2021}, author = {Pithouse-Morgan, Kathleen and Pillay, Daisy and Naicker, Inbanathan} editor = {Lyle, Ellyn} }