ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the complexities of being culturally responsive and critically reflexive educators. This family history of teachers traces the laneways and routes taken over three centuries in New South Wales, Australia. Vocational journeys and family relationships are steeped in story; they are lived and retold in context, located in particular times, places and cultural complexities. The ephemera of lives provide partial footprints for the next generation to follow, but these critical wayfarers’ stories shape present and future pedagogical and relational choices. In the contested terrain of critical educators, memories and objects tell us only part of their stories. Critical autoethnography offers a methodological wayfinding, enabling deep consideration of the footprints that shape our present, where new conversations between eras and cultures become possible.
