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Threat, Drive, and Soothe: Learning Self-Compassion in an Academic Writing Retreat
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Hammond, Kay – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
As an experienced participant in academic writing retreats, I became aware of conflicting feelings during retreats between ideas of restorative practice and the pressure to produce outputs. Through autoethnographic inquiry, I examined this conflict. I wrote a reflective journal to describe my lived experience of a recent retreat and analysed the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Altruism, Autobiographies, Ethnography
Leveraging Reading-Writing Connections through Three Transformative Reading Lenses
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De Piero, Zack K. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
In surveys and semi-structured interviews, Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) discussed the role of reading in their first-year composition (FYC) courses infused with 'writing about writing' and 'teaching for transfer' perspectives. Three transformative reading lenses played a pivotal role in instructors' pedagogies -- deconstructing genres,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Teaching Assistants, Transformative Learning
Exploring the Experience of Ten Australian Honours Students
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Allan, Catherine – Higher Education Research and Development, 2011
Honours study is viewed as a transition from undergraduate to postgraduate study and/or to enhanced career prospects. In Australia, Honours is usually an adjunct to the standard undergraduate degree. This paper provides an ethnographic study of 10 Australian Honours students. Seeing their experience through their reflections, in their own voices,…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Phenomenology