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Allinson, Jodie – Research in Drama Education, 2020
This article considers two examples of life story performance: the first autobiographical work about the author's recovery from stroke, and the second the life-story production Re-Live Theatre's "Memoria" about dementia. It explores how performing life stories facilitates connection between performers with transformed cognitive…
Descriptors: Audiences, Human Body, Autobiographies, Neurological Impairments
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Tedford, Keith; Kitchenham, Andrew D. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
This article describes a bounded action research case study that examines how reading and discussing a graphic narrative (March Book Two, a comic autobiography of John Lewis's life as a civil rights activist) enabled transformations in a group of seven adult student participants at a Canadian postsecondary institution. Data primarily gathered from…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Theories, Case Studies, Action Research
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Payne, Rachel – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2020
Since 2017 I have examined the impact of shifting professional practices demonstrated by students of an Artist Teacher MA programme at an English university. Students repeatedly discuss the transformative nature of the course, and through an impact case study I have interrogated the conditions which enable profound changes to occur. Emerging…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Teachers, Transformative Learning, Graduate Students
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Gunn, AnnMarie Alberton; Bennett, Susan V.; Evans, Linda Shuford; Peterson, Barbara J.; Welsh, James L. – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2013
Many scholars have made the call for teacher educators to provide experiences that can lead preservice teachers to embrace a culturally responsive pedagogy. We investigated the use of brief autobiographies during an internship as a tool (a) for preservice teachers to examine their multidimensional culture; and (b) for teacher educators to assess…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Culturally Relevant Education
Mayes, Clifford – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2005
How people experience, interpret, and enact time--personally, collectively, and transcendentally--is educationally significant. One's temporal hopes and fears, limitations and potentials, are the fundamental stuff out of which is forged "the constitution of human life in time." In this article, the author offers various perspectives on individual,…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Time Perspective, Autobiographies, Spiritual Development
Rossiter, Marsha – 2002
Increasingly, adult educators are using narrative and stories for many reasons, including their deep appeal, satisfaction, and cultural transcendence. As a fundamental structure of human meaning making narrative is a valuable classroom tool in that it can enable students to understand life events, personal actions, and solidify identity formation.…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students