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West, Linden – Journal of Transformative Education, 2014
In this article, I interrogate the changing forms that may be fundamental to transformative learning and how these are best chronicled and understood. Drawing on auto/biographical narrative research, I challenge the continuing primacy of a kind of overly disembodied, decontextualized cognition as the basis of transformation. Notions of epistemic…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Recognition (Psychology), Autobiographies, Personal Narratives
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Nordstrom, Alicia H. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
This study examined the impact of an assignment involving intergroup contact (The Voices Project [TVP]) on student racism toward Muslims, African Americans, Asians, and Hispanics in Introduction to Psychology. TVP students interviewed members from racial groups and wrote autobiographical memoirs of their lives. A faculty-writing team integrated…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, White Students, Psychology, Racial Attitudes
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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