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Ekaterina Arshavskaya; Nefi Reyes de la Paz – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2023
Benefits of teachers' autoethnographies are well-documented in current research. This study adds to the research literature by directly analyzing how the insights gained through writing autoethnographic essays may impact second language (L2) teachers' classrooms. To collect the data, the study incorporated autoethnographic essays into a graduate…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Masters Programs, Teaching Methods, Ethnography
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Rachel Romero – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
This paper explores the value of autoethnography in the context of student teaching and learning. The manuscript situates autoethnography within restorative and critical pedagogies and draws from students' impressions to examine how autoethnography aids in developing self-awareness, empathy, and vulnerability as emotional resiliency. Further…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Empathy, Autobiographies, Ethnography
Vera Sotirovska; Margaret Vaughn – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2023
This Element explores ways to promote critical literacy in teacher education. First, the authors define critical literacy in the context of teacher education through established theoretical frameworks and models of critical literacy pedagogy and share their collective findings on critical literacy research over the course of a decade. Building…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Teacher Education, Models, Transformative Learning
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Chen, Emma; Liu, Yina – Waikato Journal of Education, 2022
Canadian multicultural picturebooks greatly influence both children's and educators' being and becoming. Identity is closely related to our engagement with literacy practices. In this article, two researchers who immigrated from mainland China engage in autobiographical narrative inquiry, a methodology that asks the researchers to self-face, and…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Cultural Pluralism, Immigrants, Asians
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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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Wood, Craig Anthony – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2017
My purpose for conducting the critical self-reflective research described in this article was a desire to improve my effectiveness as a teacher in the field of First Peoples' education. The impetus for undertaking this research was a critical incident in my teaching career that I refer to as "My Story of Sal." Writing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Teacher Effectiveness, Autobiographies
Mc Cormack, David – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2015
In this paper I reflect on epiphany moments in teaching and learning and the ways in which writing such moments can serve both to refresh and revitalise what Palmer calls the inner landscape of the educator, while also offering opportunities to enliven pedagogy. I use the notion of the liminal disposition to position such writing as an agentic act…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Emotional Experience, Writing (Composition)
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McGregor, Catherine – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2015
A persistent and troubling trend in teacher education programmes is how gender is constructed heteronormatively. Finding ways that challenge novice teacher thinking about gender and gender identities has proven to be difficult ([Grace, A. P., and K. Wells. 2006. "The Quest for a Queer Inclusive Cultural Ethics: Setting Directions for…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Gender Issues, Social Bias, Gender Bias
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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
Moberg, Eric – Online Submission, 2006
In Alex Haley's "Autobiography of Malcolm X" (1965), Haley recounts the life of an historical personage of enduring controversy. Whether one reveres or reviles Malcolm, "X", Little, his is a fascinating story of lifelong learning. Rather than conforming to one theory, Malcolm's learning is well explained by certain theorists at certain times in…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning, Autobiographies, Teaching Methods
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Taylor, Kathleen – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
Recent discoveries about brain function explain how best practices in adult learning may lead to adult learners' developmental growth.
Descriptors: Brain, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Cognitive Processes
Brown, Kathleen M. – Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly, 2004
The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of an alternative, transformative pedagogy that may assist us in responding to the urgent call for changes in the way educational leaders are prepared and developed. Within the contextual loom of preparation programs, the two theoretical perspectives of Transformative Learning Theory and Critical…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Transformative Learning, Social Justice, Social Theories
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