Self-Narrative and Pedagogy

Stories of Experience within Teaching and Learning

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In this book, teachers from a variety of backgrounds reflect upon their journeys into and within teaching to discuss the impact of their diverse experiences on the ways in which they teach. The authors adopt a variety of autoethnographic approaches in telling stories of transition and profound transformation as they each discuss how certain events in their lives have shaped their professional identities and methods of teaching. In telling their stories they also tell stories of the culture and process of education. This offers the opportunity to consider the narratives as examples of how individuals and groups respond in different ways to institutional and national policies on education. In these chapters, the authors offer illumination from a number of perspectives, of how practitioners of education make meaning of their lives and work in our changing times.
By capturing these personal stories, this book will inform and support readers who are studying to become teachers and those already working in education by developing their understanding and empathy with the role.
Autoethnography can develop self-knowledge and understanding in the reader and writer of such texts, offering unique insights and individual ways of being that will benefit students and staff in a range of educational settings. This book values the telling and sharing of stories as a strategy for enabling teachers to learn from one another and help them to feel more supported.
The book will be useful for teachers and teacher educators, students of education, and all researchers interested in autoethnography and self-narrative.

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Thirty Two Ways to Tell a Story of Teaching
Self-Narrative and Pedagogy
Pages: 1–13
Project Time-Travel
Reflections on Learning by Revisiting Childhood School Projects
Pages: 31–44
Toilets Are the Proper Place for ‘Outputs’!
A Tale of Knowledge Production and Publishing with Students in Higher Education
Pages: 45–57
Worms, Birds and Rabbits – Pigs and Dragons
Thoughts on Teaching and Learning
Pages: 83–94
Reframing Identity
Exploring My Pedagogy through Memories of the Past
Pages: 95–107
Odyssey of the Soul
My Journey into Teaching
Pages: 123–134
Soaring and Tumbling
An Autoethnography from Higher Education
Pages: 135–146
About the Authors
Pages: 147–148
Educational Researchers and their students
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