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Theorising Transformative Learning
The Power of Autoethnographic Narratives in Education
Series: - Bold Visions in Educational Research, Volume: 71
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Educational reality is weaved within stories, poems, and dialogues, as the author demonstrates his becoming of a transformative educator. Transformative learning is important for teachers to think about their practices, change their thinking, and share the stories of their experience for learnersâ empowerment.
This is an autoethnographic account of the author's experience as a transformative and transforming educator that unfolds the ways he has used ethical dilemma story pedagogy to explore interpretative and creative spaces for transformative learning, both personally and with a group of trainee teachers who take the responsibility to facilitate studentsâ learning into a purposeful path. The ethical dilemma story pedagogy provides relatable scenarios to challenge and unsettle learnersâ thought processes leading to acknowledgment of multiple viewpoints. Theorising Transformative Learning serves to help educators utilise the sociocultural contexts connected to studentsâ lives and experiences.
This is an autoethnographic account of the author's experience as a transformative and transforming educator that unfolds the ways he has used ethical dilemma story pedagogy to explore interpretative and creative spaces for transformative learning, both personally and with a group of trainee teachers who take the responsibility to facilitate studentsâ learning into a purposeful path. The ethical dilemma story pedagogy provides relatable scenarios to challenge and unsettle learnersâ thought processes leading to acknowledgment of multiple viewpoints. Theorising Transformative Learning serves to help educators utilise the sociocultural contexts connected to studentsâ lives and experiences.
Kashi Raj Pandey, Ph.D. (2018), Murdoch University, Perth, teaches English at Kathmandu University. He is the author of Writing Power (Nirantar Publication, 2007), as well as short stories, poems and travelogues about people, places, and professions, both in English and Nepali languages. His research focuses on new forms of knowing about the self, others, community, and environment while also revealing the interconnected spaces and realities that reside between cultures and people.
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 An Orientation to My Study of Transformative Learning
â1 Structure of the Book
â2 Journeying into Myself: On the Road Less Travelled
â3 A Culture of Questioning and Sharing of Thoughts
â4 Transformative Learning, Autoethnography, and Stories
â5 Seeking for a New Level of Awareness
â6 More Narratives Revisited
â7 Education, the Promising Priority of People
â8 My Move towards Developing a Constructivist Pedagogy through Ethical Dilemma Stories
â9 What Is Coming? A Book on Autoethnography and Transformative Learning
2 The Cultural Context: A Transformative Journey towards Pedagogical Commitment
â1 Some Geographical and Demographic Facts about Nepal
â2 The Undetected Energy of English in the Beginning
â3 Story One: The Leaving of Home for a New Beginning
â4 Story Two: The Wisdom of an Old Man
â5 Story Three: Everything New
â6 Story Four: My First University-Teaching Experience
â7 A Mother Speaks about Her Daughter
â8 Story Five: Who Can Make Our Classrooms More Interesting?
â9 The âIâ (Eye) in Me
â10 Volunteering with Professional Organisation
â11 Story Six: My Continued Journey towards Higher Degree Research
â12 Story Seven: A Justified Outcome
â13 A Letter to the English Language
â14 Oh English, Are You My Friend?
â15 Pedagogical Thoughtfulness
3 Ethical Dilemma Story Pedagogy in Practice: A Case Study
â1 Educating Students for Happiness
â2 Resisting âBankingâ Approaches to Pedagogy
â3 Fostering Critical Awareness
â4 Rethinking Culture and Education
â5 Honouring Home Language in the Context of English
â6 All Our Students Speak in English
â7 Promoting Emancipatory Interests in EFL Classrooms
â8 Trailing towards the Transformative Path
â9 Learning the Notes
â10 Life Moves On
â11 The Ethical Dilemma Story Method
â12 The Contextual Salience of Ethical Dilemma Stories
â13 The Dilemma of Life and How We Live
â14 The Dilemma of Leaving Home
â15 Ethical Components in Classroom Teaching
â16 A Transformative Touch I Often Imagine
â17 A Teacherâs Guide to Ethical Dilemma Story Pedagogy
â18 The Use of Ethical Dilemma Stories in Transformative Pedagogy
â19 My Fieldwork Implications of Ethical Dilemma Story Pedagogy
4 Mapping the Nature of Ethical Dilemma Stories and Transformative Learning
â1 Personal Reflection as a Transformative Learner
â2 A Transformative Pedagogy through Autoethnographic Narratives
â3 A Penultimate Breather: Some Reflections on My Journey into a Transformative Pedagogy
Coda
References
Index
Acknowledgements
1 An Orientation to My Study of Transformative Learning
â1 Structure of the Book
â2 Journeying into Myself: On the Road Less Travelled
â3 A Culture of Questioning and Sharing of Thoughts
â4 Transformative Learning, Autoethnography, and Stories
â5 Seeking for a New Level of Awareness
â6 More Narratives Revisited
â7 Education, the Promising Priority of People
â8 My Move towards Developing a Constructivist Pedagogy through Ethical Dilemma Stories
â9 What Is Coming? A Book on Autoethnography and Transformative Learning
2 The Cultural Context: A Transformative Journey towards Pedagogical Commitment
â1 Some Geographical and Demographic Facts about Nepal
â2 The Undetected Energy of English in the Beginning
â3 Story One: The Leaving of Home for a New Beginning
â4 Story Two: The Wisdom of an Old Man
â5 Story Three: Everything New
â6 Story Four: My First University-Teaching Experience
â7 A Mother Speaks about Her Daughter
â8 Story Five: Who Can Make Our Classrooms More Interesting?
â9 The âIâ (Eye) in Me
â10 Volunteering with Professional Organisation
â11 Story Six: My Continued Journey towards Higher Degree Research
â12 Story Seven: A Justified Outcome
â13 A Letter to the English Language
â14 Oh English, Are You My Friend?
â15 Pedagogical Thoughtfulness
3 Ethical Dilemma Story Pedagogy in Practice: A Case Study
â1 Educating Students for Happiness
â2 Resisting âBankingâ Approaches to Pedagogy
â3 Fostering Critical Awareness
â4 Rethinking Culture and Education
â5 Honouring Home Language in the Context of English
â6 All Our Students Speak in English
â7 Promoting Emancipatory Interests in EFL Classrooms
â8 Trailing towards the Transformative Path
â9 Learning the Notes
â10 Life Moves On
â11 The Ethical Dilemma Story Method
â12 The Contextual Salience of Ethical Dilemma Stories
â13 The Dilemma of Life and How We Live
â14 The Dilemma of Leaving Home
â15 Ethical Components in Classroom Teaching
â16 A Transformative Touch I Often Imagine
â17 A Teacherâs Guide to Ethical Dilemma Story Pedagogy
â18 The Use of Ethical Dilemma Stories in Transformative Pedagogy
â19 My Fieldwork Implications of Ethical Dilemma Story Pedagogy
4 Mapping the Nature of Ethical Dilemma Stories and Transformative Learning
â1 Personal Reflection as a Transformative Learner
â2 A Transformative Pedagogy through Autoethnographic Narratives
â3 A Penultimate Breather: Some Reflections on My Journey into a Transformative Pedagogy
Coda
References
Index
The primary readers of this book are practising teachers, teacher educators, writers and educationists; the unique feature of this work lies on how transformative learning is important for teachers to think about their practices, change their thinking, and share the stories of their experience for learnersâ empowerment.