This project explores the relationship between selfhood, age, education, and time through a series of personal essays and reflections (‘confessions’). The writing is based on the assumption that each of us--in defining our selfhood--use our personal and interpersonal connections with others, with family, friends and peers, and teachers, to know ourselves and to reflect critically on our experiences. I also explore in this writing how the educational norms and practices I have experienced have shaped (and unshaped) my developmental pathways, including the tendency to take a nostalgic lens and the somewhat relentless engagement in self-critical thinking and practices. The essays conclude with my advocacy for greater integration of personal re...
"We teach who we are" (Palmer, 1998, p. 2). This simple, yet profound, statement was the catalyst t...
As a self-reflective method of inquiry, currere, and by extension autobiographical work, engage with...
A few years ago I shifted my work in teacher education to place a central emphasis on the role of pe...
In this dissertation I track ways that actively bringing the self to academic work for students, tea...
The stories of our lives are important. They are a fundamental way in which we know ourselves and ar...
The stories of our lives are important. They are a fundamental way in which we know ourselves and ar...
A discussion of how humans have conceptualised ideas of self and relationships with others, applying...
This article discusses a process of self-inquiry that took the form of a narrative journey of transf...
This thesis examines my life-history and how it has impacted my teaching practices in my Grade 6 cla...
"We teach who we are " (Palmer, 1998, p. 2). This simple, yet profound, statement was the ...
This thesis represents a self study inquiry into my work as coordinator and individual support teach...
This autoethnographic paper explores my role as a teacher-learner. Who am I as a teacher? How has my...
This paper suggests possible ways for teachers to develop students’ personal meaning in public schoo...
How might study of the self illuminate and inspire social action? Making Connections: Self-Study & S...
Curriculum StudiesThis research uses a case study approach and includes six-fifth grade students inv...
"We teach who we are" (Palmer, 1998, p. 2). This simple, yet profound, statement was the catalyst t...
As a self-reflective method of inquiry, currere, and by extension autobiographical work, engage with...
A few years ago I shifted my work in teacher education to place a central emphasis on the role of pe...
In this dissertation I track ways that actively bringing the self to academic work for students, tea...
The stories of our lives are important. They are a fundamental way in which we know ourselves and ar...
The stories of our lives are important. They are a fundamental way in which we know ourselves and ar...
A discussion of how humans have conceptualised ideas of self and relationships with others, applying...
This article discusses a process of self-inquiry that took the form of a narrative journey of transf...
This thesis examines my life-history and how it has impacted my teaching practices in my Grade 6 cla...
"We teach who we are " (Palmer, 1998, p. 2). This simple, yet profound, statement was the ...
This thesis represents a self study inquiry into my work as coordinator and individual support teach...
This autoethnographic paper explores my role as a teacher-learner. Who am I as a teacher? How has my...
This paper suggests possible ways for teachers to develop students’ personal meaning in public schoo...
How might study of the self illuminate and inspire social action? Making Connections: Self-Study & S...
Curriculum StudiesThis research uses a case study approach and includes six-fifth grade students inv...
"We teach who we are" (Palmer, 1998, p. 2). This simple, yet profound, statement was the catalyst t...
As a self-reflective method of inquiry, currere, and by extension autobiographical work, engage with...
A few years ago I shifted my work in teacher education to place a central emphasis on the role of pe...