Teacher as learner: a personal reflection on a short course for South African university educators
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Date
2013
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Taylor & Francis
Abstract
Higher education is understood to play a critical role in ongoing processes of
social transformation in post-apartheid South Africa through the production
of graduates who are critical and engaged citizens. A key challenge is that
institutions of higher education are themselves implicated in reproducing the
very hierarchies they hope to transform. In this paper, I reflect critically on my
experiences of a course aimed at transforming teaching through transforming
teachers. In this paper, I foreground my own positionality as a white female
educator as I draw on feminist theorising to reflect on my experiences as a learner
in the Community, Self and Identity course. I suggest that we need to teach in
ways that are more cognisant of the complexities of the constraints on personal
freedom in the past if we are to contribute to the development of social justice in
the future.
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Feminist theory, Social transformation, Teaching practice, Identity, South Africa
Citation
Clowes, L. (2013). Teacher as learner: a personal reflection on a short course for South African university educators. Teaching in Higher Education, 18(7): 709-720