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Narratives in the Classroom: Integrating Fiction and Autobiography as Impetus for Transformative Learning
Type of Presentation
Workshop (60-75 minutes)
Session Abstract
This hands-on workshop will introduce transformative learning theory and critical reflection then guide participants through a fictional story followed by an autobiographical exercise, ending with applications to real-world problems.
Target Audience
This workshop is designed for educators looking for an instructional process that encourages deep learning and critical reflection, applicable in both online and face-to-face formats.
Learning Outcomes
Attendees will participate in a narrative process that encourages perspective shifts on the part of their adult students. Along the way, participants will better understand how critical reflection can begin with guided fiction, move through autobiography, and conclude with application to real world issue(s). Participants will leave this workshop equipped to integrate this strategy into their own teaching context.
Session Description
As the conference theme attests, lifelong learning is a necessity if we hope to be able to address the grand challenges facing society. Further, the type of learning that will likely be most helpful is that which results in deep, fundamental shifts in learners’ ways of thinking and being in the world. Transformative learning theory addresses this type of learning. Two interrelated strategies that can promote transformative learning are the reading of fiction and the writing of autobiographical stories.
This workshop will demonstrate how these two processes can be interwoven in a learning activity designed to promote deep introspection while encouraging more complex ways of thinking and being.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
No preference
Primary Presenter
Chad Hoggan, Ed.D., North Carolina State University
Work Title
Assistant Professor
Additional Presenters: Enters In Order.
Kathy Lohr, Ed.D., North Carolina State University
Work Title
Adjunct Assistant Professor