Your story, your life, your learning: Autobiography Reveals Basis for Supporting Personalized, Holistic Pedagogy

Authors

Michael Maser, Antioch University (Online)Follow

Publication Date

2-7-2024

Abstract

Each person ongoingly experiences the world uniquely through vital processes shaping their subjectivity, personhood and sense of self. Learning, an innate characteristic or modality of each human life, of living, likewise arises subjectively or idiosyncratically. In this paper, a phenomenological lens is applied to auto/biographical excerpts concerned with various learning experiences to help reveal essential, subjective characteristics of emergent learning. The insights help establish a basis for challenging the primacy of objectivist learning evaluations. The insights also confirm the importance of personalizing learning as a pedagogical gesture nurturing and enfranchising student learning in significant ways beyond conventional educational approaches that generally ignore subjectivity. Personalized, holistic learning is also proposed here as a solution to address many challenges and issues emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic. This paper is based on the author’s recent PhD research.

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Recommended Citation

Maser, Michael (2024) "Your story, your life, your learning: Autobiography Reveals Basis for Supporting Personalized, Holistic Pedagogy," Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education: Vol. 2: Iss. 1, Article 1.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25035/jche.02.01.01
Available at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/jche/vol2/iss1/1