How ideas of transformative learning can inform academic blogging
This paper looks at blogging by academics and argues that there is a niche role for an academic blog informed by principles of transformative learning. I begin by describing my experiences of blogging, first, as a reader while carrying out my own doctoral research, next, as a teacher introducing blo...
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| description | This paper looks at blogging by academics and argues that there is a niche role for an academic blog informed by principles of transformative learning. I begin by describing my experiences of blogging, first, as a reader while carrying out my own doctoral research, next, as a teacher introducing blogs to my students, then as a writer of my own journal blog. I suggest that transformative learning principles provide a frame of reference for understanding these experiences, in particular, by offering an idea of autonomy which puts subjective experience in social contexts. I then suggest that academics interested in transformative learning might learn a more engaging style of writing from bloggers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2a29c0197ce64bf4b49f8332c7bf9d6a2024-01-22T07:04:34ZengSciendoInternational Journal for Transformative Research2353-54152016-07-0131334010.1515/ijtr-2016-0006ijtr-2016-0006How ideas of transformative learning can inform academic bloggingHammond Michael0Centre for Education Studies, Room B1.39, Social Science Building, University of Warwick, UKThis paper looks at blogging by academics and argues that there is a niche role for an academic blog informed by principles of transformative learning. I begin by describing my experiences of blogging, first, as a reader while carrying out my own doctoral research, next, as a teacher introducing blogs to my students, then as a writer of my own journal blog. I suggest that transformative learning principles provide a frame of reference for understanding these experiences, in particular, by offering an idea of autonomy which puts subjective experience in social contexts. I then suggest that academics interested in transformative learning might learn a more engaging style of writing from bloggers.https://doi.org/10.1515/ijtr-2016-0006bloggingfreiremezirowliteracytransformative learning |
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