A pathway to self-awareness, empathy and vulnerability

Exploring autoethnography as a method for undergraduate teaching

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ID21691651
AuthorsRachel Romero (0000-0003-1145-2320, Texas State University, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume30
Issue2
Pages412-426
Publication date2025-02-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTeaching in Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1356-2517 • E-ISSN: 1470-1294
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13562517.2024.2332269
OpenAlexW4393142878
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited48

This paper explores the value of autoethnography in the context of student teaching and learning. The manuscript situates autoethnography within restorative and critical pedagogies and draws from students’ impressions to examine how autoethnography aids in developing self-awareness, empathy, and vulnerability as emotional resiliency. Further discussion brings attention to the potential of autoethnography for prompting the sociological imagination, igniting transformative learning, and engaging cultural therapy to promote cultural awareness and equity of learning opportunity

Autoethnography · Empathy · Medical education · Pedagogy · Sociology · Teaching method · Adult and Continuing Education Topics · Computer Science · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Empathy and Medical Education · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology

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