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Finding a home: harnessing biographical narrative in teaching and learning in cultural geography

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posted on 2023-05-17, 18:29 authored by Boyd, B, Rall, D, Ashley, P, Laird, W, Lloyd, D
This paper describes the use of reflective biographical narrative, in postgraduate research supervision, in helping students develop their sense of place – an intellectual place – within the scholarly landscape. The example provided centres on the work of students who have found an intellectual home in cultural geography. Using planned and semi-formal conversation, a device emerging from the authors’ supervisory practices, this activity draws on the emerging tradition of reflective biographical narrative, in which biographical reflection is not merely reflection on knowledge, but a practical methodological approach to working with knowledge. We conclude that our approach provided positive learning outcomes for the students, all of who were better able to frame their research, using reflective biographical narrative, within a conscious sense of scholarly place, and to adopt such reflection as a key analytical tool in their respective research projects.

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Publication title

Coolabah

Issue

11

Pagination

187-204

ISSN

1988-5946

Department/School

School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences

Publisher

Universitat de Barcelona * Centre d'Estudis Australians

Place of publication

Spain

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Copyright 2013 The Authors

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  • Open

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Other education and training not elsewhere classified

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