Journal of Education and Research

Making of a Good Teacher: Transformative Expressions of Inner Life in Education Narratives of Living, Being and Knowing Together
Gaurav Ojha 1 *
More Detail
1 School of Education, Kathmandu University, Lalitpur, Nepal* Corresponding Author
Original Article

Journal of Education and Research, Volume 7, Issue 2, 2017, 43-53, https://doi.org/10.3126/jer.v7i2.21246

Publication date: Aug 15, 2017

Views: 29 | Downloads: 25

How to cite this article
APA
In-text citation: (Ojha, 2017)
Reference: Ojha, G. (2017). Making of a Good Teacher: Transformative Expressions of Inner Life in Education Narratives of Living, Being and Knowing Together. Journal of Education and Research, 7(2), 43-53. https://doi.org/10.3126/jer.v7i2.21246
Vancouver
In-text citation: (1), (2), (3), etc.
Reference: Ojha G. Making of a Good Teacher: Transformative Expressions of Inner Life in Education Narratives of Living, Being and Knowing Together. Journal of Education and Research. 2017;7(2):43-53. https://doi.org/10.3126/jer.v7i2.21246
AMA
In-text citation: (1), (2), (3), etc.
Reference: Ojha G. Making of a Good Teacher: Transformative Expressions of Inner Life in Education Narratives of Living, Being and Knowing Together. Journal of Education and Research. 2017;7(2), 43-53. https://doi.org/10.3126/jer.v7i2.21246
Chicago
In-text citation: (Ojha, 2017)
Reference: Ojha, Gaurav. "Making of a Good Teacher: Transformative Expressions of Inner Life in Education Narratives of Living, Being and Knowing Together". Journal of Education and Research 2017 7 no. 2 (2017): 43-53. https://doi.org/10.3126/jer.v7i2.21246
Harvard
In-text citation: (Ojha, 2017)
Reference: Ojha, G. (2017). Making of a Good Teacher: Transformative Expressions of Inner Life in Education Narratives of Living, Being and Knowing Together. Journal of Education and Research, 7(2), pp. 43-53. https://doi.org/10.3126/jer.v7i2.21246
MLA
In-text citation: (Ojha, 2017)
Reference: Ojha, Gaurav "Making of a Good Teacher: Transformative Expressions of Inner Life in Education Narratives of Living, Being and Knowing Together". Journal of Education and Research, vol. 7, no. 2, 2017, pp. 43-53. https://doi.org/10.3126/jer.v7i2.21246
ABSTRACT
This research paper recollects transformative expressions of inner life in education using expressive language to reconstruct experiential narratives of educators following on with collaborative turn as encouraged in qualitative research. Similarly, this paper reflects on transformative expressions of inner life in education by putting together first person monologues of educators, generated through dialogues. This paper, in addition, reveals their lived pedagogical experiences, their stories, hopes, courage, convictions, creativity and struggles in an education system where educators are most often encouraged to suppress their inner self, somewhere clandestine rather than share the relational richness of their inner life with students. Besides, the paper argues that good teaching takes its reference from inner landscape of an educator. My research participants are aware that by making a difference in their inner life and by infusing transformative orientations of their inner life within their educational practices, they can also make a difference in the lives of their students. They are able to sustain transformative interpersonal relationships with their students, which encourage them to live a life of self-awareness, freedom, character, joy, appreciation, acceptance and creativity. Finally, the paper ends with a realisation that inner life of an educator, including his/her compassion, courage, concern and care, serves as a guiding force for a meaningful relationship that creates transformative possibilities in education.
KEYWORDS
REFERENCES
---
LICENSE