Academia from the Inside

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Foreword/Introduction

   • Maureen P. Hall, Aubrie K. Brault, Libby Falk Jones, Steven Willis

   Pages 1-21

3. Pursuing Authenticity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Risking Being Yourself: Owning Your Identity Within the Academic Framework

      • Aminda J. O’Hare

      Pages 25-45

   3. Living Divided No More: Cultivating My Own Forest Biome in Academia

      • Maureen P. Hall

      Pages 47-72

   4. A ‘World in Between’: A Reflection on Teaching and Learning

      • Aubrie K. Brault

      Pages 73-92

   5. Embracing Otherness in the Self that Teaches

      • Elizabeth Bifuh-Ambe

      Pages 93-118

4. Creating Creative Community

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. ‘Going Out into the World to Find Wonders’: Nature as a Source of Generation, Regeneration, and Community

      • Libby Falk Jones

      Pages 121-148

   3. The Self Who Teaches and Learns: Sharing the Space After a Disaster

      • Billy O’Steen

      Pages 149-168

   4. Holding the Space: A Teacher Educator’s Poetic Representations of Pre-service Teachers Acts of Self-Care

      • Narelle Lemon

      Pages 169-193

   5. Dancing with the Other: Esthetic Experience and Ethical Responsiveness in an Education for the Self Becoming

      • Paul Moerman

      Pages 195-214

5. Humanizing Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215

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   2. ‘The Wound is Where the Light Enters’: Bringing our Impure, Journeying Selves into our Teaching

      • Agnes B. Curry

      Pages 217-245

   3. Who Am I?: Relational Pedagogies for Fostering Creativity and Reflective Practice

      • Bronwen Wade-Leeuwen, Kath McLachlan

      Pages 247-274

   4. Law School: Imbuing It with Both Rigor and Support

      • Justine A. Dunlap

      Pages 275-299

   5. Embodied Education at Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya: Narratives from the Field on How a University in Northern India Is Transforming Students

      • Danielle C. Johansen, Maureen P. Hall

      Pages 301-328

6. Back Matter

   Pages 329-337

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This book invites readers to explore how fourteen different experts in their respective fields create deeper meaning in their profession and work with students through thinking, in multiple ways, about the self who teaches, the self who learns, and the ways in which these selves interact within the academy. Essays in this book explore the “inside” of academia through three themes: Pursuing Authenticity, Creating Creative Community, and Humanizing Education. Contributors reflect on their own lived experiences in the academy and on pedagogies that they have created for their students. Embodied education, the theoretical framework of this book, draws on ideas of educators Parker Palmer from the West and Dr. Chinmay Pandya from the East, emerging through contributors’ collaborative work. In embodied education, teachers and learners share experiences that lead to self-understanding and together find ways to humanize spaces in academia.

• teacher identity
• teaching and learning
• SoTL
• Art Education
• STEM education

“As this era of social reckonings has made clear, all of our major institutions—especially education—stand in urgent need of transformation if we are to create a world that works for everyone. Here’s a blueprint for that transformation. Written by a collective of dedicated and experienced educators, the essays in this volume offer much more than a hopeful vision. Instead, they tell embodied stories of personal agency that move from reclaiming our identity and integrity as educators, to creating community with colleagues, to taking action together. Transforming academia ‘from the inside out’ is a route to the kind of change that matters and that endures. This book will take us closer to that goal.” (Parker J. Palmer, author of The Courage to Teach, A Hidden Wholeness, and Healing the Heart of Democracy)

• University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, USA

  Maureen P. Hall, Aubrie K. Brault

Maureen P. Hall is Professor of Education and Teacher-Educator at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA. In her research and teaching, she explores the intersections between and among literacies, Social Emotional Learning (SEL), and mindfulness, and has published two books and more than twenty peer-reviewed journal articles and edited chapters.

Aubrie K. Brault works as a Senior Instructional Designer, developing mobile and desktop educational training solutions in the healthtech sector. Her publications include pieces in Ubiquity and the UMassD Magazine. She is one of the founders of “Arnie's Cupboard," the food pantry responding to food insecurity within the UMass Dartmouth community.