Fostering Relational Pedagogy: Self-Study as Transformative Praxis

It has long been established that teaching and learning are autobiographical endeavours, so it follows that self-study is central to sound practice. Maintaining, too, that we must know self to meaningfully engage with our students, this symposiumaims to raise awareness of the capacity of self-study to support transformational praxis. This transformation is sought through integrated ways of being and teaching that support embodied wholeness of teachers and learners. Throughcritical, qualitative, creative, and arts-integrated approaches,multiple Education scholars from international contexts profile various approaches to self-study that simultaneously support improved praxis and increased rigour of S-STEP.