Authoring our culture : using narrative to explore the student-learner's understanding of self within the educative relationship

Abstract

This study was interested in looking into the life and experience of ordinary teenaged secondary students and set out to discover their themes of self and the place of these themes within the educative relationship. This was neither an advocacy nor interest driven study in regards to the population, the interest being solely in recognizing the secondary student as a life with self and experience that could and should have an influence on the knowledge at play within the classroom. In regards to a contribution to knowledge, the research offers the connection between this ordinary population and their themes of self and the student-teacher-knowledge triad in both a theoretical and practice-based manner.