HIGH POINT, N.C., Oct. 11, 2011 – Marjorie Church, instructor of English at High Point University, recently co-authored an article that is scheduled to be published in the 2011 Yearbook of the South Atlantic Philosophy of Education Society, a peer-reviewed journal.
The article, titled “Out in Class: The Intentional Use of Self-Disclosure to Promote Transformative Educational Experiences,” was co-authored with Dr. Jay Poole,
Assistant Professor of Social Work at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The two presented the article at the 2010 SAPE Convention in Greensboro.
The article explores a personal account of how being open about transformative experiences can impact the learning environment, including the students, instructor and colleagues. The paper gives examples about how sharing such experiences in class impacts learning.
“My work on this article was inspired by my own teaching experience here at HPU,” says Church. “I have found over the years that many students in classes where I shared stories about my own transformative experiences in life have been much more responsive and engaged in the classroom than those classes where I did not share my own stories. These are personal narratives that I have related to students when they were relevant to the subject matter being discussed.”
Church and Poole have also written another article, titled “Making the Personal Political in the Classroom; Possibilities for Activist Pedagogies,” which they will present at the 2011 SAPE Convention in Richmond, Va.
Church is a graduate student currently working toward a doctorate in education studies and cultural foundations.
At High Point University, every student receives an extraordinary education in an inspiring environment with caring people.℠ HPU, located in the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina, is a liberal arts institution with over 4,200 undergraduate and graduate students from 51 countries and 46 states at campuses in High Point and Winston-Salem. It is ranked by US News and World Report at No. 3 among Regional Colleges in the South. Forbes.com ranks HPU in the top 7 percent among “America’s Best Colleges.” Parade Magazine lists HPU in the top 25 private schools in the nation. HPU was selected in the 2010-2011 list of “Colleges of Distinction,” as well as one of the top green schools in the country by the Sierra Club. The university offers 50 undergraduate majors, 43 undergraduate minors and 10 graduate degree programs. It is accredited by the Commission of Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and is a member of the NCAA, Division I and the Big South Conference. Visit High Point University on the Web at highpoint.edu.
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