Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Date of this Version
2007
Document Type
Article
Citation
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (2007) 25
doi: 10.3998/tia.17063888.0025.023
Abstract
The University of Minnesota’s faculty development project, “Making Meaning of a Life in Teaching,” promotes collegiality and enhances self-reflection for those who are cxperienced classroom instructors. Started in October. 2003, this project provides a forum that invites participants to examine specific memories from their teaching lives and to transform those recollections into a written memoir. This chapter explores the use of memoir as an effective tool for faculty development, describes the project’s structure and components, and presents both co-facilitator and participant perspectives on the process and the memoir product.
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License: CC BY-NC-ND