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This chapter recounts aspects of my introductory lecture to my Bachelor of Education students at the University of Ballarat (UB). The lecture is intended in part to begin a process designed to encourage students both to question their own and others’ assumptions regarding the nature of educational success, and to re-evaluate their own academic potential, for the better. The chapter begins with a brief discussion on the prevailing educational paradigm by virtue of which both learners and education providers are effectively deemed to be primarily engaged in a commercial transaction, with learning the commodity being purchased. By way of challenging that paradigm I then embark on something of an “auto-ethnographic” journey (Ellis, Adams & Bochner, 2011) to account for my own educational experiences and how they are relevant to the future educators I teach today.
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Wilson, J.Z. (2013). Educational Dissonance. In: Pedagogies for the Future. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-278-5_12
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