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Both Sides Now

A Deconstruction of Understanding and Misunderstanding

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The Vulnerability of Teaching and Learning in a Selfie Society

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One of the questions that intrigued us (the authors of this case) about participating in an arts-based self-study was how ten colleagues from different disciplines, positions, authority, and years of experience in higher education collaborated as equal peers. We wonder, in retrospect, how we went about engaging in this organic process without defined structures and procedures that were new to most of us.

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Beverly, C., Foucar-Szocki, D. (2016). Both Sides Now. In: The Vulnerability of Teaching and Learning in a Selfie Society. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-812-9_9

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