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Project Time-Travel

Reflections on Learning by Revisiting Childhood School Projects

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Taking far too long to sort through papers left in my old bedroom in my Mum’s house last summer, following her death, I was drawn into reading passages and looking at drawings made in some of my old school projects. It felt as if there might be an answer there, somewhere, to questions I had yet to formulate. The opportunity to write a chapter considering how changes, transitions and transformations have informed the teacher I am now came at just this juncture.

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Diab, S. (2017). Project Time-Travel. In: Hayler, M., Moriarty, J. (eds) Self-Narrative and Pedagogy. Studies in Professional Life and Work. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-023-3_3

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