{"id":5030,"date":"2025-06-19T22:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T22:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/on-becoming-contemplative-academic-development-practitioners-reflections-through-collaborative-autoethnography\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T03:19:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T03:19:56","slug":"on-becoming-contemplative-academic-development-practitioners-reflections-through-collaborative-autoethnography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/on-becoming-contemplative-academic-development-practitioners-reflections-through-collaborative-autoethnography\/","title":{"rendered":"On \u2018Becoming\u2019 Contemplative Academic Development Practitioners: Reflections through Collaborative Autoethnography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: <strong>On \u2018Becoming\u2019 Contemplative Academic Development Practitioners: Reflections through Collaborative Autoethnography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Article Link: <a href='https:\/\/journals.dut.ac.za\/index.php\/ajims\/article\/view\/1296' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF: <a href='https:\/\/journals.dut.ac.za\/index.php\/ajims\/article\/view\/1296\/956' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Click Here to Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>Theonslaught of COVID-19 heralded a turn in higher education as society has begun to question the purpose, values and practices of higher education. COVID-19 presented the unique opportunity to re-imagine and re-envision how one conceptualises the roles and responsibilities of academic development practitioners. How are they responding to their own evolving selves, their environmental cues, and shaping the shifts of redirection within higher education?\u00a0 In this article, we draw from two research traditions to examine the processes of re-imagining academic developers\u2019 becoming: contemplative pedagogy and collective autoethnography. In our data collection, we use the concurrent model in autoethnography as we draw on personal memory data, archival materials, self-observation, self-reflection, self-analysis and interviews with each other. This contributed to a thick description of our personal and professional lives and practices. We show how these collective research traditions and approaches provided nuanced understandings of the role of place and space in evolving academic development in higher education. This article argues for the value of a contemplative autoethnography as an approach to transforming academic development practices, particularly in providing insight into professional development, identity and personal experience.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Rosaline Govender (Durban University of Technology, South Africa)<\/li>\n<li>Delysia Timm (Durban University of Technology, South Africa)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>autoethnography, contemplative pedagogy, reflection, professional development, academic development<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: On \u2018Becoming\u2019 Contemplative Academic Development Practitioners: Reflections through Collaborative Autoethnography Original Article Link: Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[1559,2153,1556,1557,1558,1373],"class_list":["post-5030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-academic-development","tag-ajims","tag-autoethnography","tag-contemplative-pedagogy","tag-professional-development","tag-reflection","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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