Breaking Through the Shell of the Lesser Self: A Duoethnographic Exploration of Human Revolution

• In Event: 58.083 - Roundtable Session 26
  In Roundtable Session: 58.083-16 - Theory in Action: An Exploration of Self and Boundaries

Abstract

In this study, the authors engage in a dialogic investigation using duoethnography (Norris & Sawyer, 2012) to unpack and find new meanings in Daisaku Ikeda’s (2010) concept of human revolution. The informal curriculum of the lived experience of human revolution, a conscious and volitional effort to increase one’s wisdom, courage, and compassion through self-mastery (Goulah, 2012), is explored through the lens of Thayer-Bacon’s (2003) relational (e)pistemology. External challenges, caring relationships, and a shift in locating the source of change from external circumstances to a transformation within were found to be critical factors in their narratives of human revolution. The authors conclude by suggesting that human revolution presents an alternative to Euro-western knower-known duality that could foster teacher epistemological agency.

Authors

• Melissa Riley Bradford, DePaul University

• Julie Nagashima, Arizona State University