Humility in High School: Professional Learning and Well-Being Practice

• In Event: Research In Progress Roundtables Session 4
  In Invited Roundtable: Understanding the Student Experience in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Career Development, Humility, and Writing Experiences (Table 11)

Abstract

Given the last decade’s advancements in the research in the field of humility, a university in Northern Australia and one of the high schools in Northeast America collaborated to explore how humility can be used as a pedagogical tool in contemporary educational spaces. The study employed Participatory Action Research and used multiple qualitative data collection methods. Thematic coding was deployed to analyze the data. Preliminary findings suggest that the development of practices of humility demands rigorous understanding of the conceptualizations of humility and subdomains to confidently engage with the strangeness associated with the teaching of humility and meticulously devise and design lessons using various pedagogical strategies and teaching methodologies. The study suggests implications for future research, training, policy, and teacher education.

Authors

• Shelly Rampal, Charles Darwin University

• Sue Erica Smith, Charles Darwin University