Crafting Peace Through Autoethnography: Reflexive Pedagogies for Navigating Difficult Times

by Susan Mossman Riva

Overview

In Crafting Peace Through Autoethnography: Reflexive Pedagogies for Navigating Difficult Times, Dr. Riva shares her autoethnographic method that employs a transformational pedagogy for conflict resolution and peace studies. Riva recollects her autoethnographic process, connecting her theoretical framework to lived experience. The transformagram learning model is presented as a stepwise approach with a scaffolded template. Students’ transformagram portfolios are showcased, offering examples of the transformational process.

Conflict narratives emerge from autoethnographic and duoethnographic methods that become tools for activating the inner compass, providing directionality for homing in to better-formed storylines and potential flyways. In this creative and reflexive space, story mandalas shapeshift, opening a transformational passageway. Conflict wisdom is enkindled through narrative conflict resolution approaches that increase connectivity and narrative coherency, giving rise to mediatorship.

The transformagram learning model provides a pedagogy that accompanies students as they navigate difficult times. Ample theories, stories, and examples provide peace study scholar practitioners with a model that can be applied to traditional higher education classrooms as well as online learning platforms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781837085477
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date:	05/19/2025
Series:	Peace Education
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

Susan Mossman Riva teaches conflict resolution at Creighton University, USA, in the Department of Cultural and Social Studies within the medical anthropology program.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Homing in to Peacemaking
Chapter 2. The Transformative Power of Radical Amazement
Chapter 3. Building the Commons
Chapter 4. Developing Directionality Through Autoethnographic Methods
Chapter 5. Quest Orientation
Chapter 6. Following the Mazeway
Chapter 7. Flying Through the Window When the Door is Locked or Closed
Chapter 8. Questing for the “Good Life”
Chapter 9. A Cartography of Flyways
Chapter 10. Transformagrams: A Tool for the Anthropology of Becoming
Chapter 11. Designing Mandalas of Wholeness Through Accompaniment
Chapter 12. Shapeshifting Life-o-Grams into Transformagrams
Chapter 13. Crafting Online Learning Communities
Chapter 14. Developing Ethical Frameworks Through Moral Imagination
Chapter 15. Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky
Chapter 16. Storying New Ways to Live in/on Earthship
Chapter 17. Homeplaces
Chapter 18. Passing on the Golden Pocket Watch Through Higher Education
Chapter 19. Chapter Transforming Conflict Narratives
Chapter 20. Embodying Peace Through Service