Persona Pedegogy
I misunderstood persona pedagogy to begin with thinking that it would be related to the signature pedagogy in TTP and started off really interested until the pages started to sink in and then as it went on it started to irritate me… and as I read more i found it hypocritical… I may have misunderstood and reserve the right to revisit the paper at a later date!
Safeguarding is a very hot topic in my household…. pioneers like Crenshaw, advocates like Ade Adepitan, Christine Sun Kim, Chay Brown and ME, endeavour to communicate their lived experience or that of others to assist learning and so hopefully improvements in systems and policies can be made but Thomas 2022 suggests using a persona pedagogy to safeguard identity. I could attach police reports and witness statements here about how abusers can use adopt personas to emotionally and physically torment their victims but I wont. I will raise my head above the parapet and advocate for authenticity, however hard it may be in new safe and brave spaces where all people are acknowledged and their opinions taken into count.
For starters “experiences another’s lived experience expanding understanding of difference… “
authentically how can you experience another’s lived experience?
then to assume a persona to experience another’s lived experience?… please…. I do not yet have the words….
Not required to reveal self lived experience – can self protect….
there is no requirement for anyone to disclose anything however in my experience I have found sharing my situation and acknowledging the barriers I face to be helpful and hopefully in doing so I have open doors for more support for people who face a similar situation to my self. This is something I choose to do, I choose how much information I share. I could choose for self protection to share nothing… however assuming a persona to empathise with or enable transformative learning is something at the moment I do not have the capacity to do hence the reason I will sign up to further empirical research required….