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Who am I when I teach? When I teach I find myself saying things in ways that reveal new insights to me, as I had not thought of them in those ways until I needed to put them into words so as to best explain them. When I teach I forget myself, in the sense that I forget to be self-conscious, and I feel as if I am outside or beyond time whilst being totally immersed in what I am doing to the point that I become one with it.
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Ferrara, H. (2017). Authentic Teaching. In: Wiebe, S., Lyle, E., Wright, P.R., Dark, K., McLarnon, M., Day, L. (eds) Ways of Being in Teaching. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-092-9_4
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