(Fall 2016-Spring 2017)
I have the privilege to walk beside you during this reflective and introspective journey as you look more closely at yourself, practice and learner in your classroom with your students. This is a liberating time for you to explore your professional practice independently, collectively,, reflexively, and creatively.
Please mark your calendar for Friday, October 24 from 9:00am-3:30pm. You will be sharing your Oral Inquiry Proposal Presentation at the main campus to your committee members. Please arrange your leave with your school principal.
Your coach, fan, advocate & guide
Frances
The power of story becomes essential as a teacher researcher:
Story is another word we all understand in context without being able to put a precise meaning to it. Stories usually but not inevitably involve location, landscapes, protagonists, intentions, emotions, conflicts, obstacles, struggles, and consequences (which always lead into new stories.) These are elements we always look for in any situation in which we are involved. (Frank Smith in To Think, 1990, p. 63)
"Critical reflection is matter of stance and dance. Our stance is one of inquiry. We see it as a constant formation and always needing further investigation. Our dance is the dance of experimentation and risk" (Brookfield, 1995, p. 42 as cited in Allen, 2009, A Sense of Belonging, p. 20).
Seminar Readings, Intellectual History, Teacher Reflections & Vignettes below.
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