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Critical reflection through personal pronoun analysis (Critical Analysis) to identify and individualise teacher professional development

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posted on 2021-01-22, 04:56 authored by Jacolyn WellerJacolyn Weller
© 2018, © 2018 Teacher Development. A central part of teacher education is critical reflection. To engage with the new–embrace change–is inherently difficult. The solution is teacher control of change. Those who embrace change, or not, are identified in their language. Pronoun analysis situates a teacher and determines areas of discomfort for change. Particular personal pronouns are evident when one is connected to, or distanced from, an artefact. This provides an avenue to individualise and pinpoint professional development (PD) requirements. Compared to traditional PD, this is efficient as it targets areas of discomfort for professional learning. Ideally, a teacher experiments with the new, indicates confidence and presents expertise to enable transmission into teaching. In this article, I illustrate how pronoun analysis was applied through interview data where science teachers were engaged in a discourse of Information Communication Technology integration. From this prior research data, a case is presented for individualised language analysis to direct PD. When a teacher is the active agent who self-analyses his or her own discomfort, an ownership pathway for directed proactive learning is created that goes beyond critical reflection into the new domain of critical analysis.

History

Publication Date

2019-01-01

Journal

Teacher Development

Volume

23

Issue

1

Article Number

9

Pagination

16p. (p. 139-154)

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1747-5120

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