scholarly journals Intra-acciones en el aprender de docentes de infantil, primaria y secundaria

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2 Jul-Oct) ◽  
pp. 115-140
Author(s):  
Juana María Sancho-Gil ◽  
José Miguel Correa-Gorospe

En este artículo, desde la perspectiva de los nuevos materialismos y empirismos, nos acercamos a algunas formas, modos, momentos y lugares de aprender de docentes de infantil, primaria y secundaria. Lo hacemos, no solo centrándonos en las interacciones con sus contextos, sino desde la noción de las "intra-acciones" para ir más allá de la metafísica del individualismo que subyace a las interpretaciones convencionales de las "interacciones”. Esto nos permite sobrepasar la separación que tiende a realizar la investigación lógico-positivista entre las personas y los objetos del mundo que les rodea, en este caso los contextos de aprendizaje de los docentes, al considerar que están interconectados antes de que la mirada del investigador los separe. Las cartografías de aprendizaje y las narraciones realizadas por los docentes que participaron en la investigación y las conversaciones mantenidas con ellos, nos han permitido identificar las intra-acciones de los espacios, tiempos, condiciones, expectativas, recursos, artefactos, etc., en sus procesos del aprender. Esto nos ha permitido vislumbrar la constitución mutua de organismos enredados y los difuminados límites entre los cuerpos y objetos, considerándolos fenómenos materiales discursivos. Desde una mirada post-cualitativa, situamos este análisis desde la teoría y lo que ésta permite pensar para que, más que ‘obtener resultados’, podamos contribuir a comprender el aprendizaje de los docentes y sus implicaciones para la práctica y la formación inicial y permanente. El artículo finaliza planteando la implicaciones y desafíos de este estudio en la forma de entender el aprender y en la formación del profesorado. This article aimed to approach some forms, modes, moments and places of learning of infant, primary and secondary teachers from the perspective of new materialism and empiricism. We did this, not only by focusing on interactions with their contexts, but also from the notion of "intra-actions" since our purpose was to go beyond the metaphysics of individualism which underlies conventional interpretations of "interactions". This allowed us to overcome the separation that logical-positivist research tends to make between people and objects. This article, therefore, considered that in teacher learning contexts teachers and objects are interconnected before the researcher's gaze separated them. The learning cartographies and narrations provided by the teachers who participated in the research and the conversations held with them allowed us to identify in their learning processes the intra-actions of spaces, times, conditions, expectations, resources, artefacts, etc. This enabled us to glimpse the mutual constitution of entangled organisms and the blurred boundaries between bodies and objects, considering them as discursive material phenomena. From a post-qualitative perspective, we situated this analysis from what the theory allowed us to think so that, rather than 'obtaining results', we contributed to understanding teacher learning and its implications for practice and initial and ongoing training. The article ended by posing implications and challenges regarding the usual understanding of both learning and pre-service and in-service teachers’ professional development.

2021 ◽  
pp. 003465432110469
Author(s):  
Sara van der Linden ◽  
Jan van der Meij ◽  
Susan McKenney

Video and coaching as vehicles for teachers’ professional development have both received much attention in educational research. The combination of the two, video coaching, where teachers watch and discuss videos of their own practice with a coach, seems especially promising, but there is limited insight into how the design leads to desired teacher and student outcomes through mediating enactment processes. This review systematically synthesized the occurrences and co-occurrences of video coaching design features, enactment processes, teacher outcomes, and student impacts as reported in 59 empirical studies. The literature corpus contained information on design features for all studies, but the video coaching enactment processes were described in only half of the studies. Altogether, the studies showed that video coaching can support some positive teacher outcomes, such as changes in pedagogical behavior, but evidence was not consistently reported for all types of outcomes. Few studies examined impacts on learners. Taken together, this review revealed important gaps in knowledge, which highlights the importance of paying attention to unpacking teacher learning processes.


Author(s):  
Hongmei Han ◽  
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Jinghua Wang

This study explores the impact of teacher learning community on EFL teachers’ professional development. The participants are 17 EFL teachers from Hebei University in China. A year-long study was conducted on these teachers' group leaning activities through participatory observation and in-depth interviews. The preliminary results are as follows: 1) Generally speaking, through conversation, interaction and online peer evaluation in learning community, participant teachers have improved professionally in terms of critical thinking, academic writing, reflective thinking and research awareness; 2) In learning activities of the community, the experienced teachers focused more on the construction of knowledge regarding research methodology, through interaction with others and participation in teaching-based research activities, to reconstruct their knowledge about teaching and research; while the novice teachers placed more emphasis on the reconstruction of knowledge regarding pedagogical theories and the way these theories are applied in teaching practice, through social interaction with other teachers.


2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary C. Caddle ◽  
Alfredo Bautista ◽  
Bárbara M. Brizuela ◽  
Sheree T. Sharpe

While there is widespread agreement that one-size-fits-all professional development (PD) initiatives have limited potential to foster teacher learning, much existing PD is still designed without attention to teachers’ motivations and needs. This paper shows that the strengths and weaknesses of middle school mathematics teachers that engage in PD may significantly vary. We present three representative cases that illustrate this diversity. The cases were selected from a cohort of 54 grades 5-9 mathematics teachers in the northeastern United States. The results show that: 1) these three teachers dramatically differed in their motivations and self-perceived needs regarding mathematical content, classroom instruction, and student thinking; 2) their perceptions were closely aligned with the results of our own assessments; and 3) the motivations and needs of these three teachers reflected the general trends identified in the cohort of 54 teachers. We conclude that “giving teachers voice” is essential when designing and implementing PD.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kārlis Greitāns ◽  
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Dace Namsone ◽  

This review study includes 19 articles from 2016 to 2021 focusing on in-service science teachers’ professional development targeted to promote student conceptual understanding. The present study is guided by the following research question: “What characterizes high-quality in-service science teachers’ professional development targeted to promote student conceptual understanding?” The review indicates that such classroom practices as modelling, questioning, and arguing from evidence are perspective ways to develop student conceptual understanding in science classrooms. A mixture of input, application, and reflection; long-term involvement of participants; focus on the question how to foster transfer from teacher professional development into participants’ everyday work characterize high quality teacher professional development interventions that develop and support inquiry practices. Results suggest that teacher professional development that is sensitive to teacher learning needs is a way to develop student conceptual understanding. Keywords: in-service teacher professional development, science teacher education, student conceptual understanding, teacher learning


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Wood ◽  
Halida Jaidin ◽  
Rosmawijah Jawawi ◽  
J.S.H.Q. Perera ◽  
Sallimah Salleh ◽  
...  

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on a study of teacher learning through participation in sustained collaborative subject-based professional development groups supported by a facilitator, using a model of teachers’ conceptions of teaching developed from phenomenography to identify what are the critical features of teaching that must be present if teachers are to learn, and using a variation theory of learning to explain how they learn. Design/methodology/approach The groups engaged in cycles of lesson study action research to improve the learning outcomes of their students. The authors intended to engage the teachers in an exploration of their own and their students’ experiences to understand the relationship between the enactment of the research lesson(s) and the educational outcome. The authors collected over 157 hours of video recorded teachers’ meetings involving 15 groups, 47 hours of follow-up interviews and 97 hours of lessons. In this paper the authors report on the progress of one of those groups. The authors analysed the transcripts to see what, if any, dimensions of variation were opened in discussion, affording the opportunity for learning. The authors sought the simultaneous juxtaposition, the bringing together, of threads that have entered the discussion that have the potential to open dimensions of variation – to add critical features to the “what” and “how” dimensions of teaching. Findings The authors identified necessary conditions for teacher learning through collaborative subject-based professional development groups. Any member of the group might bring this about. The facilitator or coach might be expected to perform this role in the group, and to sustain the group’s attention on the critical features of the object of learning. Practical implications The paper provides valuable insights into strategies to change teacher perspectives from a transmission oriented to a construction oriented view of teaching in the face of new and challenging curriculum demands. Originality/value In the work reported here the authors have used variation theory to design lesson study. This is rather different from a learning study where the teachers engaged in the study use variation theory to design their research lesson(s). It is a learning study of teachers’ professional development.


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