“Relocating the Personal” to engender critically reflective practice in pre-service literacy teachers
Abstract
This case study mapped candidates' responses to a pre-service literacy course designed to relocate teacher candidates' literacy histories and beliefs from a personal to political frame with the intent of promoting critical reflection and complex understandings of literacy, teaching, and learning. As part of a broader qualitative case study including 71 participants over 8 months, this paper focuses on data gathered from 7 candidates. Through a modified constant comparative method, the analysis confirmed the effectiveness of certain conditions created in the course while pointing to a need for further attention to issues of power and the unconscious in learning to teach literacy.
Reference
Heydon, R., & Hibbert, K. (2010). “Relocating the Personal” to engender critically reflective practice in pre-service literacy teachers. Teaching and Teacher Education, 26(4), 796–804. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2009.10.016
Journal
Teaching and Teacher Education
Analysis
Is this article part of a larger project or series of studies?
no
Does this study draw on a large, preexisting data set?
no
Research Approach
Geographic Setting
Institutional Context
Certification Level
Programatic Focus
Research Location Context
Preservice Participants
- Post bachs (university based program)
Preservice Sample Size
71
Duration of Data Collection
Data Sources
- Interviews
- life history interview
- online discussions
- Survey
- written reflections/class papers
Data Analysis Tools
- coding "according to predictive themes and pattern matched"
Researcher Positionality
- inside (staying their own students)
- Inside (studying their own programs)
Research Questions
"how did candidates respond to the pedagogical approaches
selected in a literacy education course that were designed to relocate
their literacy histories and beliefs from a personal to a political
frame with the intent of promoting critical reflection and complex
understandings of literacy, teaching, and learning?
Is this research question explicit from the manuscript? Yes
"Furthermore,
what experiences did candidates bring with them to the course and
in what ways was the course challenged by these experiences and
these experiences challenged by the course?"
Is this research question explicit from the manuscript? Unknown