"A Different Frame around the Conversation": A Narrative Inquiry into the Reflective Practice of Early Induction Administrators Charged with Instructional Supervision

Autor/in	Roberts, Zachary
Titel	"A Different Frame around the Conversation": A Narrative Inquiry into the Reflective Practice of Early Induction Administrators Charged with Instructional Supervision
Quelle	(2010), (180 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit Ed.D. Dissertation, Mills College
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-1-1240-1009-0
Schlagwörter	Hochschulschrift; Dissertation; Adult Development; Qualitative Research; Elementary Secondary Education; Research Methodology; Clinical Supervision (of Teachers); Reflective Teaching; Models; Inquiry; Administrators; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Thesis; Dissertations; Academic thesis; Erwachsenwerden; Qualitative Forschung; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Analogiemodell; Kalifornien
Abstract	The purpose of this qualitative research was to describe and analyze the ways in which newly inducted supervisors (in the first three years of their work) tasked with clinical supervision, cognitive coaching, and similar forms of developmental instructional supervision were engaged in a "reflective dialogue" between their supervisory beliefs and experiences, and how they made sense of their work--including the author, and thus it was designed to function as a study of the author's own reflective practice as well. The rationale for this study lay in an original framework that synthesized supervisory theory and practices, reflection in-and-on action, and dimensions of adult development. The research methodology was developed within the tradition of narrative inquiry, which has a strong theme of autobiographical participation and works at the edges of various qualitative methodologies. Three participating administrators in a variety of independent (private) K-12 educational settings in California's San Francisco Bay Area completed a Supervisory Belief Inventory and a survey on their Educational Platforms, which were then discussed as part of a single, extensive interview. Analysis was performed using a variety of conceptual tools located at various points of the holistic-categorical and form-content continua. From these emerged a layer of interim research texts, out of which the final research text was constructed. The findings identify four themes consistently expressed by the participants, including the impact of one's past on how one experiences the present, the importance of building relationships, knowing and questioning one's perspective, and the on-going construction and re-construction of narratives, which allows supervisors to navigate their experiences. The implications of this research for supervisors are two fold; the first is the need for a meta-cognitive understanding of how one understands the role of narrative construction in how one makes meaning,and the second is the usefulness and limits of reflection in aiding narrative construction. The implications of this research for researchers includes the process of reaching and navigating choice-points, realizing and responding to errors in analysis, and considerations about how the process of writing and re-writing a research text is itself construction of a narrative. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10