Creating Spaces for Critical Transformative Dialogues: Legitimising Discussion Groups as Professional Practice

Autor/in	Edwards-Groves, Christine J.
Titel	Creating Spaces for Critical Transformative Dialogues: Legitimising Discussion Groups as Professional Practice
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 38 (2013) 12, Artikel 2 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0313-5373
Schlagwörter	Dialogs (Language); Case Studies; Teaching Methods; Criticism; Faculty Development; Teacher Educators; College Faculty; Action Research; Educational Change; Educational Practices; Discourse Analysis; Foreign Countries; Content Analysis; Discussion Groups; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Dialog; Dialogs; Dialogue; Dialogues; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Kritik; Teacher education; Education; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Fakultät; Projektforschung; Bildungsreform; Bildungspraxis; Diskursanalyse; Ausland; Inhaltsanalyse; Australien
Abstract	Focussed dialogue (as lived and living practices) can have a powerful role in renewing professional practice, advancing its sustainability and development as administrative and political systems colonise the practices of teachers and teacher educators. However, participating in discussion groups for many teachers, including those in academia, is often constrained by time demands, workplace structures and accountabilities. This paper reports a two year empirical case study investigating the transformative nature of dialogues experienced in one such focused discussion group. The dialogic practices of the group aimed firstly to provide a communicative space for its participants to interrogate and interpret factors which enable and constrain teaching and research practices; secondly, to critique practices as a form of collective professional learning; and thirdly, to study the educational practices of its members from within their own practice tradition. To do this it describes the nature of discussion groups. Findings reveal that creating communicative space for discussion enables professional learning and agency through critical and transformative dialogues. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Edith Cowan University. Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, West Australia 6050, Australia. Web site: http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10