How Do I Improve What I Am Doing as a Teacher, Teacher Educator and Action-Researcher through Reflection? A Learning Walk from Lleida to Winchester and Back Again

From Section:
Teacher Educators
Countries:
Spain
Published:
Jun. 01, 2011

Source: Educational Action Research, Volume 19, Issue 3, 2011, pages 261-278

This paper aims to show the process of engaging with the question ‘How do I improve what I am doing as a teacher, teacher educator and action-researcher through reflection?’

The methodology used will explore the role of reflection and writing to promote changes and improve the author's learning process as a teacher and action-researcher.
The main data source is written assignments from students in initial teacher education.

The analysis of the students’ written assignments helped the author sees ‘living contradictions’ in-between her theoretical framework, her teaching and her researching practice.

The paper shows that the author has more rhizomatic thought in her teaching than in her researching.


Updated: Nov. 09, 2021
Keywords:
Action research | Reflection | Teacher educators | Teacher researchers | Teaching methods | Theory practice relationship