Teachers' knowledge as stories
I was thinking about the story I have been constructing in my individual narratives in the journal writing and making some relations to the extract below:
"Stories have plots; they unfold in ways that are surprising and sometimes defy normal logic, yet they are deeply coherent. Stories are also, as Elbaz points out, social; they engage others in a web of understanding. Both points are relevant when we refer to what teachers know as their stories. Teachers' knowledge and understandings develop through time with an internal, lived coherence(Freeman 1994). This knowledge is also built on interpersonal relationships; it is individually constructed within a network of social experience." (Donald Freeman, 1996)
What do you think?
postado por Anônimo @ 15:25
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I think that Freeman´s perspective on "stories" is extremely insightful, these words really resonate in a profound way. Thanks for including this quotation here, it was great to come across it. Teachers´ stories as coherent, negotiated plots, within a social web - it´s so true. Triggered by this text, a while back, I read a couple of texts by Elbaz -- will share these -- but we should look for more recent stuff too, I think.
I would like to share with you all, my feelings about Selimel.The course were quite interesting. I´m sure we have inproved a lot during these days. It was a fantastic experience!Claudia and Sabrina you should attended Maura´s course on Friday. She emphasized the importance of reflective teaching process and explore the system of Transitivity. It remind me of you all. So, I recorded the file. It´s available in my pendrive. Maybe, Carla, you cam make it available to download. I will send to your e-mail. Claudia, Sabrina and Carla thanks for your support, for sharing your ideas and experiences:I´ve been improving my practice a lot.
Hey, I forgot to invite you to the next event: Sinale. i was reading the homepage and thought that we could present something related to our project, what do you all thinkl?. It will be in João Pessoa, in . Please do check the dates and extra information on the site:
http://www.cchla.ufpb.br/proling//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=141&Itemid=64
See you there!
I agree with Sandra when she said that SELIMEL was a fantastic experience. For me it was more than fantastic. It was my first public presentation. I will never forget it! Sandra, I am looking forward to receiving your e-mail about Maura's last class. I do need to listen to it. Maybe Maura can share her all printed material with us.
I am also learning so much with you, Carla, Sandra and Sabrina.
Claudia and Sandra, how did your presentations go? Was the discussion good? Please write more about this experience, in what way it was fantastic, etc... What great news! Congratulations!
Carla
Well, my article was about the pedagogical implications of the Internet in ELT. There were about ffteen tecahers at my presentation. For my surprise, at the end of the presentation, some teachers asked me to prepare a course or a lecture about the topic in details. We´ve exchange e-mail and phone numbers. They said that it was a very interesting topic. It seemed as if we were collegues for a long time. Now, we are sharing experience and ideas by e-mail. Isn´t that great??
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Sabrina and Claudia, What about Sinale?? Have you checked the dates. there will be a very intersting mini-course about reading strategies.
Sabrina, I think it has somethhing to do with your research.
Claudia, maybe it can help us working better with new ways of emphasing redaing in the class. what do you think?
Sandra, thanks for the feedback, it´s really great to know your presentation was successful and productive!! Congratulations.
It would be interesting if we could all meet later on, and share our ABRAPUI, SELIMEL and PROLICEN presentations, as well as plan for SINALE. What do you think?
Carla and Sandra,my presentation on SELIMEL was about my research : O PROCESSO DE CONSTRUÇÃO INDENTITÁRIA DE UMA PROFESSORA DE INGLÊS DA REDE PÚBLICA ATRAVÉS DE SEU DIÁRIO DE APRENDIZAGEM.
Surprisingly, I spoke during twenty minutes but I had spoken more and more. For a person, like me, who is very shy in front of people, was incredible! I felt confortable, relaxed and I think I was objective. There were more than 20 people in the room,among them Telma Gimenez(I did know that she was watching it) and Maura Dourado.
I felt that the audience was interested in the research I am doing, as if it was a little different.
I followed the sequence that was inside my mind focusing on the fragments of the journal. I showed the notebook(the journal)and the books with the theoretical framework. At the end, asked me 2 questions: 1)How did I get the journal? And I said that the teacher that was taking part of the research was myself. 2) How was I constructing my identity? I said that it was being constructing since the first entry on the journal. And the person added: Isn't it by the language you use? Then I started thinking that is exactly this.
Claudia, through your comments I can perceive it was a fantastic experience, as you previously mentioned. I think of Fairclough (1992) after reading your last observation, regarding language and identity: that lgge is a social practice, deeply immersed in social context, representing and signifying the world; and that lgge use involves the construal of 3 interrelated dimensions - social identities, relations, and systems of knowledge and beliefs. I would think, though, that you´ve been constructing your professional identity long before starting the journal -- through journal-writing you started to DOCUMENT and REFLECT on the process, it´s another phase of a lifelong process, I think. At ABRAPUI there was a lecturer on identity I really liked, an excellent British professor called David Block -later we can share his text. And regarding the texts you´re looking for, linguagem incontrolavel,why don´t you try through CVL? It´s an excellent resource. As for my ABRAPUI presentation, "Paisagens líquidas: reflexoes sobe (per)cursos e (con)textos de formação docente", I´ll send you all my talk through an attachment, OK. Later on I´ll find out how to post it here in our blog. I´m proud of your presentations!! (Sabrina?) Bye for now, Carla
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I also thank you "the team" for all the support and attention you have given to me since the beginning of this post-graduation course.
As to Selimel, I enjoyed presenting my first project a lot. I felt there was a good "dialogue" between me and the audience. It is very nice when other people identify with your ideas and feelings.
I also liked attending Maura's and Telma's talk on the "new" perspectives on EFL teaching. They mentioned the importance of having a more critical approach and the relationship between language and power. It was really interesting!
Hi, everyove. I´m here to tell you about my experience at Roxane Rojo´s course. The topics were very interesting and they made me remind our projects. To start with, Roxane made a literature review about genre historical background. I remembered Regina Celi´s classes during the whole course.Sencond, she stareted dicussing about what genre is and is not and some theory of genre. For my surprise, she told us she is against Marchuschi idea of LD(Livro didatico)as a support and she affirmed it is a genre.After, she talked about about concepts and ideas involving multiliteracy, semiotic literacy, language and social practice.
Then, she approched the topic: "teaching styles".And at the last day, we made some practical activities involving the use of LD and analise some of these books.For me, it will be an unforgettable course. I wish you all were there.
ah, if you want to see some of her projects, you may access the following site:
www.pucsp.br
By the way, Carla, thanks for the suggesting me taking Regina´s classes. after this course, I could realise how important her discipline was. And also, it helped me a lot in many ways.
Hi, everyove. I´m here to tell you about my experience at Roxane Rojo´s course. The topics were very interesting and they made me remind our projects. To start with, Roxane made a literature review about genre historical background. I remembered Regina Celi´s classes during the whole course.Sencond, she stareted dicussing about what genre is and is not and some theory of genre. For my surprise, she told us she is against Marchuschi idea of LD(Livro didatico)as a support and she affirmed it is a genre.After, she talked about about concepts and ideas involving multiliteracy, semiotic literacy, language and social practice.
Then, she approched the topic: "teaching styles".And at the last day, we made some practical activities involving the use of LD and analise some of these books.For me, it will be an unforgettable course. I wish you all were there.
ah, if you want to see some of her projects, you may access the following site:
www.pucsp.br
By the way, Carla, thanks for the suggesting me taking Regina´s classes. after this course, I could realise how important her discipline was. And also, it helped me a lot in many ways, especially for my project analysis.
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