TY - JOUR
T1 - Collaborative feedback and reflection for professional growth
T2 - preparing first-year pre-service teachers for participation in the community of practice
AU - Daniel, Graham
AU - Auhl, Gregory
AU - Hastings, Wendy
N1 - Imported on 12 Apr 2017 - DigiTool details were: month (773h) = May; Journal title (773t) = Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education. ISSNs: 1359-866X;
PY - 2013/5
Y1 - 2013/5
N2 - Teaching has been described as an emerging community of practice. Within suchprofessional communities, the processes of reflection and collaborative dialogue, orcritical transformative dialogue, are central to the maintenance and improvement ofprofessional practice for individuals, and the field. This paper reports on the challenges experienced by a group of first-year pre-service teachers engaging in a processof reflection and critique with peers, as they participated in a program focused on thedevelopment of core practices of teaching. These pre-service teachers’ responses indicatedtheir growing understanding of the importance of engaging in ongoing criticaldialogue, as part of the “unnaturalâ€� aspects of teaching. The paper concludes with a reflection on the value of feedback from the earliest stages of professional learning.
AB - Teaching has been described as an emerging community of practice. Within suchprofessional communities, the processes of reflection and collaborative dialogue, orcritical transformative dialogue, are central to the maintenance and improvement ofprofessional practice for individuals, and the field. This paper reports on the challenges experienced by a group of first-year pre-service teachers engaging in a processof reflection and critique with peers, as they participated in a program focused on thedevelopment of core practices of teaching. These pre-service teachers’ responses indicatedtheir growing understanding of the importance of engaging in ongoing criticaldialogue, as part of the “unnaturalâ€� aspects of teaching. The paper concludes with a reflection on the value of feedback from the earliest stages of professional learning.
KW - Collaboration
KW - Communities of practice
KW - Critical transformative dialogue
KW - Pre-service teacher education
U2 - 10.1080/1359866X.2013.777025
DO - 10.1080/1359866X.2013.777025
M3 - Article
SN - 1359-866X
VL - 41
SP - 170
EP - 183
JO - Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education
JF - Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education
IS - 2
ER -