A1 Journal article (refereed)
Tracing language teacher professional development through Perezhivanie : an argument for praxis (2024)
Clegg-Sasaki, R., Leontjev, D., & de Boer, M. (2024). Tracing language teacher professional development through Perezhivanie : an argument for praxis. European Journal of Teacher Education, Early online. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2024.2340687
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All authors or editors: Clegg-Sasaki, Rebecca; Leontjev, Dmitri; de Boer, Mark
Journal or series: European Journal of Teacher Education
ISSN: 0261-9768
eISSN: 1469-5928
Publication year: 2024
Publication date: 11/04/2024
Volume: Early online
Publisher: Routledge
Publication country: United Kingdom
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2024.2340687
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Abstract
In this paper, we build an argument for studying and promoting teacher development in dialectical teacher-researcher partnership, praxis, which is informed by perezhivanie, a dialectical unity of emotion and intellect . We will study the developmental trajectory of an in-service L2 teacher striving to give her learners agency in the teaching-learning process while navigating institutional structures. We guide the reader through this teacher’s development in a year-and-a-half praxis with two researchers, illustrating the joint process of sense-making to resolve tensions stemming from institutional constraints, learner expectations, and own practices. The data come from (a) teacher-researcher discussions, (b) a teacher interview, and (c) data sessions. Perezhivanie informed the design, researchers’ mediation, and data analysis. We illustrate how the teacher moved towards and realised her commitment to enabling learner agency in language teaching. We discuss the implications of making perezhivanie a central concept in teacher education with in-service L2 teachers, realised through praxis.
Keywords: language teaching; language teachers; teachers; teacherhood; teacher training; teaching and instruction; learning; school children
Free keywords: Praxis, perezhivanie; L2 teacher development; learner agency; academic writing
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