Courageous Conversation: Looking Back, Looking Forward through Self-Study

Abstract

In this paper, I assess my academic growth and future challenges for my teaching and scholarship. The work is grounded in dialogicality within a Bakhtinian sociohistorical view of language allowing me to critically reflect on my growth as a literacy and special education instructor. I use student feedback and a reflective journal addressing four components: (a) situation; (b) personal influence; (c) interpretation; and (d) action plan to study my performance and plan for the future.

Keywords:

• dialogic tensions
• dialogicality
• literacy
• self-study
• special education