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Studying Teacher Education
A journal of self-study of teacher education practices
Volume 11, 2015 - Issue 1
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Learning from Experiences of Non-Personhood: A Self-Study of Teacher Educator Identities

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Pages 16-31 | Received 02 Jul 2014, Accepted 29 Oct 2014, Published online: 05 Mar 2015
 

Abstract

This self-study examines how our non-personhood experiences (NPHEs) contributed to our teacher educator identity process. We took up exploration of these experiences, which were very painful for us, not as entrée into victimhood but because we wanted to learn something about how, in the face of such experiences, we could engage with these troubling interactions in order to renew our commitment to our work as teacher educators in the university. During the analysis, we considered our stories on four overlapping dimensions: (1) our selves in our own story, (2) others in the story, (3) colleagues not in the story, and (4) non-colleagues and others not in the story. A framework for looking at our NPHEs allows teacher educators to attend to students' needs while simultaneously reasserting their own teacher educator identities in more honest and vulnerable ways. Analyzing NPHEs has the potential to help teacher educators engage and invite students to recognize teacher educators' personhood and thereby better position them to recognize the personhood of their future students.

Aprendiendo de experiencias desde una no-individualidad: un self-study de las identidades de formadores de profesores

En este autoestudio examinamos los modos en que nuestras experiencias de no-individualidad contribuyen en el proceso de construcción de nuestra identidad como formadoras de profesores. Exploramos estas experiencias, que fueron dolorosas, no como una forma de victimización, sino más bien porque queríamos aprender algo nuevo acerca de cómo, de cara a estas experiencias, podríamos involucrarnos en estas complicadas interacciones de tal forma de renovar nuestro compromiso con nuestro trabajo como formadoras de profesores en la universidad. Durante el análisis, consideramos nuestros relatos personales en cuatro dimensiones interrelacionadas: (1) nosotras en nuestro propio relato, (2) otros en el relato, (3) colegas que no estaban en él, y (4) otras personas, sin ser colegas, que tampoco estaban en la historia. Proporcionar un marco para mirar nuestras experiencias de no-individualidad permite que los formadores de profesores puedan atender a las necesidades de los estudiantes, y al mismo tiempo reafirmar sus propias identidades como formadores de modo más honesto y vulnerable. El análisis de experiencias de no-individualidad tiene el potencial de ayudar a los formadores de profesores a involucrarse con los estudiantes e invitarlos a reconocer la individualidad de los formadores de docentes, y por consiguiente, prepararlos para que puedan reconocer también la individualidad de sus futuros estudiantes.

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