Return observational field-notes to teachers and discuss critical episodes in team meetings as dialogical data generation¶

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Description¶

In the study, transcribed field-notes were returned to teachers, who were invited to look for evidence of constitutive values in practice; follow-up team discussions were tape-recorded and transcribed. The meetings served epistemological, methodological and ethical functions: assessing the credibility of the record, generating further reflections in a process of "dialogical data generation", and involving teachers as active participants in creating new knowledge about their practice.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Teachers must be active participants rather than passive study objects, and the record's credibility must be checked against their experiences

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• Practising teachers working in school teams

Target Learning Goals¶

• Becoming aware of unreflective, value-laden routines and reconciling individual values with the professional mission

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Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Norberg, K. (2003). Constitutive Values and Daily Practice in a Swedish School. Values and Ethics in Educational Administration, 1(3). http://www.ed.psu.edu/uceacsle/