Critical Reflection for Transformative Learning: Understanding e-Portfolios in Teacher Education

✍ Scribed by Katrina Liu

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Springer
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 153
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a research-based guide to using ePortfolios to develop critically reflective teachers capable of transformative learning for educational equity. It begins with a conceptualization of critical reflection in teacher education, then analyzes the social discourse of prospective teachers' teaching practice through their ePortfolio reflections, triangulated by classroom teaching observations and interviews. The results of the research show that prospective teachers’ reflections are performative and do not typically trigger transformative learning, in large part because of discrepancies in the structures of the ePortfolio, the goals of the teacher education program, and the mentoring and supervisory practices. With this analysis in hand, the book turns to practical questions, providing a transformative framework along with examples and tips for teacher educators to use the author’s methods to understand and analyze prospective teachers’ reflection and support their transformative learning.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
Introduction (Katrina Liu)....Pages 1-20
Who Celebrates Kwanzaa? The Struggle for Critical Reflection and Transformative Learning (Katrina Liu)....Pages 21-44
Looking Back on What Was Good and What Was Bad: Prospective Teachers’ Understanding of Critical Reflection (Katrina Liu)....Pages 45-54
It’s Me Doing Work for Someone Else: Prospective Teachers’ Attitudes Toward the ePortfolio Reflection Requirements (Katrina Liu)....Pages 55-65
I Want to be Seen as the Best I Can: How the Teacher Education Program Conditions Prospective Teachers’ Reflection Strategies (Katrina Liu)....Pages 67-78
Awesome, Awesome: Missed Opportunities for Transformative Learning (Katrina Liu)....Pages 79-95
Supporting Prospective Teachers’ Critical Reflection for Transformative Learning (Katrina Liu)....Pages 97-118
Coding and Analyzing Narratives to Foster Critical Reflection for Transformative Learning (Katrina Liu)....Pages 119-128
Toward a Transformative Teacher Education Community (Katrina Liu)....Pages 129-135
Back Matter ....Pages 137-144

✦ Subjects

Education; Educational Technology; Teaching and Teacher Education