Pedagogical interchanges on identity : an email correspondence
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Date
2003
Authors
Colburn, Heather
University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education
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Publisher
Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 2003
Abstract
A series of fifteen email interchanges provided a qualitative research environment in
which to engage in authentic communication about the people and events that have
shaped my correspondent and me as both teachers and learners, and provided us with the
opportunity to share, and to reflect on, the same roles as school administrators. In telling
the stories of our personal and working lives, we examined, and better understood, the
experiences that have shaped our identities. The purpose of the project was to explore
what our lifewriting reveals to us about our identity. It brought to light the learning that
takes place as we reconsidered our views of our educational experiences, parent-child
relationships, and our own professional working realities. In doing this project, I wanted
to find out what it was about the history of my life that made me choose the path of
teacher, and then the one of administrator, and shaped my identity in these roles. I wanted
to recognize and understand the effects of the people, events, and themes that shaped my
identity, and continue to shape my identity in those roles and in others. I was most
interested in the journey, the dynamics of the letter writing relationship, the themes that
surfaced in our writing, and the insights the interchanges would provide.
Description
vi, 54 leaves ; 29 cm. --
Keywords
Teachers -- Alberta -- Attitudes , Teachers -- Alberta -- Psychology , School administrators -- Alberta -- Attitudes , School administrators -- Alberta -- Psychology , Autobiographical memory