Shedding light on our practices: Four assumption hunters on a quest

- Garbutt, Dawn, Brandenburg, Robyn, Thomas, Lynn, Ovens, Alan

Title
Shedding light on our practices: Four assumption hunters on a quest
Creator
Garbutt, Dawn; Brandenburg, Robyn; Thomas, Lynn; Ovens, Alan
Date
2018
Type
Text; Conference proceedings
Identifier
http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/180844
Identifier
vital:15810
Identifier
ISBN:978-0-473-44471-6
Abstract
We are an international collaborative of self-study researchers who have begun work together to identify and challenge assumptions that underpinned our practice as teacher educators. Assumptions are the underlying biases that define how pedagogy is enacted. Seeking out and challenging assumptions helps to discover the unconscious biases that define and mediate a practitioner’s actions in the classroom. Assumptions by themselves are neither good nor bad things, but rather are the tacit beliefs that guide a teacher’s decision making. As Brookfield (1995) states, “informed actions…are based on assumptions that have been carefully and critically investigated” (p.80). By using this as the starting point for self-study, the objective is then not to eliminate assumptions from our teaching practice, but to better understand and analyse those assumptions through a process of rigorous self-inquiry. Such inquiry empowers us to assess the impact of our assumptions on our professional practice.
Publisher
Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices (S-STEP)
Relation
Pushing boundaries and crossing borders; Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices, Herstmonceux, UK: 2018 p. 409-415
Rights
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Rights
© 2018 S-STEP
Rights
Open Access
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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