The role of reflective techniques in professional development of teachers in a fiction-based course
Absztrakt
Our study presents the partial results of a survey of teachers and pre-service teachers between 2023 and 2024. The research framework was an online course combining reflective and narrative techniques based on reading works of fiction, using methodological elements of professional book clubs. In the present research we focus on the role of reflective techniques and practices in the professional development of the teacher participants in this complex process. This topic is presented through a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 50 teachers' responses to a questionnaire survey. The analysis of the data shows that reflective techniques were appropriate were appropriate tools to support teachers' professional development and learning: in varying proportions, but they played a role in exploring their individual pedagogical beliefs, identifying feelings related to their career and work, and in the construction or development of their professional identity.
Kulcsszavak:
teachers’ professional development, professional book club, reflective techniquesHivatkozások
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