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New Faculty Collaborative Research Publication: “Tracing language teacher professional development through Perezhivanie: an argument for praxis” – Rebecca Clegg-Sasaki and Dr. Mark De Boer
Rebecca Clegg-Sasaki, Lecturer, and Dr. Mark De Boer, Assistant Professor, in AIU’s English for Academic Purposes Program, along with Dr. Dmitri Leontjev, Senior Researcher at the University of Jyv?skyl? in Finland, have published an article in European Journal of Teacher Education.
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Title: Tracing language teacher professional development through Perezhivanie: an argument for praxis
In this paper, we build an argument for studying and promoting teacher development in dialectical teacher-researcher partnership, praxis, which is informed by perezhivanie, a dialectical unity of emotion and intellect. We will study the developmental trajectory of an in-service L2 teacher striving to give her learners agency in the teaching-learning process while navigating institutional structures. We guide the reader through this teacher’s development in a year-and-a-half praxis with two researchers, illustrating the joint process of sense-making to resolve tensions stemming from institutional constraints, learner expectations, and own practices. The data come from (a) teacher-researcher discussions, (b) a teacher interview, and (c) data sessions. Perezhivanie informed the design, researchers’ mediation, and data analysis. We illustrate how the teacher moved towards and realised her commitment to enabling learner agency in language teaching. We discuss the implications of making perezhivanie a central concept in teacher education with in-service L2 teachers, realised through praxis.