Was I being critical? Vision and action in English language teacher education
Criticality has recently made its way into the field of English Language Teaching. It has mainly fostered the study of teachers’ individual commitments with their social context. A reflective account is offered here based on my praxis when I adopted a critical pedagogy to teach literature in the Eng...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Asociación Colombiana de Profesores de Ingles
2019-07-01
|
| Series: | HOW |
| Subjects: |
| _version_ | 1797721911658020864 |
|---|---|
| author | Enrique Alejandro Basabe |
| author_facet | Enrique Alejandro Basabe |
| author_sort | Enrique Alejandro Basabe |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | Criticality has recently made its way into the field of English Language Teaching. It has mainly fostered the study of teachers’ individual commitments with their social context. A reflective account is offered here based on my praxis when I adopted a critical pedagogy to teach literature in the English language teacher education program at the National University of La Pampa (UNLPam) in Argentina. Drawing on observations and documents, I give in this paper an autoethnographic account of my practice. The results show that I maintained a constant questioning of my practice and a persistent wariness about the appropriateness of keeping a critical position in my teaching context. All teachers should perform these two reflective actions in view of our role as socially and pedagogically responsible agents of practice. |
| first_indexed | 2024-03-12T09:39:56Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-3d61be71ec9c4e42b5d898d27dd197f0 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 0120-5927 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-03-12T09:39:56Z |
| publishDate | 2019-07-01 |
| publisher | Asociación Colombiana de Profesores de Ingles |
| record_format | Article |
| series | HOW |
| spelling | doaj.art-3d61be71ec9c4e42b5d898d27dd197f02023-09-02T13:19:39ZengAsociación Colombiana de Profesores de InglesHOW0120-59272019-07-01262597410.19183/how.26.2.506Was I being critical? Vision and action in English language teacher educationEnrique Alejandro Basabe0Universidad Nacional de La PampaCriticality has recently made its way into the field of English Language Teaching. It has mainly fostered the study of teachers’ individual commitments with their social context. A reflective account is offered here based on my praxis when I adopted a critical pedagogy to teach literature in the English language teacher education program at the National University of La Pampa (UNLPam) in Argentina. Drawing on observations and documents, I give in this paper an autoethnographic account of my practice. The results show that I maintained a constant questioning of my practice and a persistent wariness about the appropriateness of keeping a critical position in my teaching context. All teachers should perform these two reflective actions in view of our role as socially and pedagogically responsible agents of practice.teacher educationcritical pedagogiespractice theoryautoethnographic narratives |
| spellingShingle | Enrique Alejandro Basabe Was I being critical? Vision and action in English language teacher education HOW teacher education critical pedagogies practice theory autoethnographic narratives |
| title | Was I being critical? Vision and action in English language teacher education |
| title_full | Was I being critical? Vision and action in English language teacher education |
| title_fullStr | Was I being critical? Vision and action in English language teacher education |
| title_full_unstemmed | Was I being critical? Vision and action in English language teacher education |
| title_short | Was I being critical? Vision and action in English language teacher education |
| title_sort | was i being critical vision and action in english language teacher education |
| topic | teacher education critical pedagogies practice theory autoethnographic narratives |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT enriquealejandrobasabe wasibeingcriticalvisionandactioninenglishlanguageteachereducation |