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Publication Date: 2021
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Supporting Expansive Learning in Preservice Bilingual Teachers' Zone of Proximal Development of the Activity System: An Analysis of a Four-Field Model Trajectory
Professional Development in Education, v47 n2-3 p225-242 2021
The Change Laboratory methodology offers the potential to support expansive learning in preservice bilingual teacher education. This qualitative case study examines how ten preservice Chinese and Korean bilingual teachers, who participated in a Change Laboratory intervention, engaged one of the major Change Laboratory instruments, the four-field model, to make changes in their lesson implementation. By recognising the structural barriers in their bilingual teacher learning and praxis, they were able to take future-oriented actions. Findings from the thematic analysis illustrate how, as the preservice bilingual teachers embraced ambiguity in their teaching, they became increasingly cognisant of the non-linear and complex nature of teaching and learning. In doing so, they explored their collective reflective practices and gained confidence in using their judgement to generate expressions of transformative agency that have the potential to disrupt the status quo in US bilingual education.
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Bilingual Teachers, Korean, Preservice Teacher Education, Case Studies, Intervention, Teaching Methods, Bilingual Education, Educational Change, Program Descriptions, Chinese, Lesson Plans, Barriers, Reflective Teaching, Self Efficacy, Decision Making, Transformative Learning, Learning Theories, Student Teaching, Practicums, Student Attitudes, Educational Philosophy, Graduate Students, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Chinese Americans, Korean Americans, Simulation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Education; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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