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How Do I Improve My Practice? Creating and legitimating an epistemology of practice
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2002 |
| Abstract | This paper is a response to SchoÈ n’ s (1995) call to re ̄ ective practitioners for the development of an epistemology of practice. It grounds the epistemology in the experience of `I’ , as a living contradiction in the question, `How do I improve my practice?’ . It focuses on four epistemological implications, for the creation of a discipline of education, of placing `I’ as a living contradiction within an epistemology of re ̄ ective practice. (1) The inclusion of `I’ as a living contradiction in educational enquiries can lead to the creation of research methodologies which are distinctively `educational’ and cannot be reduced to social science methodologies. (2) The inclusion of `I’ in claims to educational knowledge leads to a logic of the question, `How do I improve my practice?’ . (3) The inclusion of `I’ in explanations for an individual’ s professional learning can lead to the creation of `living’ educational theories which can be related directly to an individual teacher’ s educative in ̄ uence with his or her students. (4) Values can be used as the educational standards which create our disciplines of education. SchoÈ n (1995) writes of introducing the new scholarship of re ̄ ective practice into institutions of higher education in terms of becoming involved in an epistemological battle: It is a battle of snails, proceeding so slowly that you have to look very carefully in order to see it going on. But it is happening nonetheless. (1995, p. 32) In the story of this re ̄ ective snail the battles have continued over some 26 years of engagement in the University. They have been internal as well as external. I am using story in the sense of Connelly & Clandinin (1999) as a way of shaping a professional’ s identity and as a way of contributing to the professional knowledge landscape. I want to be clear about the organisational context of my re ̄ ective practice. As a university academic in England my research is judged by national assessments. ISSN 1462-3943 (print)/ISSN 1470-1103 (online)/00/010091-14 Ó 2000 Taylor & Francis Ltd |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.actionresearch.net/writings/jack/jw2000rp.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
