An Ethnography in Turkish Higher Education : A Collaborative Research-Based Approach To Teacher Empowerment (CORBATE)

ISBN-13: 9783659822117 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 316 str.

Benâ Gül Peker

Opis

This ethnographic study investigated the process of empowerment among teachers working at the Middle East Technical University, Department of Basic English, Ankara, Turkey where the researcher worked as a teacher and teacher trainer. The study focused on the process of empowerment as Conversations with Self and Conversations with Settings with teachers who worked with the trainer in a three-year collaborative action research project. The findings indicate the feasibility of teacher empowerment as Conversations with Self such as background reading, consciousness raising, working with other people, knowing self better and listening and observing both self and others better in order to be able to decide on what knowledge and values are beneficial. The competencies required for the epistemological dimension of Conversations with Settings include doing research, reflection and discussion. The political agenda of such conversations, however, remained at the level of job involvement. That is to say, the political agenda of Conversations with Settings was feasible in terms of autonomy and control only in the classrooms of individual teachers and did not extend to an institutional level.

O autorze

Editor and writer of new primary English curriculum of 2006 and course books, plenary speaker at the 40th IATEFL Convention, presenter and NLP trainer, Professor Benâ Gül Peker works at Gazi University, ELT Department, Ankara, Turkey. Her professional interests include change, working with teachers at tertiary and secondary levels, NLP and drama.