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PDAGOGICAL INNOVATION: FROM
SEMANTICS TO IDEOLOGY
Dalit Levy Zefat Academic College, Israel
Lea Baratz Achva College, Israel
Digital Learning Research Network conference - dLRN2015Stanford, CA, October 16, 2015
An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
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What do you see?
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An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
Levy & Baratz, October 16, 2015
Words of Pedagogical Innovation
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Words of Pedagogical Innovation
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Words of Pedagogical Innovation
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[What is Hybrid Pedagogy?]combines critical pedagogy and digital pedagogy to arrive at the best social and civil uses for technology and new media in education.
Words of Pedagogical Innovation
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PURPOSE OF OUR STUDY
• To investigate the use of the semantic term innovation as it finds expression in teacher educators' definitions
• To reveal connections between ideology and the “language of innovation” of teacher educators
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RESEARCH QUESTIONS
• What is “the language of innovation” of Israeli teacher educators?
• In what ways does it express a new kind of educational reality? Or, is it a semantic habit that gives expression to the socio-economic trends and ideologies?
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THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
Language and ideology (i.e. Cameron, 2006; Eisenberg-Kenah, 2004)
Ideology of teacher educators and its influence on their attitudes (Perrotta, 2013, Baratz & Levy, in press)
Innovations – ideological trends (i.e. Rogers, 2002)
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THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
• When speaking of ideology, we assume a habitus of people sharing an environment that allows for a common understanding and interpretation of orientations and beliefs.• These shared understandings
direct the way people view situations and perceive reality.
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METHOD
A research tool was designed to collect teacher educators' stories about their experiences
The respondents were first asked to characterize elements of pedagogical innovation from their field of practice, according to the principle of a "small story" (Bamberg, 2006)
At the end, they were asked to provide a definition of pedagogical innovation
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METHOD
A research tool was designed to collect teacher educators' stories
The respondents were first asked to characterize elements of pedagogical innovation from their field of practice, according to the principle of a "small story" (Bamberg, 2006)
At the end, the respondents were asked to provide a definition of pedagogical innovation
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1. Describe a situation in which you applied “Pedagogical innovation”
METHOD
A research tool was designed to collect teacher educators' stories
The respondents were first asked to characterize elements of pedagogical innovation from their field of practice, according to the principle of a "small story" (Bamberg, 2006)
At the end, the respondents were asked to provide a definition of pedagogical innovation
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7. Define “Pedagogical innovation” according to your own point of view.
METHOD
110 responses were collected (in a narrative form), from teacher educators in 7 colleges of education around Israel
An inductive analysis was carried out in three stages
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ב" שימוש לעשות ניתן כיצד לסטודנטים הדגמתי סמארטפוןהיום ( " מגיב הוראתי נושא של וההבנה העניין (.2012ינואר, 95לשדרוג
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1. Describe a situation in which you applied “Pedagogical innovation”
“Today I demonstrated to students how a smartphone could be used to increase interest in and the understanding of a particular teaching subject”
METHOD
ב" שימוש לעשות ניתן כיצד לסטודנטים הדגמתי סמארטפוןהיום ( " מגיב הוראתי נושא של וההבנה העניין (.2012ינואר, 95לשדרוג
- שימוש" מודל לדוגמא . באתר אני מפורטים מעלה בקורס מערכיםלדון מנת על אותם לקרוא מהסטודנטים ומבקשת שיעור כל לקראת
. ? . לדעת לא לדעתי פדגוגית חדשנות זו האם בשיעור בהם ( " . מגיבה זאת עושה אני שרק טוענים הם כן שלי ינואר, 85הסטודנטים
2012 .)
לפני" פדגוגית חדשנות , 3יישמתי לצרף במכללה הציעו כאשר שניםהמחשבים אסיסטנטית . מתחום מיד נעניתי בכך שיבחר מרצה לכל
. יישמתי איתה יחד שלי המתודיקה לשיעורי אותה וצרפתי זה לאתגרהספרות בהוראת המחשב עבור שילוב במיוחד שהכנתי רציונל לפי
.... האסיסטנטית זו המחשב סיטואציה המהלכים מתחום בכל לי סייעהלפתח הסטודנטיות יכלו ממוחשבים ובעזרתה הוראה מגיבה..." ) מערכי
(.2010דצמבר, 25
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1. Describe a situation in which you applied “Pedagogical innovation”
“I used pedagogical innovation three years ago …when integrating computers in teaching literature … The assistant helped me in developing computerized lessons”.
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"I don’t think I innovate. I may be dusting off approaches of Rogers and other humanistic educators.“
"Innovation is no more than buzz words.”
7. Define “Pedagogical innovation” according to your own point of view.
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"Pedagogical innovation is to approach each learner with the 'key' that is appropriate to him/her in order to reach maximum cognitive achievements in the accepted academic framework”
7. Define “Pedagogical innovation” according to your own point of view.
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“Pedagogical innovation is teaching and learning strategies that fulfill the requirements of current learning theories and social educational perspectives. It is a way to cope with ideas that arise in the field or from the difficulties in the field."
7. Define “Pedagogical innovation” according to your own point of view.
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TEACHER EDUCATORS’ DISCOURSE OF PEDAGOGICAL
INNOVATION
NO INNOVATIO
N
MENTION TECHNOLOGIE
S
1. PRAGMATI
C
SUGGEST A DEFINITION
3. DOUBLE MEANING
2. IDEOLOGIC
AL
4. RECURSIV
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MENTION TECHNOLOGIE
S
SUGGEST RENEWED
DEFINITION
SUGGEST RENEWED
DEFINITION
2. NOT THE MOST
UPDATED APPS
NO INNOVATIO
N
TEACHER EDUCATORS’ DISCOURSE OF PEDAGOGICAL
INNOVATION
3. FUTURE THINKIN
G
1. GENERAL TERMS
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MENTION TECHNOLOGIE
S
SUGGEST RENEWED
DEFINITION
SUGGEST RENEWED
DEFINITION
2. NOT THE MOST
UPDATED APPS
NO INNOVATIO
N
TEACHER EDUCATORS’ DISCOURSE OF PEDAGOGICAL
INNOVATION
3. FUTURE THINKIN
G
1. GENERAL TERMS
• OER• OPENNESS• OPEN
EDUCATIONLevy & Baratz, October 16, 2015
SO, WHAT CHARACTERIZES COLLEGE TEACHERS’ “LANGUAGE OF INNOVATION”?
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• Traces of skepticism: “Nothing new under the sun”
• Strong presence of the digital age
Levy & Baratz, October 16, 2015
SO, WHAT CHARACTERIZES COLLEGE TEACHERS’ “LANGUAGE OF INNOVATION”?
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• Components of semantic habits give expression to the trends of socio-economic policy-makers
• Criticism with regard to having to cope with innovation (also) in the professional educational field
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The discussion of innovation among Israeli
teacher educators seems to differ from what can be found in
other professional “communities of
practice” (agriculture, environment, health, high-tech, business
development, science…)
SO, WHAT CHARACTERIZES COLLEGE TEACHERS’ “LANGUAGE OF INNOVATION”?
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Last but not least …• The ideology influences the
semantic use of the concept of innovation
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Institution-
centered ideology
Teacher- centered ideology
Learner- centered ideology
SO, WHAT CHARACTERIZES COLLEGE TEACHERS’ “LANGUAGE OF INNOVATION”?
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Last but not least …• The ideology influences the
semantic use of the concept of innovation
Levy & Baratz, October 16, 2015
Institution-
centered ideology
Teacher- centered ideology
Learner- centered ideology
Pedagogical innovation is defined as a path for better teaching
Pedagogical innovation
= tool for educating the good learner
Pedagogical innovation =
development of contributing citizens