Observing Teacher Identities Through Video Analysis - Practice and Implications

Teaching is often seen as an identity process, with teachers constructing and enacting their identities through daily interactions with students, parents and colleagues. This volume explores how conducting video analysis helps teachers gain valuable perspectives on their own identities and improve classroom practice over time. This form of interactional awareness fosters reflection and action on creating classroom conditions that encourage equitable learning.

The volume follows preservice English teachers as they examine video records of their practice during student teaching, and how the evidence impacts their development as literacy teachers of diverse adolescents. By applying an analytic framework to video analysis, the authors demonstrate how novice teachers use positioning theory to transform their own identity performance in the classroom. Education scholars, teachers and professional developers will greatly benefit from this unique perspective on teacher identity work.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Identity and Positionality: A Framework for Video Analysis of Teaching 3. Positions of Power 4. Positions of Advocacy 5. Positions of Facilitative Teaching 6. Positions of Critical and Racial Literacy 7. Implications for Identity Work and Video Analysis in Teacher Education

About the author

Amy Vetter is Associate Professor of English Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.
Melissa Schieble is Assistant Professor of English Education at Hunter College of the City University of New York, USA.

Summary

This volume explores how conducting video analysis helps teachers gain valuable perspectives on their own identities and improve classroom practice over time.

Product details

• Authors: Melissa Schieble, Melissa (Hunter College Schieble, Schieble Melissa, Amy Vetter, Amy (University of North Carolina Vetter, Amy Schieble Vetter, Amy/ Schieble Vetter, Vetter Amy
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781138831711
• ISBN: 978-1-138-83171-1
• No. of pages: 148
• Series: Routledge Research in Teacher Education; Routledge Research in Teacher Education; Routledge Research in Teacher
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching skills & techniques, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies