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This book uses the notion of perezhivanie, a psychological response to an issue that an individual cannot solve using their habitual actions, to describe why and how teachers make decisions and act the way they do, and develop professionally in the push to digital transformation, which is shaping teaching and learning. Unlike earlier work in teacher development, where cognition predominantly served the thinking and decision making processes, here the focus is on the emotion, cognition, and context, united in the notion of perezhivanie. To demonstrate the work of perezhivanie as a unit, the author applies a conceptual framework to the data from qualitative interviews with ten university language teachers about their experience of using technology in their teaching. While teachers responded to issues of technology integration in various ways, a broad pattern emerged, when teachers could not do what they had planned for the lesson due to struggles with technology. Additionally, since perezhivanie exists in several forms, here the author defi nes them as perezhivanie-experiencing, perezhivanie apprehension, and perezhivanie-reflection. The author exemplifies how these forms can provide a theoretically powerful frame for understanding and researching teacher development and, more broadly, human consciousness.
List of contents
Contents: About perezhivanie - A puzzle and the definition of perezhivanie - Vygotsky's work on perezhivanie - Research on perezhivanie after Vygotsky in Russia - International discussion on perezhivanie - Key notions and conceptual framework - Utilising technology: New environment, new roles and new jobs - The role of motives in teaching activity - Emotions - The role of perezhivanie in teacher development - The conceptual framework - The study - The narrative orientation of perezhivanie research - The fieldwork and data analysis - Manifestations of perezhivanie in the data and the research applications - Empirical evidence of teachers' perezhivanie - Three forms of perezhivanie - Further research on perezhivanie - Research design - Data management and analysis.
About the author
Lada Smirnova holds a PhD from the University of Manchester, UK. She is the founder and CEO of En4all, an online English language learning provider. Her areas of interest and research include teacher training and sustainable teacher development, using technology for academic English in ELT, and, more specifically, using adaptive technologies and artificial intelligence for designing blended and online programmes. Lada has initiated an MA in Digital Transformation in Education and is Deputy Director of this programme, and is currently working as Associate Professor in the HSE University in Moscow.
Summary
This book uses the Russian notion of perezhivanie, a kind of a teachers' response to the digital transformation push, which is shaping teaching and learning nowadays, to describe why and how teachers make decisions and act the way they do, and grow professionally.
