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Publication Date: 2017
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Relational Professionalism in a Bilingual Teacher Association: Promoting Occupational Identities and Pedagogic Agency
Bonilla, Chris Milk
Bilingual Research Journal, v40 n3 p304-317 2017
Relational professionalism in education is a way of regarding teaching as a profession which privileges relationality, or engaged and connected relationships with the self, with others and one's teaching practice. In this article, I examine a bilingual teacher association who use their annual conference as a vehicle to support and strengthen their membership by adopting relationality as a core value of the association. I analyze how bilingual teachers in this association described the impact of relational professionalism on the association, the conference and on their teaching. Through their interviews, I found that these bilingual teachers described how relational professionalism allowed them to reflect on their bilingual teacher occupational identities, promoted a greater sense of confidence in their own pedagogic practice and agency. It also offered diverse opportunities for working together on self-defined goals, or relational agency.
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Professional Associations, Conferences (Gatherings), Interviews, Teacher Attitudes, Professional Identity, Teaching Methods, Professional Autonomy, Neoliberalism, Ethnography, Bilingual Education, School Districts, Hispanic Americans, Masters Degrees, Experienced Teachers, Immigrants, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Instructional Leadership, Participatory Research
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Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Texas
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