ERIC Number: EJ1233680
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 18
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Teacher as Change Agent for Consequential Learning: One Korean Teacher's Autoethnography on the Dance-with-Science Project
Kim, Won Jung
FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, v5 n2 p79-96 2019
Consequential learning is an equity-oriented framework in which students create learning pathways to pursue what matters to themselves and to the communities they care about. In this paper, I seek to identify the moments of consequential learning from a story in which my students and I danced together to express a set of scientific knowledge: change in atomic configuration during photosynthesis while sustaining the total mass as consistent. Taking an autoethnographic approach, I examine the ways in which consequential learning was presented during the project and how I worked as a change agent to support it. Based on findings that show how students and I sought to transform science into a powerful tool to actualize what mattered to them while creating varied patterns of participation, I argue that, as change agents for consequential learning, teachers should take a stance on students as a rightful presence.
Descriptors: Change Agents, Learning Processes, Equal Education, Dance, Teacher Attitudes, Ethnography, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, Interdisciplinary Approach, Scientific Concepts, Middle School Students, Knowledge Level, Teacher Role
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Korea
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