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ERIC Number: EJ1152211
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1523-5882
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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.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Texas
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