The Role of Critical Reflexivity in the Professional Development of Professional Developers: A Co-Autoethnographic Exploration

• In Event: Millennium Hotel Roundtable Session 13
  In Roundtable Session: Applications of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy

Abstract

The proposed presentation focuses on findings from a co-autoethnography in a collaborative project in which two classroom teachers work together with university researchers to facilitate professional development workshops in science education for elementary teachers. Grounded in critical theoretical perspectives, we have undertaken autoethnographies to examine our own professional development in the process of facilitating the professional development of our colleagues. In the proposed paper presentation we seek to elaborate four claims regarding what has emerged from the processes of reflection, dialogue, and action that we engaged in. Thus, the goal is to examine the professional development of the professional developers themselves (the five authors of this proposal), through a reflexive process of collaborative autoethnography (“co-autoethnography”) grounded on dialogue and reflection.

Authors

• Kerstin te Heesen, University of Luxembourg

• Christina Siry, University of Luxembourg

• Sara E.D. Wilmes, University of Luxembourg

• Nora Kneip, University of Luxembourg

• Sandy Heinericy, University of Luxembourg