Using Self-Study to Examine Our Research and Teaching Practices as EFL Teacher Educators in Colombia

Abstract

In this chapter, we use self-study to explain the ways we enact community pedagogy in socioeconomically and culturally diverse school contexts in Bogotá, Colombia. We use our personal and professional journeys as language teachers, teacher educators, and researchers to show key experiences in our life stories and teaching trajectories that have influenced our teaching and research praxis. Our main interest as researchers and practitioners was to connect school curricula to the life of children and teachers in schools. Self-study helped us identify and problematize our identities and positions as foreign language teachers who espouse valuing of local knowledge. Through reflection and implementing field experiences with practicing teachers in professional development sessions in schools, we felt that we achieved such connection to develop the mindset for critical pedagogy.

Citation

Olarte, A.C. and Galindo, M.R. (2018), "Using Self-Study to Examine Our Research and Teaching Practices as EFL Teacher Educators in Colombia", Self-Study of Language and Literacy Teacher Education Practices (Advances in Research on Teaching, Vol. 30), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 37-53. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-368720180000030003