摘要:
This study investigates the process by which English as a Foreign Language (EFL) student teachers transmute their Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) into Personal Practical Knowledge (PPK) within a blended learning community. Data sources, including conversation transcripts, reflective journals, and field notes, were meticulously examined utilizing the commonplaces of temporality, sociality, and place. Several key findings were unveiled: (1) the volume and focal points of transformed PPK varied across participants; (2) the metamorphosis of PCK into PPK was found to be selectively partial, filtered by factors such as previous learning experiences, course expectations, and levels of engagement; and (3) the selection process was molded within the dynamic interplay of the internal components of the blended learning community and the external socio-cultural conditions. The study concludes that the cognition mechanism of EFL student teachers' PPK is characterized by elements of variation, selection, and dynamism.
期刊:
Professional Development in Education,2023年49(2):297-308 ISSN:1941-5257
通讯作者:
Yan, Chunmei
作者机构:
[Yan, Chunmei] Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Foreign Languages, English Dept, Wuhan, Peoples R China.;[He, Chuanjun; Guo, Xinjine; Wang, Jianyang] Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Foreign Languages, Coll English Dept, Wuhan, Peoples R China.
通讯机构:
[Yan, Chunmei] C;Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Foreign Languages, English Dept, Wuhan, Peoples R China.
关键词:
Chinese female mid-career EFL teacher educators;regional teacher education universities;plateauing
摘要:
Professional development of teacher educators has received growing attention in recent years owing to their important role in preparing teachers for schools and universities, however, female-dominated mid-career EFL teacher educators in regional teacher education universities remain underexplored. This study examined 18 female experienced teacher educators' professional state, teaching beliefs and competence in a non-elite teacher education university. A combination of longitudinal observations, questionnaires, individual interviews, and official documents was employed to gather data. The results reveal the participants' plateauing indicated by their teaching-focused professional identity and the lack of personal and collective agency for professional development and organisational improvement. Personal and contextual factors were found to have caused their perceived lack of professional expertise, research inactivity in the pervading 'publish or perish' climate. The study yields implications to teacher educators, policymakers, and researchers in different educational and cultural contexts.
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Abstract Focusing on The Farming of Bones, Brother, I'm Dying, and the short story “Night Talkers” collected in The Dew Breaker, this article explores how Edwidge Danticat engages with the biopolitics of race in her writing. The biopolitics of race traumatizes people through racial discrimination, exclusion, and purification; in Danticat's works, this is manifested in atrocities inflicted on Haitian workers, the exclusion of asylum seekers, and the deportation of Haitian descendants. Those racially excluded people resist the destructive effects of state racism by creating testimonial narratives to record crimes and atrocities, or by establishing communities for mutual support. Through the dynamics of biopolitical oppression and resistance, Danticat empowers those precarious people and achieves her purpose of political writing: while dissolving the negative influence of biopolitics, she reconstructs individual subjectivities through testimony, and rebuilds fragmented identities through the solidarity of Haitian communities, in order to reaffirm the national identity of the Haitian people.
期刊:
English Language, Literature & Culture,2023年8(1):5-9
作者机构:
Department of English, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
关键词:
Keywords Lacan;Identity;The Big Other;Self-punishment Paranoia;Aphasia
摘要:
Sherwood Anderson’s capture of the subtlety of inner worlds in his short story “Queer” collected in Winesburg, Ohio shows great insights into the complexity and paradoxes of human psychology, in terms of his deep exploration into issues including identity, neurosis and speech impairment, which demonstrate surprising coincidence with symptoms examined by Lacan. Elmer Cowley’s queer behaviors suggest that he has developed “self-punishment paranoia,” a mental disorder Lacan found and examined in his doctoral thesis. The term illustrates the paradoxical and alienating nature of the relationship between subjects and their identities. Elmer’s attacking of George Willard, the only newspaper reporter of Winesburg and the incarnation of the big Other, is equivalent to the attacking of himself, for George serves as Elmer’s ego-ideal through the mechanism of symbolic identification. Besides, the Cowley father and son also show a certain degree of aphasia. The seemingly nonsensical expression about laundry, which the Cowleys often utters unintendedly when they try to confront Winesburg residents, discloses the truth of the unconscious subject that they desire to be normal like other town folks. The Cowleys’ aphasia indicates their failure of being integrated into the Winesburg community. Anderson’s foresights of Lacanian psychoanalysis yet to be born in his time prove the prophet role a truly insightful writer can assume.
作者机构:
[Zou, Shiqian; Ke, Xianbing] Cent China Normal Univ, Wuhan, Peoples R China.;[Ke, Xianbing] Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Foreign Languages, English Dept, 152 Luoyu Rd, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.
通讯机构:
[Ke, X.] C;Central China Normal UniversityChina
作者机构:
[Cai, Lei; Li, Longsheng] Hubei Univ, Sch Foreign Languages, Wuhan, Peoples R China.;[Tan, Hua] Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Foreign Languages, Wuhan, Peoples R China.;[Tan, Hua] Res Ctr Int Commun Hubei Culture, Res Ctr Translat Interpreting & Commun, Res Ctr Coll English Teaching, Wuhan, Peoples R China.
通讯机构:
[Hua Tan] S;School of Foreign Languages, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China<&wdkj&>Member of the Research Center for College English Teaching, Research Center for Translation, Interpreting and Communication, Research Center for International Communication of Hubei Culture, Wuhan, China
摘要:
Linguistic translation theory has been developed along with the evolution of traditional linguistics and philological schools, and then integrated with diversified modern linguistic schools. Many r...
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Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry is widely acclaimed for its sui generis soundscapes, which shows the poet's highly sensitive auditory perception in his literary creations. Soundscapes, in his poetry, play a pivotal role in revealing social malaise-racial inequalities and gender-biased black relations-in the multiracial US. This article thus explores race- and gender-related societal problems mirrored in Komunyakaa's poetry through the prism of soundscapes. It first aims to examine how soundscapes are presented between poetic lines as a culture carrier, and then investigates the disciplinary power and oppositional function of soundscapes. Combining textual close reading with interdisciplinary research methodology, this article brings to light the complexity and specificity of soundscapes in Komunyakaa's poetry. For one thing, the soundscape constructed by the privileged serves as an oppressive force to discipline the disempowered groups; for another, the soundscape the underprivileged produce is utilized as an instrument of resistance and healing, offering them a sonic weapon to deconstruct the oppressive sound imperialism as well as construct the affective community of African Americans. This study not only adds to the research on Komunyakaa's poetry by offering a renewed viewpoint of excavating this poet and his political proposition of equality and equity, but also attracts academic attention to the role of literary soundscape in Afro-American literature in revealing the long-standing societal problems in the US.