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http://www.diva-portal.org

Postprint

This is the accepted version of a paper presented at BERA 2014.

Citation for the original published paper:

Larsson, J., Airey, J. (2014)

Searching for stories: The training environment as a constituting factor in the professionalidentity

work of future physics teachers..

In: 2014 British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, London september 2014

N.B. When citing this work, cite the original published paper.

Permanent link to this version:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-233333

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SEARCHING FOR STORIES

Johanna Larsson, John Airey Uppsala University [email protected]

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Aim of my project

Study the system of physics teacher education as an important place where new physics teachers begin to create their professional identity

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Teacher education in Sweden

•  Three environments –  Education department –  Physics department –  School

•  Short and long program •  Higher education institutions

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Teacher education as a system of discourses

“[Discourse] allows (and requires) people to be (for a time and place) socioculturally distinctive who's and to accomplish socioculturally distinctive what's. These who's and what's are always defined, partially, in opposition to other sorts of who's and what's, and are always related to models of what count as "valuable" (and "normal") people, activities, and things.”

(Gee 2005)

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Professional identity as stories

Many different ways of using and defining professional identity (see overview in Beijaard, Meijer, & Verloop, 2004) Definition in this project: Professional identity as consisting of the set of narratives teachers tell about being a teacher.

(Connelly & Clandinin, 1999) These narratives are made of and need to be related to the discourse models of the education

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Research questions

1. What is signalled as valued (and not valued) by members of the three environments physics teachers meet during their training (school, education department, physics department)? 2. What discourse models can be identified from these value statements? 3. What is the potential consequence of these discourse models on the narratives trainee physics teachers can tell about themselves as professionals?

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Data collection

Semi structured interviews with 9 teachers (3 from each environment)

–  What is important for students to learn? –  What is special about being a physics teacher? –  What should your part of the education contribute?

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Coding

Iterative coding of interview transcripts

–  What is valued? –  What should the students learn? –  What is the goal in this environment?

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Analysis

Skolfysiken

lampor och sånt - rebecka

Tråkigytlig

spretig

Forskningsfronten

kan göras relevent genom potentialen att leda tillUniversitetsfysiken

leder till undervisning i

leder till deltagande i

de andra studenterna . Cosmic explorer längtar till forskningsfronten

andra saker som gör relevant eller intressant

varagsförståelsedemokratisaspekter

naturvetenskaplig skolning

?????

djup

visioner, emfaser?

har en starkare koppling än i andra ämnen

lärare behöver hålla sig uppdaterade om

läraren behöver vara uppdaterad för attkunna svara på frågor. Alla fysikpersonerna

utom Olle (?) säger

Lärarstudenten

läser

ska använda undervisa i

oinspirerande

gammal

beskrivs i intervjuer

ger vidare studier i

påväg mot

intressant

inspirerande

Jag menar sen är det väl ocks? s? att att, alla vill väl egentligen h?lla p? med forskning och s?nt allts?. Vill göra n?nting där man gör n?tt kreativt nytt [ja]. Ja. Det är väl

m?let för dom ?esta va. Att bara, egentligen rapa upp vad andra har gjort, det känns ju liksom, det är ju andra ordningens, allts?, det är inte riktigt samma sak va.

Sen kan det va kul och det kan va väl, det kan va nyttigt p? n?tt sätt va. Men det är ju, men det är ju inte det, det är ju inte, det är ju inte eh, lärarna som, som egentligen eh, för eh, ök, för landet, ass? ökande

bruttonationalprodukt eller bidrar p? det viset va. (Olle LLUare)

Men just att man p? n?tt vis kan träna sig p? att h?lla ögonen öppna och f?nga upp det som är, kan va viktigt eller intressant. För d? kan det bli lite s? här att man kan ta med sig n?tt kul och nytt och fräscht till klassrummet även om man st?r och pratar om liksom (skrattar) eh ja, batterier och lamper s? kan man liksom änd?:

det här s?g jag i ny teknik i förrg?r [mm], det här är jättehäftigt tycker jag. För d? kan man f? lite mer entusiasm ocks? [aa] för ämnet som s?dant.

(Rebecka, fysiker)

blir intressant genom att bli istoppad delar av

Och d? försöka f? n?nting som ger lite vidare perspektiv p? vad man kan göra med den här kursen. (...) jag har pratat med dom p? geofysik

institutionen och sagt, ja. Och dom sa ju det att vi har problem med att rekrytera studenter [ja]. S? det var en väldigt stor baktanke där att ha n?n fr?n, n?tt s?nt ämne [mm] och att fundera p? vem jag kan gräva upp till nästa kurs.

Men just för att säga, man f?r lite inspiration. Fr?n n?tt annat h?ll [mm].(Rebecka, fysiker)

Och sen är det säkert ofta s? att man har, en, en vision om vad man ska, vad man tycker är kul, som inte alls är överensstämmande med den kursplan

som man tvingas följa. Men det har jag väl ocks? lärt mig att acceptera själv för s? upplevde jag ju själv ocks? liksom att man. Tar ett steg typ 350 ?r tillbaka i tiden [mm] när man börjar. Och sen liksom början man resan fram?t.

(Gustav, fysiker)

Kan göras relevant och intressant genom

Och sen sist men inte minst d? det är ju naturligtvis att man m?ste ocks? känna att jag g?r ut med visionen att jag ska attrahera i min naturklass liksom 80%

vilja bli fysiker när jag blir klar med dom(Gustav, fysiker)

en ideal lärare p? gymnasieniv? har en otroligt sv?r balansg?ng mellan att uppfylla klassm?len och samtidigt f? studenter,

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Eh, men samtidigt s? kan det ju vara bra om jag vet till exempel att n?n tänker bli meteorolog eller om jag har, ett visst antal som tänker sp?ra in p? meteorologi eller hydrologi eller geofysik eller n?nting s?nt (...)

Men d? kanske man kunde, ja, bara slänga in n?n möjlig tillämpning om fält eller vad det nu är s? kan man ju liksom baka in det i den här motiveringen till vad man kan använda

det till senare [mm]. Men jag menar för lärarstudenterna dom ska ju helt kunna alltihopa [ja]. Ja, s? jag vet inte.

bredd

Varför denna rörelse?

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att här skulle jag vilja h?lla p?. Det hade jag inte utan, jag kände nog mer för det här lärar-läraryrket. Lockande. 'Jag: Du säger va bredd?

Henrik: Ja precis, att h?lla p? med, jag hade inget s?nt där favoritomr?de som jag gillade att h?lla p? med utan jag tyckte om helheten. Jag: Vad är det som avgör d? om man blir en s?n här labbr?tta eller om man hamnar som fysik?

Henrik: Jag tror det är den hära sociala aspekten, att man är mera, att är man den hära som kan grott, sitta och som älskar ? sitta och grotta ner sig med n?tt problem i väldigt l?ng tid eller vill man va en s?n hära social person

som är mera ut?triktad, d? är man nog mera lärarpersonen tror jag.(Henrik LLUare)

Henrik sägerelever frågar om,intresserade av

Nej. Eh, dom behandlade oss precis som alla andra studenter. [mm] Det blev ju att vi ibland blev kallad för lärarstudenterna när va, nu ska dom här och lärarstudenterna g? dit [aa].

Det var väl att vi va den gruppen. Men ass? det var inte s? att vi ?ck annorlunda tentor eller prov eller s? vidare utan allting var ju likadant. Det var ju bara att vi läste, fysikdidaktik när dom läste,

ehm, nu kommer jag inte ih?g vad dom läste. (...) Jag har ingen aning om vad dom läste. Men allts? dom läste n?gon kurs [aa], annan kurs än vad vi läste. Men annars lästa jag ju i stort sett samma, jag läste transformmetoder och [mm]. Vi hade lite andra kurser till exempel matematik, tal och räkning tror jag den hette. Ml ML1, väldigt bra kurs att läsa

[mm], inte den sv?raste kursen jag läst. Men allts? att man behandlas ju precis som dom andra(Stefan LLUare

Jag: ja, Men vilken sorts människor tänker du att det är som gör de här valen att läsa till till lärare i naturvetenskap eller fysik? A: Ass? d? tror jag nog att dom är, man kanske inte är s?här super

duper duper naturvetare kan jag tänka. (...) M an kanske har n?n slags ide om att kunskap är viktigt i allmänhet och att man kan göra n?n slags skillnad eller att man kan göra det snarare än att man bara fokuserar p? sitt ämne.

Jag vet inte. Ass? att det ?nns andra aspekter än själva ämnet i sig som gör att man väljer att bli lärare. N?n slags samhällsengagemang eller n?tt s?nt där som gör att man tycker att den biten av läraryrket ocks? är viktigt.

vad heter det? När manblir bättre allmänt av att träna ett visst ämne

(olle)

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School physics

University physics

Subject expert

Purpose/goal

unexciting

exciting

fragmentedbroad

interest,excitement

purposeinterest,excitement

focuseddeep

broad

deep

Curriculum implementer

Purpose/goal

Pedagogical core courses Teacher education physics

School placement

Practically well equipped teacher

Purpose/goal

practical Pedagogical core coursesPedagogical core courses

Critically reflective teacher

Purpose/goal

theoretical

School physics

University physics

sees critically

School placement

Discourse models

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Physics expert

School physics

University physics

Subject expert

Purpose/goal

unexciting

exciting

fragmentedbroad

interest,excitement

purposeinterest,excitement

focuseddeep

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Physics expert

“And last, but not least of course, [a physics teacher] have to feel that you have the vision to make at least 80% of your students to want to become a physicist after taking your class.”

(Lecturer in the physics department)

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Physics expert

“What everyone really wants to, to work with is research. You want to do something that is new and creative. That’s got to be the goal for most people, right? To just repeat what others have done feels — that’s second order, it´s not the same thing. Then of course it can be important and useful but it´s still not like the teachers contribute to the country's GDP.”

Practical training supervisor

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Physics expert

“A really good upper secondary teacher has an incredibly hard job to do to meet the learning goals and still be able to make the students feel that physics is really fun, something that they want to continue doing”

Lecturer at the physics department

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Physics expert

“That you learn to keep your eyes open to catch what might be important or interesting. Because then you can take something new and fun to the classroom even if you’re talking about batteries (laughing) and bulbs you can still: — ‘I saw this really cool thing in (a technical journal) the day before yesterday.’ Because then you can generate some enthusiasm for the subject “

Lecturer at the physics department

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Critically reflective teacher

Pedagogical core courses

Critically reflective teacher

Purpose/goal

theoretical

School physics

University physics

sees critically

School placement

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Critically reflective teacher

“The danger of teaching practical skills is that it is all too easy to reproduce subject traditions. […] And then you don´t want to teach practical things at all for fear of becoming unscientific”

Lecturer at the education department

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Practically well equipped teacher

Practically well equipped teacher

Purpose/goal

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Practically well equipped teacher

School placement

Practically well equipped teacher

Purpose/goal

practical Pedagogical core courses

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Practically well equipped teacher

“…how am I gonna plan my teaching? How do I know if I should do group-work or a small project? Or, how do you get kids to write decent lab-reports? To on an every-day basis discuss the choices a teacher need to make. We can never, we have way to few hours and it´s not our task anymore to teach the teacher students these things.”

Lecturer in the education department

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The system: tensions

School physics

University physics

Subject expert

Purpose/goal

unexciting

exciting

fragmentedbroad

interest,excitement

purposeinterest,excitement

focuseddeep

broad

deep

Curriculum implementer

Purpose/goal

Pedagogical core courses Teacher education physics

School placement

Practically well equipped teacher

Purpose/goal

practical Pedagogical core coursesPedagogical core courses

Critically reflective teacher

Purpose/goal

theoretical

School physics

University physics

sees critically

School placement

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Stories about being a teacher

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The fallen angel

“I never wanted to become a teacher. Because in contrast to other teachers I was a top student. I was one of the best in Sweden, in mathematics and physics.”

Practical training supervisor

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The fallen angel

“In the beginning I made one of the other teachers angry with me when I said that I was the only physicist in the school, the others were physics teachers. Because it’s not until you’ve been the leader of a research group you can really call yourself a physicist.”

Practical training supervisor

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The fallen angel

One of the things that surprised me when I started, because I was really the kind of person to do research, was that I really like the students. The social part of teaching. That part is hard to know about in beforehand.

Practical training supervisor

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The facilitator

“...to become a researcher, something I think I might become in the future, you never know. Instead of teaching, I guess research is more about the mysteries of the universe, into physics. To move the frontier a bit further. That is not really what you do as a teacher, I don't move the frontier every day. I´m more in a teaching bubble, to teach the students so that they themselves can take that step someday.”

Practical training supervisor

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Questions – further work

How can these models be connected to teacher students own stories about being/becoming a teacher?

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Thank you!

[email protected]

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References

Beijaard, D., Meijer, P. C., & Verloop, N. (2004). Reconsidering research on teachers’ professional identity. Teaching and Teacher Education, 20(2), 107–128.

Connelly, F. M., & Clandinin, D. J. (1999). Shaping a professional identity : stories of educational practice. New York: Teachers College Press.

Gee, J. P. (2005). An introduction to discourse analysis : theory and method. New York: Routledge.

Sfard, A., & Prusak, A. (2005). Telling Identities: In Search of an Analytic Tool for Investigating Learning as a Culturally Shaped Activity. Educational Researcher, 34(4), 14–22.