Creating a Pedagogical Space that Fosters the (Re)Construction of Self Through Life Stories of Pre-Service English Language Teachers

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Published: Oct 3, 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.19183/how.23.2.293
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Construction of self, life stories, narrative, pre-service English language teachers

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Álvaro Hernán Quintero Polo
Universidad Distrital "Francisco Jose de Caldas"
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0315-8802

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People’s true selves comprise a life story that may be considered as a narrative. With that idea in mind, the purpose of this article is to report on a pedagogical intervention that bridged life stories and a narrative perspective to examine nine, out of eighty, pre-service English language teachers’ (re)construction of their true selves while engaged in a three-step introspective practice. Such (re)construction was manifested in written life stories which were interpreted and found to reveal these main themes: Meaningful Others in Shaping Their Self-as-Teacher, The Human Dimension in the Formation of Teachers of English, and Becoming Teachers of English Who Are Transformative, Instead of Transmissionists.

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Quintero Polo, Álvaro H. (2016). Creating a Pedagogical Space that Fosters the (Re)Construction of Self Through Life Stories of Pre-Service English Language Teachers. HOW, 23(2), 106–124. https://doi.org/10.19183/how.23.2.293
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Vol. 23 No. 2: (July/December 2016)
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Reports on Pedagogical Experiences

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Álvaro Hernán Quintero Polo, Universidad Distrital "Francisco Jose de Caldas"

Álvaro Hernán Quintero Polo is a doctoral candidate in education from Universidad Santo Tomás (Colombia). He is an associate teacher of the BA in Basic Education program with an Emphasis on English at Universidad Distrital in Bogotá, Colombia. He is a co-director of the research group Estudios Críticos de Políticas Educativas Colombianas.
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