PDAGOGICAL INNOVATION: FROM

SEMANTICS TO IDEOLOGY

Dalit Levy Zefat Academic College, Israel

Lea Baratz Achva College, Israel

Digital Learning Research Network conference - dLRN2015Stanford, CA, October 16, 2015

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What do you see?

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Words of Pedagogical Innovation

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[What is Hybrid Pedagogy?]combines critical pedagogy and digital pedagogy to arrive at the best social and civil uses for technology and new media in education.

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PURPOSE OF OUR STUDY

• To investigate the use of the semantic term innovation as it finds expression in teacher educators' definitions

• To reveal connections between ideology and the “language of innovation” of teacher educators

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RESEARCH QUESTIONS

• What is “the language of innovation” of Israeli teacher educators?

• In what ways does it express a new kind of educational reality? Or, is it a semantic habit that gives expression to the socio-economic trends and ideologies?

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THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

Language and ideology (i.e. Cameron, 2006; Eisenberg-Kenah, 2004)

Ideology of teacher educators and its influence on their attitudes (Perrotta, 2013, Baratz & Levy, in press)

Innovations – ideological trends (i.e. Rogers, 2002)

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THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

• When speaking of ideology, we assume a habitus of people sharing an environment that allows for a common understanding and interpretation of orientations and beliefs.• These shared understandings

direct the way people view situations and perceive reality.

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A research tool was designed to collect teacher educators' stories about their experiences

The respondents were first asked to characterize elements of pedagogical innovation from their field of practice, according to the principle of a "small story" (Bamberg, 2006)

At the end, they were asked to provide a definition of pedagogical innovation

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METHOD

A research tool was designed to collect teacher educators' stories

The respondents were first asked to characterize elements of pedagogical innovation from their field of practice, according to the principle of a "small story" (Bamberg, 2006)

At the end, the respondents were asked to provide a definition of pedagogical innovation

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1. Describe a situation in which you applied “Pedagogical innovation”

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A research tool was designed to collect teacher educators' stories

The respondents were first asked to characterize elements of pedagogical innovation from their field of practice, according to the principle of a "small story" (Bamberg, 2006)

At the end, the respondents were asked to provide a definition of pedagogical innovation

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7. Define “Pedagogical innovation” according to your own point of view.

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110 responses were collected (in a narrative form), from teacher educators in 7 colleges of education around Israel

An inductive analysis was carried out in three stages

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1. Describe a situation in which you applied “Pedagogical innovation”

“Today I demonstrated to students how a smartphone could be used to increase interest in and the understanding of a particular teaching subject”

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. יישמתי איתה יחד שלי המתודיקה לשיעורי אותה וצרפתי זה לאתגרהספרות בהוראת המחשב עבור שילוב במיוחד שהכנתי רציונל לפי

.... האסיסטנטית זו המחשב סיטואציה המהלכים מתחום בכל לי סייעהלפתח הסטודנטיות יכלו ממוחשבים ובעזרתה הוראה מגיבה..." ) מערכי

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1. Describe a situation in which you applied “Pedagogical innovation”

“I used pedagogical innovation three years ago …when integrating computers in teaching literature … The assistant helped me in developing computerized lessons”.

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"I don’t think I innovate. I may be dusting off approaches of Rogers and other humanistic educators.“

"Innovation is no more than buzz words.”

7. Define “Pedagogical innovation” according to your own point of view.

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"Pedagogical innovation is to approach each learner with the 'key' that is appropriate to him/her in order to reach maximum cognitive achievements in the accepted academic framework”

7. Define “Pedagogical innovation” according to your own point of view.

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“Pedagogical innovation is teaching and learning strategies that fulfill the requirements of current learning theories and social educational perspectives. It is a way to cope with ideas that arise in the field or from the difficulties in the field."

7. Define “Pedagogical innovation” according to your own point of view.

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TEACHER EDUCATORS’ DISCOURSE OF PEDAGOGICAL

INNOVATION

NO INNOVATIO

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SUGGEST A DEFINITION

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MENTION TECHNOLOGIE

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SUGGEST RENEWED

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NO INNOVATIO

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TEACHER EDUCATORS’ DISCOURSE OF PEDAGOGICAL

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3. FUTURE THINKIN

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1. GENERAL TERMS

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MENTION TECHNOLOGIE

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• OER• OPENNESS• OPEN

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SO, WHAT CHARACTERIZES COLLEGE TEACHERS’ “LANGUAGE OF INNOVATION”?

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• Traces of skepticism: “Nothing new under the sun”

• Strong presence of the digital age

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SO, WHAT CHARACTERIZES COLLEGE TEACHERS’ “LANGUAGE OF INNOVATION”?

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• Components of semantic habits give expression to the trends of socio-economic policy-makers

• Criticism with regard to having to cope with innovation (also) in the professional educational field

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The discussion of innovation among Israeli

teacher educators seems to differ from what can be found in

other professional “communities of

practice” (agriculture, environment, health, high-tech, business

development, science…)

SO, WHAT CHARACTERIZES COLLEGE TEACHERS’ “LANGUAGE OF INNOVATION”?

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Last but not least …• The ideology influences the

semantic use of the concept of innovation

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Institution-

centered ideology

Teacher- centered ideology

Learner- centered ideology

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Last but not least …• The ideology influences the

semantic use of the concept of innovation

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Institution-

centered ideology

Teacher- centered ideology

Learner- centered ideology

Pedagogical innovation is defined as a path for better teaching

Pedagogical innovation

= tool for educating the good learner

Pedagogical innovation =

development of contributing citizens