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Abstract
This study engaged grounded theory methodology to explore how critical pedagogy shaped and influenced the development of critical consciousness among preservice teacher candidates. The teacher participants revealed that facilitating critical consciousness was a complex process influenced by pedagogical and institutional mechanisms. The pedagogical mechanism of coercive power and the institutional mechanism of compressed time both limited opportunities for student agency and constrained the development of critical consciousness. Two professors were successful in countering the negative consequences of these institutional and pedagogical mechanisms by enacting a legitimate form of power and facilitating dialogical learning contexts. These efforts are highlighted in the paper as key attributes of consciousness raising learning experiences among the preservice teachers.
Keywords: preservice teachers, critical pedagogy, critical consciousness, Faculty of Education, course-based learning experiences
Cette etude, qui repose sur une methodologie inspiree de la theorie a base empirique, explore la mesure dans laquelle la pedagogie critique a influence le developpement d’une conscience critique chez des enseignants en formation. Les enseignants participants ont revele que la promotion de la conscience critique est un processus complexe qui est influence par des mecanismes pedagogiques et institutionnels. Le mecanisme pedagogique du pouvoir coercitif et le mecanisme institutionnel du calendrier comprime limitent tous les deux la marge de manœuvre des etudiants et contraignent le developpement de la conscience critique. Deux professeurs ont reussi a contrer les consequences negatives de ces mecanismes institutionnels et pedagogiques en exercant une forme de pouvoir legitime et en facilitant des contextes d’apprentissage dialogique. L’article presente ces efforts comme etant les caracteristiques principales des experiences d’apprentissage ayant favorise la prise de conscience chez les enseignants en formation.
Mots cles: enseignants en formation; pedagogie critique; conscience critique; faculte d’education; experiences d’apprentissage basees sur les cours
期刊介绍:
The Alberta Journal of Educational Research is a quarterly journal devoted to the dissemination, criticism, interpretation, and encouragement of all forms of systematic inquiry into education and fields related to or associated with education