Playing Catch-Up after a Trying Week!

Belcher Exercises:
My Article is About...

teachers and their identities. Specifically, thinking about how hegemonic ideologies influences those identities and how teachers are making meaning of this. Bruner, Cole, Geertz, Johnson all talk about the cultural implications of meaning making and the myths teachers bring with them in to their own pedagogical learning experiences. I know that in TE programs we require a teaching philosophy statement of our interns, campuses require this of teachers also. So, I question identity and philosophy and this document as a way to make more transparent these cultural myths. This is important because teachers are expected to be agents of change in the classroom. This cannot happen in an equitable way in an space overtly or covertly dominated by power and oppression.

What Learned Doing This Exercise
I have a hard time articulating my own ideas. I feel very self-conscious talking about my own work perhaps because I still feel like my writing is not good enough and I am still learning the language of my profession and area of expertise. I also have memory issues, especially with names! This is a real issue for me and does have some physical reasons behind it. I have a hard time not getting on my soap box also.

What I Learned by Reading My Model Article...
My idea is really not that far fetched. As a matter of fact the tone and idea is rather complimentary to the journal mission and several of the articles I read. The one I chose was an article about pedagogy and also connected to theories of a famous theorist. It was not based on actual experimental research but is a theoretical piece. I can do this! What I will need to do my article is really chunk it out and organize the arguments in much more detail/clarity. I will need to find a more critical voice/language.