Understanding the Awakening Spirit of A Professional Teaching Force

Abstract

Social, economic and technological changes on a global scale are challenging traditional forms of knowledge and educational practice. In response, educators worldwide are finding ways to forge new roles, identities and relationships.This paper recognizes pressures on the teaching force in a global climate of educational reform. Drawing on data from experienced teachers, the paper elucidates that rich opportunities for professional learning are situated in collective review of challenges and critical incidents where teacher's guilt can be addressed with the choice for personal growth and professional learning. With a framework for tracking how teachers can be liberated from downward drift to negative sentiments, the paper concludes by highlighting the creative energy inside teachers who can rediscover deep values in the rea lities of their everyday professional lives in a journey of co- learning and reclaiming inner power. 目前,全球范圍的社會、經濟和技術變革挑戰著傳統的知識和教育實踐形式。為了回應這些挑戰,世界各地的教育工作者致力于尋求建立新的角色、身份認同和關系。本文分析了在全球教育改革環境下教師面臨的壓力。通過從資深教師(有經驗的教師)中搜集到的資料,本文認為在對挑戰和關鍵事件的集體反思中,存在豐富的專業學習機會,在這些關鍵事件中教師的負疚感可以通過他們對個人成長和專業學習的選擇而設法得到解決。通過建立追蹤教師如何從滑向消極情緒中解放出來的理論框架,本文得出結論,強調了那些能夠在日常專業生活中通過合作學習和利用內在力量重新發現深層價值的教師,有著內在的創造性能量。