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SUMMARY:Doctoral Student Lunch Seminar: Mediating ARTefacts: using visual 
 methods to facilitate teacher reflection - Sophia D'Angelo
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:This study uses arts-based inquiry and other visual methods to
  explore teachers’ and students’ understandings of effective pedagogy 
 in the context of the Dominican Republic. Centred around Vygotsky’s (197
 8) sociocultural theory of learning and Schön’s (1938) notion of the re
 flective practitioner\, the study seeks to reveal teachers’ and students
 ’ deeply entrenched assumptions\, values\, and beliefs that govern teach
 ing and learning processes. Both teachers and students will participate in
  the construction of creative artefacts that combine visual and textual da
 ta. Artefacts made by students are then fed back to teachers through cycle
 s of inquiry in order to further facilitate reflection and to use student 
 voice to engage teachers in collaborative professional inquiry. The resear
 ch is designed with an ethnographic lens that conceptualises art as anothe
 r cultural tool used to make meaning of one’s world and surrounding envi
 ronment. It supports a conceptualisation of teaching and learning that is 
 both technical (effective) and relational (affective) and thus uses art as
  another means for teachers and students to portray their cognitive and em
 otional selves.\n\n*Sophia D’Angelo* is a first year PhD student at the 
 Faculty of Education’s REAL Centre. Last year she completed an MPhil in 
 Education\, Globalisation\, and International Development and focused her 
 thesis research on teacher professional development in the context of Sub-
 Saharan Africa. Prior to this\, Sophia lived and worked in the Dominican R
 epublic for four years\, teaching at the university\, primary\, and second
 ary levels both in the public and private sectors\, and completing a Princ
 eton in Latin America Fellowship as a teacher trainer in a Dominican educa
 tional non-profit. She is passionate about culture\, creating culturally s
 ensitive classrooms\, and designing culturally relevant curriculum to trai
 n teachers of immigrants\, refugees\, and other marginalised youth.\n
LOCATION:Mary Allen Building\, Homerton College\, Hills Road\, room 104
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