Dialogues with the Past Self and the Past Research Partners: Reflection and Reflexivity across Time.

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Title:	Dialogues with the Past Self and the Past Research Partners: Reflection and Reflexivity across Time.
Authors:	Watanabe, Atsuko¹ atsuko-w@bunkyo.ac.jp, Iwata, Yuko² yukoiwatayuko@gmail.com
Source:	TESL-EJ. Aug2025, Vol. 29 Issue 2, p1-19. 19p.
Subject Terms:	Reflective learning, Teacher educators
Abstract:	This paper is based on a study conducted ten years ago at one university in Japan aiming at collaborative development through reflection among a teacher educator, two in-service teachers, and four pre-service graduate students. Collaborative reflection involved methods, such as the graduate students' observation of the in-service teachers' English language lessons and the joint journal entries among the three parties. Though the teacher educator and in-service teachers had attempted to facilitate the graduate students' engagement in reflection, the research seemed to have finished with a sense of incompleteness. The present study, through taking the autoethnographic and duoethnographic approaches between an in-service teacher and the teacher educator from the past study, reexamined the past data for continuing professional development. The research question posed is how we develop as teachers/researchers through dialogues with the past self and the past research partners (graduate students and the other in-service teacher), and collaborative dialogues with the current co-researcher. The intricate interplays of the self, the co-researcher, and the past students across time brought forth multidimensional arenas for reflection. The study suggests the benefits of reflection on previous data for continuing professional development as reflective practice is a collaborative and iterative learning endeavor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:	This paper is based on a study conducted ten years ago at one university in Japan aiming at collaborative development through reflection among a teacher educator, two in-service teachers, and four pre-service graduate students. Collaborative reflection involved methods, such as the graduate students' observation of the in-service teachers' English language lessons and the joint journal entries among the three parties. Though the teacher educator and in-service teachers had attempted to facilitate the graduate students' engagement in reflection, the research seemed to have finished with a sense of incompleteness. The present study, through taking the autoethnographic and duoethnographic approaches between an in-service teacher and the teacher educator from the past study, reexamined the past data for continuing professional development. The research question posed is how we develop as teachers/researchers through dialogues with the past self and the past research partners (graduate students and the other in-service teacher), and collaborative dialogues with the current co-researcher. The intricate interplays of the self, the co-researcher, and the past students across time brought forth multidimensional arenas for reflection. The study suggests the benefits of reflection on previous data for continuing professional development as reflective practice is a collaborative and iterative learning endeavor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:	10724303
DOI:	10.55593/ej.29114s8