A 21st Century Teacher’s Character Journey: An Autoethnographic Exploration and Narrative Retelling of ELA Teachers’ Perception and Implementation of 21st Century Education

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A 21st Century Teacher’s Character Journey: An Autoethnographic Exploration and Narrative Retelling of ELA Teachers’ Perception and Implementation of 21st Century Education
Abstract
The author notes that education is often prescriptive in nature and teachers within this institution are asked to interpret the government curriculum and use their own materials and methods to teach their disciplines. She points out that with the accelerated changes in educational devices and learning models, teachers have had to navigate the new 21st century learning space under a working definition of what it means to be a 21st century teacher in a 21st century classroom. In this auto-ethnography, the author explores what 21st century education means to in-the-field teachers, how it informs their pedagogy, and how it shapes their teaching identities, as well as her own, through interactive interviewing and storytelling. The author uses a narrative approach to construct a story in which five participating English Language Arts (ELA) teachers from a high school, in the Greater Montreal Area, reveal their subjective experiences and reflections as they learn to define and describe 21st century learning through their own words and interpretations. The literary technique of characterization allowed the author to understand her own role in the 21st century as an educator. Collaborative story making, told through the eyes of a first-person narrative, has produced a narrative that reveals how teachers’ unique perceptions and implementations of their crafts can contribute to a descriptive account of 21st century education that is as nuanced and diverse as those who teach within its framework.
Type
Master's Thesis
University
McGill University
Place
Montreal
Date
2022
# of Pages
157p.
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Language
en
Citation
Lanzette, Maria-Caterina. “A 21st Century Teacher’s Character  Journey: An Autoethnographic Exploration and Narrative  Retelling of ELA Teachers’ Perception and  Implementation of 21st Century Education.” Master’s Thesis, McGill University, 2022. https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/zs25xg11h.
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