Reflective Journal Writing on the Way to Becoming Teachers

dc.creator	Feyza Doyran
dc.date	2013-03-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:21:34Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:21:34Z
dc.identifier	1305-9076
dc.identifier	1305-905X
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/8eab762859224324abb12a488e5028e1
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/29033
dc.description	In this qualitative research study, the purpose was to analyze the reflective journal entries of the 26 pre-service teachers attending the teacher education department of a state university. These teacher candidates were asked to write their reflections on a weekly basis during the “school experience” course in the fall semester. Twelve weekly entries and the end of the year reflection reports of these pre-service teachers (338 documents all together) were analyzed according to the contents; similar issues were coded; common themes were found; in the second phase, the findings were analyzed again in the light of reflective practice research to find out about the learning experiences of the pre-service teachers and to analyze in which stage of reflective practice their entries mostly fell into. The results revealed that pre-service teachers benefitted from keeping reflective journals and their reflections mostly fell under the “interpersonal stage” and did not have many comments reflecting the other stages which were procedural and conceptual. The results show that in order for the pre-service teachers to gain more awareness through reflective writing, they need to be trained on how to write reflections effectively and on the different stages related to the reflective practice.
dc.language	English
dc.language	Turskish
dc.publisher	World Education, Science, Research and Counseling Center
dc.relation	http://www.world-education-center.org/index.php/cjes/article/view/8.1.12
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1305-9076
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1305-905X
dc.rights	CC BY-NC
dc.source	Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences , Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 160-168 (2013)
dc.subject	School experience
dc.subject	reflective journals
dc.subject	pre-service teachers/student-teachers
dc.subject	foreign language teacher education
dc.subject	document/content analysis.
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Reflective Journal Writing on the Way to Becoming Teachers
dc.type	article