Exploring the Theory-Practice Relationship in Educational Leadership Curriculum Though Metaphor
Exploring the Theory-Practice Relationship in Educational Leadership Curriculum Though Metaphor
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通过隐喻探讨教育领导力课程的理论与实践关系
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2005
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Darlene Y. Bruner
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C. Mullen;B. Greenlee;Darlene Y. Bruner
A team of curricular leadership pedagogues report the experience of studying their own classroom practice as they engaged educational leadership (EDL) students in sustained, reflective inquiry for the related purposes of clarifying their own meaning systems and experiencing self-empowerment. This descriptive, exploratory qualitative study encouraged students to inquire into and develop metaphorical images that reveal fundamental complexities and challenges of the theory‐practice relationship. The areas of theory and practice, metaphor, and reflection are reviewed and workshop design and collaborative activities, including Blackboard and metaphoric displays, are described. Students defined theory and practice, used a binocular/integration metaphor to describe the theory‐ practice relationship, applied an architect/builder metaphor to accomplish this end, and created a metaphor of their own. Three patterns emerged from the data: (a) regarding the relationship between theory and practice, discourse connotes separation, interaction, or integration; (b) communication between practitioners and theorists is rooted in authority, distance, and difference; and (c) while power must be equal for focus and balance to occur, disequilibrium characterizes many teacher