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Decision-making: a reflective journey of the lived experiences of experienced teachers

Allan, Chad Everett
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7694-4284
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1542390211994784

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2018, PHD, Kent State University, College of Education, Health and Human Services / School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies.
This naturalistic inquiry study explored and interpreted the phenomenon of decision-making of three practicing experienced teachers and how their pivotal lived experiences influence their teacher decisions and practices. The teachers, who had lived or were living through pivotal life events while teaching, were interviewed in a series of four in-depth interviews, including reflecting on and interpreting life artifacts as representations of their experiences. Analysis through two stages, naturalistic inquiry and interpretative phenomenology approaches, showed that their pivotal lived experiences enter the classroom and influence their existing practice and various forms of decisions; academic, social-personal, humanistic, time and philosophical. The findings show that these teachers engage in reflecting on their practices but do not think about the processes or influences on their decisions. While reflecting and co-interpreting, they made meaning of their experiences and showed that life experiences orient them to their lifeworlds in physical and philosophical ways within the crafted spaces of teaching. Decisions reflected those orientations, and dispositions and philosophies emerged and were directly connected to the experience of experiencing life. The findings showed that training, previous beliefs and orientations of these teachers are not the only guiding forces in how they make decisions; pivotal lived experiences influence how they form their identities, develop their worldviews and social perceptions, promote social justice and empathy in the classroom, and how the culture and environment of their teaching world and teaching spaces are crafted by their decision-making, influenced by what is experienced outside of the teaching world.
Alicia R. Crowe (Committee Chair)
340 p.
Education Philosophy; Educational Theory; Teaching
decision-making; teachers; lived experiences; reflection; reflective practice; teaching world; experienced teachers; teaching life; decision-maker; influences on decisions; phenomenology; naturalistic inquiry; experiences

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  • Allan, C. E. (2018). Decision-making: a reflective journey of the lived experiences of experienced teachers [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1542390211994784

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Allan, Chad. Decision-making: a reflective journey of the lived experiences of experienced teachers. 2018. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1542390211994784.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Allan, Chad. "Decision-making: a reflective journey of the lived experiences of experienced teachers." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1542390211994784

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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