Dilemmas, Insights, and Decisions: Understanding and Designing Your Own and Others’ Professional Growth
In this workshop, participants will use the Dynamic Systems Model of Role Identity (DSMRI) as a framework for examining their own professional trajectory as an educator. Using a combination of individual reflection, small group exercises, and whole group discussion, participants will generate a personalized map of their current and future professional identity and growth pathways that reflect their current and anticipated teacher role in particular social and cultural contexts. Participants will also learn principles for applying the DSMRI in design-based and action research with a view to assuming agency in their own and their students’ learning, motivation, development, and academic success.
IBZ (Emil-Figge-Str. 59) Room: to be announced
Dr. Joanna Garner (Old Dominion University - USA)
Dr. Garner is a professor at Old Dominion University (USA) and the Executive Director of The Center for Educational Partnerships. Dr. Garner is a leading voice in the application of complexity theory to educational and psychological phenomena and co-authored the Dynamic Systems Model of Role Identity (DSMRI), an integrative metatheoretical model that captures the interrelations among learning, motivation, and identity formation. Dr. Garner has authored multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes including Developmental Psychology, the Journal of Educational Psychology, Teachers and Teaching Theory and Practice, Professional Development in Education, Science Education, among others. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the United States Education Department, the Office of Naval Research, the Department of Defense Education Activity, the Virginia Department of Education, and the Lemelson Foundation, totaling more than US$14 million in research expenditures. Professor Garner holds a PhD in Educational Psychology, and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Psychology.
