The art-therapy collage technique as a tool for teachers' professional reflection

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The art-therapy collage technique as a tool for teachers' professional reflection

Original language description

Social and emotional learning plays an important role in teachers’ training, as it may help them to deeply understand their professional roles, models, challenges etc. The submitted study presents an art-therapy technique of projective thematic collage as a tool for reflection on teachers’ professional identities. The collage, as other techniques of a similar kind, is (among other benefits) a space for personal projection in terms of psychodynamic approaches. The text therefore first introduces the theoretical background of a projection principle as it applies in the collage technique. Using this starting point, the chapter describes the specific possibilities for working with a thematic collage to help teacher trainees achieve a deepened view on themselves as teachers. Using this technique in our concept, we require students to work out a collage on the theme of “Me as a teacher in all her/his positions and roles.” Authors of the collages thus create a metaphorical overview of their perception and experience of the teaching profession in relation to themselves through an artifact. Findings from previous surveys show that the use of thematic collages is very useful for not only reflecting on the profession, but also on the current life situation of the participants. Working with collages enriches participants’ insights into significant findings regarding their emotional experience and broadens their perception of the teaching profession, including their own position within it. These facts develop self-awareness and social awareness among the authors of the collages (students examine their attitudes towards teaching, pupils and themselves as teachers and they realize their emotional experience in this context, but also its possible influence on pupils) and can, in practice, influence (at least) their self-management within school reality.

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

International Approaches to Promoting Social and Emotional Learning in Schools: A Framework for Developing Teaching Strategy

ISBN

978-0-367-55331-9

Number of pages of the result

16

Pages from-to

"131 "- 141

Number of pages of the book

262

Publisher name

Routledge

Place of publication

London

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