Identity and Inquiry: Reflecting on the Role of Research in Educational Settings
Jenny Taylorson
5 episodes
1 week ago
Using my own journey as an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) teacher, we’ll reflect on how research influences who we are and how we work. Through an autoethnographic lens—combining personal experience with broader professional contexts—I invite you to consider your own identity and relationship with research. Together, we’ll uncover how engaging with research can transform both our practice and sense of self.
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Using my own journey as an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) teacher, we’ll reflect on how research influences who we are and how we work. Through an autoethnographic lens—combining personal experience with broader professional contexts—I invite you to consider your own identity and relationship with research. Together, we’ll uncover how engaging with research can transform both our practice and sense of self.
Episode 5 - How to Explore the Role of Research in your own Professional Identity
Identity and Inquiry: Reflecting on the Role of Research in Educational Settings
20 minutes 48 seconds
9 months ago
Episode 5 - How to Explore the Role of Research in your own Professional Identity
In this final episode of the podcast course, we bring everything together, exploring the personal and professional journey of engaging with research. We start by creating a personal definition of research, grounded in the idea that research is a social process situated within communities of practice. The episode also delves into autoethnography—a reflective research method that has been central to this podcast—and breaks down how it can be used to examine the relationship between research and professional identity. Through sharing personal experiences, connections to key literature, and theory, this episode invites you not only to reflect on your own professional identity and the role research plays in it, but to use autoethnography as a tool to help you in this reflective process. Whether you’re part of the EAP community, another area of higher education, or an entirely different professional group, the tools and ideas discussed here aim to spark your thinking about how your experiences and the communities you’re part of shape your approach to research. Tune in for a reflective, practical, and thought-provoking conclusion to the series!
Identity and Inquiry: Reflecting on the Role of Research in Educational Settings
Using my own journey as an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) teacher, we’ll reflect on how research influences who we are and how we work. Through an autoethnographic lens—combining personal experience with broader professional contexts—I invite you to consider your own identity and relationship with research. Together, we’ll uncover how engaging with research can transform both our practice and sense of self.
