Page 6e Wittgenstein would call this kind of analysis interpretation, or the primary expression of experience. The “experience” being interpreted here is one of seeing one’s own teaching.
What is a case was a topic of a previous symposium.
The Transana interface. The methodology: Video corpus loaded into Transana. Teacher uses Transana to view video, select clips of important experience, develop personal keywords to describe experience, annotate clips. System summarizes qualitative data, computes descriptive statistics.
Wittgensten (the ultimate point of view theorist) also thought point of view was a form of understanding. (p. 102e)
Wittgenstein’s theory suggests an interesting way to study the conceptual lenses that teachers use
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Teacher clips, keywords in yellow. Three instances of point of view (based on teacher annotations and clip selections) Video 1: In lecture, introducing point of view of male African American scholar opposed to teaching Huck Finn, reads argument and quotes. Video 2 (below): In informal whole-class discussion, introduces point of view of female African American scholar in favor of teaching, invites class to respond to one of her arguments. Video 3 (upper right): White male athletes explore issues of race and culture, perhaps for first time.
Importance of this finding: Ties data on teacher reflection to other empirical findings in event perception literature, that an important type of “unit” of perception is the causal/structural event. The implication for teacher education is to teach concepts that provide a language of action. Concepts should be tied to ideas about what a teacher can do. The possible generalizability of this finding needs to be investigated.
Correlates of POV: Further analyses to be completed