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T1 Phenomenological research on professsional knowledge and educational relationship building
A1 Martín-Alonso, Diego
A1 Blanco-García, Nieves
K1 Profesores - Formación profesional
AB Following Dewey’s (1997) and Schwab’s (2013) ideas, Clandinin & Connelly (1992) developedtheir notion of teacher as curriculum maker, it means, the “teacher not so much as a maker ofcurriculum but as a part of it and to imagine a place for contexts, culture (Dewey´s notion ofinteraction), and temporality (both past and future contained in Dewey´s notion of continuity)”(p.365). In this way, teachers are not seen as implementers of curricular plans but as part of thecurriculum making process. In other words, they understand that students create theircurriculum in their experience at school when they interact with teachers and the environment.Therefore, the educational relationship creates the framework where learning can take placeand students can build knowledge (Atkinson, 2015); it means, relationships generate meetingplaces that allow the making and reshaping of curriculum.If teaching takes place in the relationship, it means recognition (and acceptance) of the otherperson, of the otherness. It supposes trying to come into relation with the other, and it impliesalso acceptance of the uncertainty that otherness has. Therefore, education Is not about theimplementation of an education programme in order to achieve (pre)determined results. It isnot about intervention on students, but it is an experience of relationship where each oneconstructs their own story (Molina, Blanco & Arbiol, 2016).In short, curriculum is made through experiences that are lived in relation and, therefore, wecould say that education is an act of relationship (Piussi, 2006). In this way, education does notrequire that teachers have the most appropriate knowledge and programme for every situation;the educational experience is unpredictable and ineffable, we cannot anticipate or face itcompletely (Van Manen, 2015). Thus, teaching requires becoming aware of how we buildrelationships and how we see the other person (Contreras, 2002).
YR 2018
FD 2018-09-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/16423
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/16423
LA eng
NO Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026