Session 3

Passion and CPD

Summer Residential

June 2008

Passion and CPD

How this ‘passion’ enquiry developed

• History of 17 October 2007 session

• What we are trying to find outa) what is passion b) how is it related to your CPD c) how can it get triggered/planned for

Passion and CPD

We asked at the teacher interview

“Some people talked about a link between CPD and passion. Have you experienced something like that? Could you please explain what passion for you would be?”

Passion and CPD

What we did with these replies – using principles of phenomenology and phenomenological reduction

Phenomenological reduction

“‘phenomenological reduction’ aims to locate the ‘pure data’. To do that, reflection has to be on the content of the mind to the exclusion of everything else”

(Husserl, 1964, ppxvi, xvii, 34, 35).

Passion and CPD

How Els does this

I have to become conscious of my consciousness and to think carefully about what goes on in my mind, looking for its structures and the phenomena that identify these structures.

I inspect my own experiences, then try to connect with the experience of others.

Passion and CPD

First step – coding (show spreadsheet)

Passion and CPD

Next step – validation of identified phenomena and then re-coding using phenomenological reduction

Later: looking at correlations, causal effects – analytical frameworks

Passion and CPD

What we would like you to do, using phenomenological reduction is

• Next step – validating of identified phenomena and then re-coding using phenomenological reduction

• Group, re-group the phenomena

• Find out if there are other phenomena

• Use your creative thinking• It is not about agreeing – also very much about disagreeing, and finding out subtleties

Passion and CPD

For this (all repeated on and in envelope)

Suggested way of working:

• Work and discuss etc in groups of maximum 3• You do not have to answer all questions, or address all

phenomena• Read the phenomena and questions and examples • Think and ponder• Pick some that resonate with your experiences• Add your own examples on post its (mention the phenomenon) to make it relevant to you• Probe each other deeply (phenomenological reduction)

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• Write down your thoughts on post-its (label phenomenon)• Make distinction if you can between account of (specific examples of YOUR experiences of what happened) and account for (ideas and interpretations about how things might have come about)• Group, re-group, amend phenomena• Use paper, pens, glue, scissors etc to express your thinking

• If stuck, please ask Marie, Christine, Els, Jenni or Ros to get unstuck