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VET STUDENT IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION WITH EFL AND GOOGLE APPS FOR EDUCATION
Pekka PakkalaKeskuspuisto Vocational College
EFVET CONFERENCE 2016 VALENCIA SPAIN
PEKKA PAKKALA
(Master of Arts, qualified vocational special needs teacher, doctoral researcher) teaches English as foreign language in Keskuspuisto Vocational College, Finland
Isolation of core subjects and EFL from vocational studies?
Special needs contexts that accentuate the requirement for cohesion and holistic approach?
Witness the 3 year arc; What factors are involved? What happens? How are these happenings constructed into a story?
Herein lies a narrative!
QUESTIONS FOR A DOCTORAL RESEARCH….
Identity is a product of narrative process (Hall 1999)
Learning is a product of this process (Ropo 2009)
A narrative process creates reasons and context for rules and principles (Bruner 1986)
This contextualisation is essential to EFL; all learning requires a context
Google GAFE Classroom provides a platform for contextualisation
IDENTITY AND LEARNING
… AND COMPREHENSION OF PROCESSES…
I USE THE STENCIL TO APPLY THE
DECORATIVE PAINTING ON THE WALL. THEN I
SPRAY THE PAINT.
The aim is to create learning environments that ad-vance signification and identity construction on three levels:
1. Autobiographical or individual level (Who am I?)2. Social level (What am I, where do I belong?)3. Cultural level (What kind of world do I live in?
(Yrjänäinen & Ropo 2013)
THEORETICAL CONTEXT
NARRATIVES OF POSITIVE PROFESSIONAL SUBCULTURE
ALL THE REMAINS OF ADHESIVE TAPE MUST BE REMOVED…
… WITH A CUTTER. ISN´T IT LUNCHTIME NOW?
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