AFINAL, O QUE FAZEM AS SUPERVISORAS ACADÊMICAS?: EXPLORANDO OS BASTIDORES DE UMA COMUNIDADE DE PRÁTICA / DOING, BEING ACADEMIC SUPERVISION?: EXPLORING THE BACKSTAGE OF A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

This study aims at searching for understandings of the interaction in the professional context I belong to: the team of academic supervisors in an EFL school. Following the principles of Exploratory Practice (Allwright, 2001), I monitored activities in which we engaged in the backstage of our daily practice, adopting the role of a practitioner researcher. Data was generated through potentially exploitable informal conversations (Azevedo, 2005), field notes, and audio recordings of scheduled meetings, informal meetings and the daily interaction inside the supervisors´ room. Data analysis, based on concepts of Interactional Sociolinguistics, allowed me to identify, in the supervisors´ discourse, how we construct professional knowledge and credibility, make decisions and resolve problems and construct our group identity. By involving the group in this search for understanding, this study has added a new dimension to our daily practice in supervision: an exploratory look at our experiences of participation and non-participation in different communities of practice (Wenger,1998) inside the school.

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communities of practice pratica exploratoria language at work exploratory practice sociolinguistica interacional supervisao supervising interactional sociolinguistics comunidades de pratica linguagem no trabalho

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