1. Teacher Educators Define
“Pedagogical Innovation”
Lea Baratz
Achva College
Dalit Levy
Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology & Arts
The 6th International Conference on Teacher Education: Changing Reality Through Education
The David Yalin Academic College of Education, Jerusalem, July 2, 2013

2. An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
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Baratz & Levy, July 2, 2013
• What do you see?

3. ABOUT US
MOTIVATION
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CRITICAL LOOK
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4. ABOUT US
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CRITICAL LOOK
THE ISSUE
THE FIELD
METHODOLOGY
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5. ABOUT US
MOTIVATION
BACKGROUND
CRITICAL LOOK
THE ISSUE
THE FIELD
METHODOLOGY
FINDINGS
NEXT STEPS
An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
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6. ABOUT US
MOTIVATION
BACKGROUND
CRITICAL LOOK
THE ISSUE
THE FIELD
METHODOLOGY
FINDINGS
NEXT STEPS
An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
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7. ABOUT US
MOTIVATION
BACKGROUND
CRITICAL LOOK
THE ISSUE
THE FIELD
METHODOLOGY
FINDINGS
NEXT STEPS
An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
Baratz & Levy, July 2, 2013

8. ABOUT US
MOTIVATION
BACKGROUND
CRITICAL LOOK
THE ISSUE
THE FIELD
METHODOLOGY
FINDINGS
NEXT STEPS
An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
Baratz & Levy, July 2, 2013

9. ABOUT US
MOTIVATION
BACKGROUND
CRITICAL LOOK
THE ISSUE
THE FIELD
METHODOLOGY
FINDINGS
NEXT STEPS
An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
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10. An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
Baratz & Levy, July 2, 2013
• What do you see?
• What does “see”?
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11. An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
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12. PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY
• To investigate the use of the
semantic term innovation as it
finds expression in teacher
educators' definitions
• To reveal connections between
ideology and the “language of
innovation” of teacher
educatorsBaratz & Levy, July 2, 2013
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13. Words of Pedagogical Innovation
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14. Words of Pedagogical Innovation
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15. QUESTIONS
• What is “the language of
innovation” of teacher educators?
• Does it express a new kind of
educational reality? Or, is it a semantic
habit that gives expression to the socio-
economic trends and ideologies?
Baratz & Levy, July 2, 2013
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16. An Image of Innovation
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17. Another Image of Innovation
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18. Words of Innovation
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19. Baratz & Levy, July 2, 2013
(By Alec Couros, 2010)
Words of Innovation
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20. QUESTIONS
• What is “the language of
innovation” of teacher educators?
• Does it express a new kind of
educational reality? Or, is it a semantic
habit that gives expression to the socio-
economic trends and ideologies?
Baratz & Levy, July 2, 2013
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MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
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METHOD
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SUMMARY

21. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
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Language and ideology
Ideology of teacher educators
and its influence on their
attitudes
Innovations – semantic habits or
ideological trends
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22. LANGUAGE AS AN ASSESSMENT
TOOL
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Language is a tool for the assessment of
ideology, while also being influenced by
ideological processes.
On one hand, language has the capability of
solving questions concerning the essence or
the influences of ideology, while, on the other
hand, language itself raises many problems in
research of ideology (Cameron, 2006)
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23. IDEOLOGY
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A potential source of codes of collective action
aimed at the attainment of goals. One of the
sources of the creation of
structures, rules, relations, and social borders
providing for social organization of general
institutions, normative values for action and the
definitions of belonging and not belonging.
Ideology is also connected to power and is
associated with the attempt to justify certain
ideas to promote power relations of a specific
group in society.
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24. METHOD
A research tool was designed to collect
teacher educators' stories
The respondents were first asked to characterize
elements of pedagogical innovation from their
field of practice, according to the principle of a
"small story" (Bamberg, 2006)
At the end, the respondents were asked
to provide a definition of pedagogical
innovationBaratz & Levy, July 2, 2013
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25. METHOD
A research tool was designed to collect
teacher educators' stories
The respondents were first asked to
characterize elements of pedagogical
innovation from their field of
practice, according to the principle of a
"small story" (Bamberg, 2006)
At the end, the respondents were asked
to provide a definition of pedagogical
innovationBaratz & Levy, July 2, 2013
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MOTIVATION
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26. METHOD
110 responses were collected (in a
narrative form), from teacher educators
in 7 colleges of education around Israel
An inductive analysis was carried out in
three stages
Here, we focus on the analysis of the
definitions these teacher educators
gave to the term “pedagogical
innovation”Baratz & Levy, July 2, 2013
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27. METHOD
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28. FINDINGS
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TEACHER EDUCATORS’ DEFINITIONS OF
PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION
NO
INNOVATION
MENTION
TECHNOLOGIES
SUGGEST RENEWED
DEFINITION
1. BUILD
THEORY
SUGGEST RENEWED
DEFINITION
3. DOUBLE
MEANING
2. VARIETY OF
APPROACHES
4. RECURSIVE
THINKING

29. FINDINGS
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TEACHER EDUCATORS’ DEFINITIONS OF
PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION
MENTION
TECHNOLOGIES
SUGGEST RENEWED
DEFINITION
1. BUILD
THEORY
SUGGEST RENEWED
DEFINITION
3. DOUBLE
MEANING
2. VARIETY OF
APPROACHES
4. RECURSIVE
THINKING
"Pedagogical innovation is a pedagogical way, or
to the best of my understanding, is
implementation of new/different ways in the
process of teaching and learning that promotes
meaningful learning among the learners."

30. FINDINGS
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TEACHER EDUCATORS’ DEFINITIONS OF
PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION
NO
DEFINITION
MENTION
TECHNOLOGIES
SUGGEST RENEWED
DEFINITION
1. BUILD
THEORY
SUGGEST RENEWED
DEFINITION
3. DOUBLE
MEANING
2. VARIETY OF
APPROACHES
4. RECURSIVE
THINKING
"Pedagogical innovation is anything that
differs ideologically from the contents and
practices accepted in the field of teacher
training."

31. FINDINGS
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TEACHER EDUCATORS’ DEFINITIONS OF
PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION
NO
INNOVATION
MENTION
TECHNOLOGIES
SUGGEST RENEWED
DEFINITION
1. BUILD
THEORY
SUGGEST RENEWED
DEFINITION
3. DOUBLE
MEANING
2. VARIETY OF
APPROACHES
4. RECURSIVE
THINKING
“Innovation is no more than buzz words”
“Everything I did, Korschak and Gideon
Levine did before me”
“There is nothing new under the sun”

32. SO, WHAT IS PEDAGOGICAL
INNOVATION?
Baratz & Levy, July 2, 2013
IMAGES
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In the attempts to define the
concept, we expected to find the
following four components: the
vision, diagnosis of the process, the
means for implementation and
identification of the target population.
However, we failed to find these in the
sayings and the stories.

33. MAYBE BECAUSE…
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The definitions are based in the reality in
which teacher educators act, which
largely reflect that reality. The
definitions, for the most part, constitute
an anchor of knowledge, knowledge that
needs not be confronted, knowledge
that is strengthened in the process of
their work.

34. AND MAYBE …
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The discussion of innovation among
teacher educators reflects components
of semantic habits that give expression
to the trends of socio-economic policy-
makers (Ben-Peretz).
The ideology that teacher educators hold
influences the semantic use of the
concept of innovation, as was reflected
in the definitions of the research
respondents.

35. THEREFORE, …
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The wide changes that occurred in language
following the "politically correct" movement did
not change the social reality.
Language reflects social ethos that were in
existence before, as well as strengthening them.
Definitions are difficult, especially when they refer
to complex life processes. When they are finally
achieved, they are usually so broad that their
meanings are lost in their enormous spaces
(Appleby, 1949).
Apparently, this is what happens to the term
“pedagogical innovation”.

36. Back to an Image of Pedagogical
Innovation
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• What do you see
now?