Mapping the Journey of Collaborative Reflective Practices through Traveling Journals
Abstract
In the proposed paper, we share the development and evolution of several teacher researchers as individuals and as an organized teacher research group involved in a local national reform movement. Since 1998, we have created school portfolios, have participated in Critical Friends Groups (often simultaneously), and most recently, have engaged in a funded teacher research project in which we experimented with traveling journals as inquiry tools and forms of documentation to assist us in our individual and collective “move[ment] toward improved…reflective practice” (Schwab, 1958). This paper, which is methodological as well as substantive in nature, outlines what traveling journals are, and the ways in which our traveling reflections and discussions impacted our thinking, teaching, scholarship, and shared portfolio work.
The paper is complete and uploaded for the discussant and we are all off to NYC.