Exploring your educator identity
- 1. Exploring your educator identity Jordan Napier & Mandy Moffat We’ll get started at 10.05am – while you wait, please grab a cup of tea/coffee & make yourself at home
- 2. By the end of this session, you will be able to: • Reflect on your own educator identity • Consider which metaphors/symbols you might use to describe your identity as an educator
- 3. Ways of working: Keep muted when you’re not talking Put your cameras on in the breakout rooms Join in activities Enjoy!
- 4. How would you define the concept of ‘identity’? Type here
- 5. Why identity? • ’the way individuals understand themselves, interpret experiences, present themselves and wish to be perceived by others as well as how they are recognized by the broader community’ (Gee, 2001). • an onion as a metaphor of identity, in which ‘each layer represents a different level of understanding from the ‘inner world’ to the ‘outer world’ (Mounrouxe & Poole, 2013). • GMC Recognition of Trainers – ‘taking on the identity of an educator, rather than seeing it as integral, but unarticulated, part of their role’ (Burford, et al, 2019).
- 7. Medical students’ identities • ‘Medical education is as much about the development of a professional identity as it is about knowledge learning’ (2010).
- 8. What about the medical educators? • Teaching as being an integral part of physician identity (Steinert & MacDonald, 2015) • doctors who ‘see themselves as teachers’ are more likely to enjoy it and be regarded as effective in their roles (Starr et al, 2003) • while medical educators’ identities as physicians and researchers tend to be well prescribed and supported by universities and hospitals, their identities as teachers are not (Lankveld et al, 2017)
- 9. Metaphors/symbols – why?! Conceptual metaphor theory states that human beings tend to think in metaphors, i.e. we are engaged in constant search of similarities between concepts (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980;Karska & Prazmo, 2017).
- 17. In your breakout rooms (10 mins): • Consider what metaphor, symbol, analogy you might use to express how you see yourself as an educator… • What made you pick that specific metaphor/symbol?
- 19. By the end of this session, you will be able to: • Reflect on your own educator identity • Consider which metaphors you might use to describe your identity as an educator
- 20. References: • Gee JP. Identity as an analytical lens for research in education. Rev Res Educ. 2001;25:99–125 • Gordon, L., Rees, C. E., & Jindal-Snape, D. (2020). Doctors’ identity transitions: Choosing to occupy a state of ‘betwixt and between’. Medical Education. • Monrouxe, L., & Poole, G. (2013). An onion? Conceptualising and researching identity. Medical education, 47(4), 425-429. • Burford, B., Vance, G., Rothwell, C., Scott, J., & Jones, S. (2019). A qualitative evaluation of the GMC’s trainer recognition framework. Report for the GMC. • Steinert, Y., Mann, K., Anderson, B., Barnett, B. M., Centeno, A., Naismith, L., ... & Ward, H. (2016). A systematic review of faculty development initiatives designed to enhance teaching effectiveness: A 10-year update: BEME Guide No. 40. Medical teacher, 38(8), 769-786. • Starr S, Ferguson WJ, Haley HL, Quirk M. Community preceptors’ views of their identities as teachers. Acad Med 2003;78(8):820–5. • Van Lankveld, T., Schoonenboom, J., Volman, M., Croiset, G., & Beishuizen, J. (2017). Developing a teacher identity in the university context: A systematic review of the literature. Higher Education Research & Development, 36(2), 325-342.