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2023-02-06

Pedagogical Relationships and Identities in Research Incubators: Reconceptualizing Research Training for Language Teachers

Relaciones pedagógicas e identidades en los semilleros de investigación: reconceptualización de la formación en investigación para los maestros de lenguas

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https://doi.org/10.15446/profile.v25n1.94333

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language teachers, pedagogical relationship, research incubators, research training, teacher identity (en)
formaci´ón en investigación, identidad docente, maestros de lenguas, relación pedagógica, semilleros de investigación (es)

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This article reports on a case study that analyzed pedagogical relationships and teacher identities in research incubators. Conducted over two years in an English teaching program at a Colombian private university, the study included semi-structured interviews with four research incubator coordinators and two focus groups with eight students. We found that mentoring in research incubators nurtures attitudes and competencies crucial to the students’ construction of their identity as teacher researchers. From the results of our research, we built a theoretical model that describes pedagogical relationships in research education around the axes of power and affect. Finally, we draw some implications about an epistemological shift from knowledge-centered to knower-centered pedagogical relationships in collaborative approaches to research training.

Este estudio de caso analiza las relaciones pedagógicas y las identidades docentes en los semilleros de investigación de un programa de licenciatura en inglés. Se realizaron entrevistas con cuatro coordinadores y dos grupos focales con ocho estudiantes; se encontró que las mentorías en los semilleros de investigación favorecen el desarrollo de actitudes y competencias fundamentales para que los estudiantes construyan su identidad como maestros investigadores. Los resultados permitieron construir un modelo teórico sobre las relaciones pedagógicas en la formación de investigadores alrededor de los ejes del poder y del afecto. Se señalan algunas implicaciones con respecto a un cambio epistemológico en las relaciones pedagógicas orientadas desde enfoques colaborativos para la formación de investigadores y centradas no en el conocimiento sino en los sujetos que tienen el conocimiento.

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