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What is Introspection

Chapter 25
Handbook of Research on Study Abroad Programs and Outbound Mobility
The process of examining your own thoughts or feelings; self-examination.
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Walking in English Learners' Shoes: Preservice Teacher Struggles Result in Empathy
Debbie Powell (University of North Carolina – Wilmington, USA) and Roberta J. Aram (Missouri State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 30
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0169-5.ch025
Abstract
This chapter reports on a university short-term study abroad immersion experience in Costa Rica for preservice teachers. Qualitative data from instructors' field notes and participants' photo blogs, exit interviews, and formal course evaluations were analyzed for evidence of expressions of empathy for English Learners (ELs), resolve to use effective teaching strategies with ELs, personal growth and cross-cultural awareness. Findings show that participants demonstrated empathy that was linked to personal and professional growth as a future teacher. The course's design strategically causing authentic physical and emotional struggles similar to ELs' with purposefully facilitated reflection time to address feelings and experiences was effective in achieving overall course goals.
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Chapter 11
Writing About the Self as a Vital Component of Preparing Doctoral Students to Write for Research and Publication
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Chapter 1
From Pixels to Picture: A Framework for Mindful Teaching
The act of attending to thoughts, beliefs, sensations, and feelings.
Published in Chapter: From Pixels to Picture: A Framework for Mindful Teaching; From: Empowering Formal and Informal Leadership While Maintaining Teacher Identity
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Accreditation Experience of the Designated Subject Credential (DSC) Program at California State University, Long Beach
Introspection was used by German physiologist Wilhelm Wundt in the experimental psychology laboratory he had founded in Leipzig in 1879. Wundt believed that by using introspection in his experiments he would gather information into how the subjects’ minds were working, thus he wanted to examine the mind into its basic elements. Wundt did not invent this way of looking into an individual’s mind through their experiences; rather, it can date to Socrates. Wundt’s distinctive contribution was to take this method into the experimental arena and thus into the newly formed field of psychology. Introspection is now defined as the mental self-observation reporting of conscious inner thoughts, desires and sensations. It is a conscious mental and usually purposive process relying on thinking, reasoning, and examining one’s own thoughts feelings, and, in more spiritual cases, one’s soul. Introspection is also used now as a research method.
Published in Chapter: Accreditation Experience of the Designated Subject Credential (DSC) Program at California State University, Long Beach; From: Handbook of Research on E-Learning Applications for Career and Technical Education: Technologies for Vocational Training
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