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Abstract
A teaching statement offers a written summary of one’s beliefs, approaches, and successes in teaching. In this article, I use the teaching statement that I wrote in library school as an autoethnographic artifact to consider my own development as a teacher, and to reflect on the teaching statement as a genre. How do we declare ourselves as teachers, and how does that identity develop and shift over time? I conclude with considerations of how a teaching statement can serve academic librarians.
Keywords:
- teaching statements,
- teacher development
Résumé
Une déclaration de philosophie d'enseignement (DPE) est un résumé écrit des convictions, des approches et des réussites d'une personne en matière d'enseignement. Dans cet article, j'utilise la déclaration de philosophie d'enseignement que j'ai rédigée à l'école de bibliothéconomie comme artefact autoethnographique pour analyser mon propre développement en tant qu'enseignant et pour réfléchir à la déclaration d'enseignement en tant que genre. Comment nous déclarons-nous à travers nos DPE et comment cette identité se développe-t-elle et évolue-t-elle au fil du temps ? Je conclus par des considérations sur comment une déclaration de philosophie d'enseignement peut servir les bibliothécaires universitaires.
Mots-clés :
- déclarations de philosophie d’enseignement,
- développement professionnel des enseignant.e.s
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