Foreword by Hubert Hermans

When a society becomes more complex and heterogeneous, the identity of teachers "is also challenged to become more complex and heterogeneous. The school, as a reflection of society, needs flexible educators, capable of adapting to change. From the perspective of Dialogical Self Theory, this fle...

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Autor: Hermans, Hubert
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:231321
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/231321
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/qpsicologia.1641
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Social change
Educational models
Multiplicity of i-positions
Dialogical self theory
Cambio social
Modelos educativos
Multiplicidad de posiciones del yo
Teoría del yo dialógico
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Sumario:When a society becomes more complex and heterogeneous, the identity of teachers "is also challenged to become more complex and heterogeneous. The school, as a reflection of society, needs flexible educators, capable of adapting to change. From the perspective of Dialogical Self Theory, this flexibility translates into the need to adopt a multiplicity of positions of the self as involved in permanent dialogue. These I-positions have the quality of being individual, but also social and their coalition with the I-positions of others can generate shared positions or We-positions. This is an indispensable condition to achieve the successful development of innovative educational projects. Among the different functions that I-positions can adopt, two are crucial. The activation of metapositions that allow reflection on the other, more specific, positions and promoter-positions that provide a developmental impetus and direction to the other positions. The text ends by underlining the relevance of this dialogical perspective to the contemporary world.