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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected Title: Image-making: A strategy for promoting congruity in preservice teacher education Abstract: The purpose of the ensuing study is to determine, using qualitative methods, whether or not image-making is an effective methodology for promoting congruity in the context of a fieldwork experience. "Congruity refers to the process involving the match or mismatch between a stimulus representing a perceived self-image and a referent self-image" (Sirgy, 1986, p. 14). Referent image pertains to the images evoked from memory that are used as a standard to judge the perceived images evoked in real life situations. Perceived images of current situations are self-evaluative images evoked as a result of stimuli emerging from experience. In the context of pre-service teacher education, in this study, referent and perceived images pertain to images of classroom management knowledge and images of power projected in a classroom management situation. Image-making is a reflective process that uses graphic images as a tool to promote congruity between the pre-service teachers' referent and perceived images. Congruity is promoted by (a) offering a means of identifying one's referent image, (b) encouraging the process involving examining the match or mismatch between referent and perceived images, a period characterized by destabilization, and (c) offering a means of re-establishing or stabilizing one's referent image so that it is congruent with the actual scene of teaching. |
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