AUTHOR=Holmstedt Pernilla , Jönsson Anders , Aspelin Jonas TITLE=Learning to See New Things: Using Criteria to Support Pre-service Teachers' Discernment in the Context of Teachers' Relational Work JOURNAL=Frontiers in Education VOLUME=3 YEAR=2018 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/education/articles/10.3389/feduc.2018.00054 DOI=10.3389/feduc.2018.00054 ISSN=2504-284X ABSTRACT=

The purpose of this study was to investigate how pre-service teachers' understanding of relational competence can be supported through the use of digital video and explicit criteria. The study is a mixed method intervention study, where pre-service teachers analyzed the teacher-student relationship as depicted in a short video sequence with the support of explicit criteria. These analyses were analyzed with content analysis according to the criteria and a thematic comparison of pre-service teachers' analyses before and after the access to explicit criteria. Findings suggest that the use of explicit criteria supported pre-service teachers' discernment of significant dimensions of teacher-student relationships, so that they were able to discern and discuss aspects of the teacher-student relationship with a specific focus on teacher-student interaction and with greater detail and nuance. The study also provides some tentative evidence that modeling the use of criteria may support pre-service teachers' use of the criteria.