Critical Incidents in the Classroom: Identities, Choices and Careers

By S. Ball, I. Goodson. 2002

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Teachers’ critical incidents: Ethical dilemmas in teaching practice (2011, background): “They may be detrimental to teachers’ professional development as they may lead them to prefer one action over another when encountering similar situations (Measor,1985;Woods,1993).”
Teachers’ emotions in educational reforms: Self-understanding, vulnerable commitment and micropolitical literacy (2005, background): “The narratives revealed several critical incidents (Measor, 1985) that showed how teachers often felt powerless, threatened, questioned by others (principal, parents) without being able to properly defend themselves, etc.”
Facilitating self-study of teacher education practices: toward a pedagogy of teacher educator professional development (2016, methodology): “In doing so, we used the notion of critical incidents and phases (Measor 1985, Sikes et al. 1985) as heuristic concepts to identify key experiences or turning points in the research group facilitation.”