A Study on Effectiveness of a Group Dialogue Approach for In-service Training of Nursery Teacher

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In-service teacher training is one key factor in improving the quality of nursery teacher. World Café is a powerful conversational process that helps people engage in constructive dialogue, as Tan & Brown( 2005) noted. Café dialogues enable large groups to think together creatively as part of a single connected conversation. This study was aimed at identifying the impact of the group dialogue technique World Café for in-service teacher training, to understand what middle leader nursery teachers really wantin dialogue in terms of reflection of their practice. Date for this research was gathered during a World Café event held at a Morioka Aiina Campus ( Satellite campus of Iwate Prefectural University)in September 2011. The topic was"effectiveness of a group dialogue approach for in-service training of nursery teacher". Middle leaders from nursery faculties in Morioka city were invited to attend this event to discuss the ways in which they constructed their workplace identities, particularly reflecting on the influences of the increasing controls which had recently been implemented to monitor and regulate work practices. 43 teachers (all females) attended the event. Findings suggested that participants of the cafe become more consciously reflective about their practice and they had positive impressions about World Café. The implication of this study was that participants understand and assimilate more extensively about nursery care through effective dialogue.

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