What’s the Story? Professional Learning in a Three-Act Structure

Abstract

This blog post adopts a three-act narrative structure to underscore the importance of sensemaking, that is, the making of meaning within learning. Act One reviews the author’s doctoral journey studying language learner autonomy, and Act Two emphasises know and centre the whole individual as a process as the main message learned from analysis of his doctoral research efforts. Finally, Act Three evaluates lasting changes to the author’s teaching practice that have resulted from that research. Language learners, educators, and other doctorates are thus encouraged to tell the story of their own learning to promote meaningful change.