Title:
TEACHING IS LIKE ENGINEERING: THEORISING MY PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

Authors:
John D Branch, USA

Abstract:
This article presents a doctoral research project in which I theorised my professional practice as an analogy that teaching is like engineering. It begins by tracing my teaching career, and highlighting how I discovered my community of practice, and subsequently how I pinpointed my professional identity. It then outlines Living Educational Theory which I adopted as the paradigm for the research project, and describes the autoethnography which I conducted to theorise my professional practice. The chapter continues by presenting the analogy that teaching is like engineering. It concludes with a discussion of the analogy and Living Educational Theory.