Understanding Online Teachers' Work With Students With Disabilities, Narratively

• In Event: 73.060 - Roundtable Session 31
  In Roundtable Session: 73.060-6 - Technology and Understanding Our Work, Narratively

Abstract

This work emerged from an interest in the experiences of teachers in online settings as they worked alongside students with disabilities and their parents to complete coursework in a supplemental online program. Four teachers shared their personal practical knowledge of teaching (Clandinin & Connelly, 1990) told and examined in the three-dimensional narrative space (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000). These stories also reflected the teachers’ positons on a professional knowledge landscape (Clandinin & Connelly, 1996) that is virtual in nature, but no less real in its consequences for students.

Authors

• Richard Allen Carter, The University of Kansas

• Mary F. Rice, The University of Kansas