Working the Tensions of Technology, Relationships, and Embodied Materiality in a Self-Study Community

• In Event: Roundtable Session 53
  In Roundtable Session: Using Self-Study to Contemplate Technology in Teacher Education

Abstract

In this paper, we set out to examine processes of individual and group becomings over time and distance, and with/through technology. As members of our group moved through their doctoral studies, physical moves out of the immediate area necessitated the addition of another group member--technology. Yet, as we moved into a new iteration of our self-study community held almost exclusively through online media, a tension arose at the juncture of our fundamentally relational work together, our need for the physical, embodied aspect of learning and self study, and the hybrid, often disembodied experience provided by substituting online meetings for in-person ones. In this presentation we explore these tensions through “pivotal moments” in our self-study work over the past year.

Authors

• Kathryn Jill Strom, California State University - East Bay

• Linda Whalen Abrams, Montclair State University

• Charity Mack Dacey, Montclair State University

• Tammy Mills, Montclair State University