Pushing Into the Unknown: Emergent Podcasting and Filmmaking as Documentary Research for Teaching Social Action

• In Event: 29.056 - Documenting Justice, Equity, and Inclusion

Abstract

As teacher educators, we are troubled by the ways our pre-service teacher candidates’ experiences are increasingly responsive to external mandates, such as high-stakes teacher performance assessments, that artificially define and constrain candidates’ vision of what is possible in today’s classrooms. This inquiry uses a methodological frame of doing documentary research with our pre-service teacher candidates--namely producing podcasts and video documentation-- to challenge the dominant trope dictated by prescriptive mandates . Through our analysis of the documentary research we see deep potential for using such classroom practices as a means to induct our students into the processes for making curriculum student-centered, emergent, and reflective of localized interests of the people in and around a classroom.

Authors

• Brian D. Schultz, Northeastern Illinois University

• Alison G Dover, California State University - Fullerton