Dimensions of the Digitized Academic and Self-Study Research: An International Collaboration

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session 19
  In Roundtable Session: Rethinking Teacher Education Practices Through Self-Study

Abstract

Online teacher preparation is growing worldwide. Some university programs provide incentives or describe potential benefits and others simply mandate change. Regardless of the impetus, teacher educators are just now embracing digitization of their work. However, many self-study scholars have taken the challenge of the digitization of the academy as an opportunity. Hamilton and Pinnegar (2017) called this the digital turn in self-study of teacher education practices (S-STEP). “S-STEP methodology situates technology as an opening rather than a constricting tool to explore practice” (p. 14). For this paper, a group of international scholars will explore the seven touchstones of self-study in digital worlds have been outlined in the literature.

Authors

• Ramona Maile Cutri, Brigham Young University

• Mary F. Rice, The University of New Mexico

• Laura C. Haniford, University of New Mexico

• Dawn Garbett, University of Auckland

• Alan Ovens, University of Auckland

• Shawn M. Bullock, Simon Fraser University

• Hafdis Gudjonsdottir, University of Iceland

• Clare Kosnik, University of Toronto/OISE