Negotiating Technological Habitus for Equity: Role of Institutional Habitus in Teacher Preparation

• In Event: Bourdieusian Contexts and Cases in Teaching and Technology

Abstract

Educational policy reforms and institutional requirements about technology use in K-12 classrooms shape teacher candidates’ predispositions and how they approach teaching with digital devices (Cornbleth, 2010; Ertmer et al., 2018). This study explores development of teacher candidates’ habitus around using technology to promote equity in their diverse classroom placements. Pre- and post-survey responses from two cohorts of teacher candidates were collected at the beginning and at the end of their student-teaching semester. Findings demonstrate the progression and variety in teacher candidates’ predispositions regarding technology. This research informs teacher education programs to pay close attention to diverse predispositions and to provide varying levels of support for the teacher candidates to envision how they prepare current generation of netizens to become digital citizens.

Author

• Pallavi Chhabra, Washington University in St. Louis