The Digitized Archival Fever in Teacher Education: edTPA as Politics of Memory, Temporality, and Technology

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Abstract

This paper examines the birth of edTPA as politics of memory, temporality and technology. The video-recording of teaching in edTPA creates a new relation of observer and teacher; from "human to human" relation to the relation of "human with technology". Theoretically guided by the history of film and visual cultural study to analyze interviews and documents on edTPA, this study suggests that the “indexicality” and “archivability” of temporal teaching is determined by the rubrics given by edTPA, as the desired future outcomes to achieve. It also argues the digitized observation of teaching enhances realism as the authentic evidences of effective teaching. This study provides a new approach and readership on standardization movement as the entanglement of memory, temporality and technology.

Author

• Sun Young Lee, University of Wisconsin - Madison