ERIC Number: EJ1140028
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1366-4530
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Factors Influencing Teacher Appropriation of Professional Learning Focused on the Use of Technology in Science Classrooms
Longhurst, Max L.; Jones, Suzanne H.; Campbell, Todd
Teacher Development, v21 n3 p365-387 2017
Understanding factors that impact teacher implementation of learning from professional development is critical in order to maximize the educational and financial investment in teacher professional learning. This multi-case qualitative investigation elucidates factors that influence the appropriation of instructional tools associated with professional development focused on technology within science classrooms using activity theory as a theoretical framework. This framework has the capacity to account for multiple elements in professional learning. Implementation variability associated with professional development adoption drives this inquiry to search for better understandings of the appropriation of pedagogical practices. Purposeful sampling was used to identify four participants from a group of science teachers engaged in professional development designed to investigate how cyber-enabled technologies might enhance instruction and learning in eighth-grade science classrooms. The data from this investigation add to the literature of appropriation of instructional practices by connecting the conceptual and practical dispositions of teachers with an appropriation hierarchy.
Descriptors: Professional Development, Social Theories, Communities of Practice, Technology Uses in Education, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Grade 8, Inservice Teacher Education, Qualitative Research, Grounded Theory, Semi Structured Interviews, Information Technology, Observation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 8; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Elementary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: 1020086