ERIC Number: EJ821813
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Dec
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ISSN: ISSN-0952-3987
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Teacher Professional Identity Development with Social Networking Technologies: Learning Reform through Blogging
Luehmann, April Lynn; Tinelli, Liz
Educational Media International, v45 n4 p323-333 Dec 2008
Implementing student-centered, inquiry-based science pedagogy in secondary classrooms, though identified as the goal by all science education professional organizations, is rarely a reality in today's classrooms. Therefore, teachers committed to reform often lack a "local" network with whom they can interact around this new professional discourse of "reform"-minded teaching. Emerging social networking technologies such as blogging offer potential to support professional learning through the development of like-minded communities not geographically or temporally constrained. This article reports on how 15 secondary science teachers committed to reform used blogs to support their efforts to develop reform-based practices. Findings illuminate varied ways in which participants did so and what they gained as a result. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Educational Change, Science Teachers, Professional Development, Teaching (Occupation), Science Education, Social Networks, Secondary School Teachers, Media Literacy, Interpersonal Relationship, Surveys
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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