{"title":"Attempting to Implement A Pedagogy of Care during the Disruptions to Teacher Education Caused by COVID-19: A Collaborative Self-Study","authors":"B. Moorhouse, M. C. Tiet","doi":"10.1080/17425964.2021.1925644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17425964.2021.1925644","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article reports on a collaborative self-study conducted by the authors (two teacher educators) as we attempted to implement a pedagogy of care during the disruptions to teacher education caused by COVID-19. Due to the pandemic, we were required to conduct our teacher education courses synchronously online through video-conferencing software. Although this mode of instruction allowed us to continue teaching despite the restrictions necessitated by COVID-19, the relational aspect of teaching and the role of care seemed to be limited and became an important concern for us. Through self-study, we aimed to improve our online teaching practices by enacting a pedagogy of care during one full semester. We detail our attempts to conceptualise a pedagogy of care for the online classroom, begin our courses from a position of care and prioritize and maintain care throughout the semester. We also present the ongoing challenges we experienced in implementing a pedagogy of care online. While recognising that everyone has been affected by COVID-19 in different ways, we hope through sharing our experiences, others can learn from them and conceptualise and implement a pedagogy of care in their contexts.","PeriodicalId":45793,"journal":{"name":"Studying Teacher Education","volume":"111 1","pages":"208 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80986245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Opportunities and Costs: A Self-Study of Coordinating Teacher Education Programs","authors":"J. Myers, M. Hughes","doi":"10.1080/17425964.2021.1935229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17425964.2021.1935229","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although there is substantial research documenting the impact of department heads in higher education, there is a significant gap in the literature examining the role of program coordinators. This self-study explores how two teacher educators navigated the opportunities and costs of coordinating their respective programs, literacy education and elementary education. The data revealed three themes consistent across the coordinators: stakeholder and engagement, collaboration, and policy and power. Implications for leaders in higher education are discussed including the importance of revising evaluation tools to reflect the actual demands on coordinators’ time, allowing time for rich and deep conversation among leaders, and providing mentors to assist coordinators in building their skills and supporting their efforts.","PeriodicalId":45793,"journal":{"name":"Studying Teacher Education","volume":"184 1","pages":"122 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79752195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who Does Self-Study and Why?","authors":"A. Berry, J. Kitchen","doi":"10.1080/17425964.2021.1947132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17425964.2021.1947132","url":null,"abstract":"This editorial draws on Brandon Butler and Angela Branyon’s chapter in the International Handbook of Self-study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices for inspiration. As Butler and Branyon added, the work of self-study now extends beyond those contexts. Published self-studies now include teacher educators working in other contexts (e.g., school-based), and individuals whose primary role is not teacher education, but nevertheless whose work has an educational focus, including doctoral supervisors, administrators, and deans. While the ‘who’ of self-study is changing, the ‘why’ of self-study remains constant. Self-study offers a means for better understanding one’s self as educator and the relationship between self and practice; ‘as we study our practice and develop a deeper understanding of it, we become increasingly responsible for it’ (Pinnegar et al., 2020, p. 124). Our responsibility includes both the immediate and personal, as well as sharing and testing what we have learned with others, as Butler and Branyon (2020) describe:","PeriodicalId":45793,"journal":{"name":"Studying Teacher Education","volume":"30 7","pages":"119 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72613597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Self-Study: Challenges and Tensions in Supervising and Teaching Graduate Teaching Assistants","authors":"Ching-Hsuan Wu","doi":"10.1080/17425964.2021.1908985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17425964.2021.1908985","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This self-study researched my professional development as a teacher educator who was supervising and teaching Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs). I chose self-study as my research method primarily because it allowed me to document and study my own pedagogical thoughts and actions in relation to my supervisees, construct my personal practical knowledge out of my experiences and introspection, and have my subsequent actions progressively reflect the newly generated knowledge. The research questions are: (1) In what ways are my assumptions and actions as a supervisor challenged? and (2) How do tensions that arise during my work with GTAs in instructional practices, professionalism, and idea-elicitation contribute to the refinement of my clinical pedagogy? To answer these questions, I reflected on my dual-role experience working with GTAs based on Burns and Badiali’s conceptual framework for clinical pedagogical skills, foregrounded the process and the tensions as I tried to grow as a supervisor, and listened to my own varied voices as interpretative lenses to study my action. I want to share my findings with others who are in similar situations as teacher educators seeking to prepare novice instructors and simultaneously manage frustrations. I also aspire to reach novice teachers who are interested in understanding the clinical faculty’s side of the process. The challenges, tensions, and development in clinical pedagogy examined in this article offer insights on teacher preparation and contribute to the creation of a more productive and collegial experience of teacher education for both supervisors and supervisees.","PeriodicalId":45793,"journal":{"name":"Studying Teacher Education","volume":"32 1","pages":"162 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77816208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Considering Implications for Self and Institutions in Navigating Transitions in Teacher Education Administration","authors":"Laura C. Haniford, Laurie A. Ramirez, V. Allison","doi":"10.1080/17425964.2021.1914570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17425964.2021.1914570","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Three mid-career teacher educators, each of whom involuntarily served as mid-level administrators are now in the similar position of having left those roles. Each has a different story to tell and they come from very different institutions, yet find themselves experiencing many of the same issues and frustrations. This collaborative self-study was an intentional study of and reflection on how their administrative roles impacted or changed their perspectives on teacher education in general and how it changed them each personally. The weight of the role had lasting implications for their personal and professional selves. Their reflective journals, weekly online meetings, and responses to each other’s experiences resulted in findings that can inform the work of others in similar positions or circumstances. Those findings, while both similar and distinct, reveal enough commonality that we, as teacher educators often placed in positions of leadership, must consider the implications for our practice, our students, our scholarship community, and our selves.","PeriodicalId":45793,"journal":{"name":"Studying Teacher Education","volume":"7 1","pages":"143 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84189886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning to Breathe Again: Found Poems and Critical Friendship as Methodological Tools in Self-Study of Teaching Practices","authors":"Christi U. Edge, E. Olan","doi":"10.1080/17425964.2021.1910807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17425964.2021.1910807","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This self-study demonstrates how crafting found poems and critical friendship facilitated unstitching and (re)stitching narrative understanding for purposes of learning from pedagogy for improving practice. Findings extend existing literature by documenting how composing found poems from previous, dissertation research is a tool for inquiry, analysis, and representation for meaning-making within self-study methodology. Two sets of artifacts included the researchers’ dissertations framed as composite stories and drafts of found poems; these data were positioned and repositioned, woven as artifacts, field texts, and representations. We inquired how we might reposition ourselves to hear the multivoicedness of our temporal, personal-professional, and conceptual (con)texts. We asked, how might we utilize a familiar teaching practice to inquire into our lived experiences? How might found poems be positioned as both a methodological tool for analyzing completed research and representing meaning-making from deeply constructed narrative experiences? Found poetry enabled the researchers to evoke the fourth and fifth envisionment-building stances (Langer, 2011a), enabling them to ‘step back’ and reconsider what they know, and to develop deeper understandings that disrupted and transformed understanding. Through self-study with a critical friend, the poem as meaning-making event unfolded before us, weaving new threads, in the space of new tensions, resulting in new understandings. Analyzing and representing data through the process of composing found poems with a critical friend generates the vulnerable-confident; self-other; vision-revision; reading-composing; critiquing-discovering; powerful-empowering; learning-teaching; textual-intertextual; aesthetic-efferent; three-dimensional spaces for ongoing transformation where silent voices are liberated and heard through collaborative self-study methodology.","PeriodicalId":45793,"journal":{"name":"Studying Teacher Education","volume":"12 1","pages":"228 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83538988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fostering a Critical Friendship between a Program Coordinator and an Online Adjunct to Achieve Reciprocal Mentoring","authors":"C. Baker, Laura E. Bitto","doi":"10.1080/17425964.2021.1903413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17425964.2021.1903413","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article we explore how engaging in collaborative self-study resulted in a reciprocal mentorship platform for a mathematics specialist program coordinator and online adjunct instructor. Through the use of our mutually developed norms and a reflective dialogue protocol we examined how we were able to bridge our contexts so that we could equally engage in a graduate mathematics teacher leadership course that only one was teaching. Employing a self-study methodology centered on dialogue, we co-planned and designed learning opportunities in which data was collected using synchronous online tools, agendas, notes and audio recordings from our weekly phone conversations. This ultimately influenced our understanding of what it takes to communicate clearly when conducting a self-study that spans both physical distance, heirarchial rank, and context. The pivotal learning experiences through the implementation of a reflective protocol and collaborative norms will provide other teacher educators who engage in self-study with tools to support their own learning, advance their practice, and promote critical reflection. This study also adds to the literature on adjunct professors in both higher education and self-study.","PeriodicalId":45793,"journal":{"name":"Studying Teacher Education","volume":"35 1","pages":"188 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87165180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Care Ethics in Online Teaching","authors":"Colette Rabin","doi":"10.1080/17425964.2021.1902801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17425964.2021.1902801","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As a teacher educator, I sought to understand how to cultivate care ethics in my online teaching over a three-year period. Through surveys, student work, interviews, my course materials and teaching journal, and video-ed synchronous class sessions with seven cohorts of teacher candidates, the lenses of care ethics revealed particular challenges and possibilities for care with authentic modeling through story, practice and continuity, dialogue, and addressing power and confirmation in assessment. The self-study process helped me uncover my own assumptions to carve out better ways to cultivate caring relationships in the distanced and disembodied online environment.","PeriodicalId":45793,"journal":{"name":"Studying Teacher Education","volume":"35 1","pages":"38 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84134645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Will This Build Me or Break Me?’: The Embodied Emotional Work of a Teacher Candidate","authors":"Elizabeth M. Finlayson, E. Whiting, R. Cutri","doi":"10.1080/17425964.2021.1878350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17425964.2021.1878350","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This year-long study by an undergraduate teacher candidate explores the identity and emotional work involved in learning decisions through her teacher preparation program. Using personal reflections, analytic memos, and notes, she was able to discover patterns of learning in the emotional geographies in teacher education. Further, we employed both a critical and meta-critical friend to rigorously develop and interrogate themes and interpretations. Findings revealed that decisions to ‘invest’ in any particular learning context did not merely constitute an intellectual commitment. Rather embodied emotional responses to persons, ideologies, and environments challenged her to make sense of her place in emotional geographies. Her decision-making process involved moving toward investing in learning or presenting a more superficial performance. These decisions depended, in part, on her deliberations of whether the emotional geographies provided opportunities that she perceived would ‘build her’ or ‘break her.’ We assert that learning actively requires students to make decisions about their position, identity and belonging within educational relationships. Attending to embodied emotional work in classroom learning is often understudied, and yet is relevant to issues of power and equity with teacher education. This self-study offers teacher educators and researchers a glimpse into the benefits of a teacher candidate initiating and conducting a self-study and suggests that this could be a fruitful area to pursue methodologically. This research contributes a deeper understanding of such emotional work and how self-study involving teacher candidates can be used as a source of knowledge in teacher preparation programs.","PeriodicalId":45793,"journal":{"name":"Studying Teacher Education","volume":"21 1","pages":"82 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73460419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Donovan, Tim D. Green, Erin D. Besser, Edward L. F. González
{"title":"The Whole is Greater than the Sum of the Parts: A Self-Study of Equity and Inclusion in Online Teacher Education","authors":"L. Donovan, Tim D. Green, Erin D. Besser, Edward L. F. González","doi":"10.1080/17425964.2021.1897975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17425964.2021.1897975","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This self-study examines the intersectionality of online teaching, inclusive teaching practices, and culturally responsive teaching in an online graduate teacher education program. Inspired by student perceptions of the promotion of equity and inclusion in the online program, our critical friends group engaged in ongoing reflection and discourse about our current practice as teacher educators and as a program. At the onset of the self-study, we believed that our practices were promoting inclusivity and equity for our students. We discovered, however, that despite our intentional efforts to model and promote these, we each had room to improve our practice. As a result, we engaged in professional development to better equip ourselves to model and promote equity and inclusion in our online teacher education program. We found that there is considerable overlap in research-based effective practices for online teaching, culturally responsive teaching, and inclusive teaching. We have provided recommendations for teacher educators to consider as they design for and model the intersectionality of equity and inclusion in their practice.","PeriodicalId":45793,"journal":{"name":"Studying Teacher Education","volume":"10 1","pages":"57 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91177037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}