Deakin University
Browse
1/1
3 files

Addressing pre-service teachers as digital writers: Conflicts and inconsistencies in practice

journal contribution
posted on 2021-01-01, 00:00 authored by Lucinda McKnightLucinda McKnight
This article explores challenges faced when curriculum designers address pre-service English teachers as digital writers, in a “teacher as writer” program. The article considers the resilience of print dominance in writing, including in tertiary digital education spaces and how the rhetoric of digital expansion is accompanied by practices of proscription and constraint. While curriculum theory encourages pre-service teachers to think of themselves as agentive digital communicators, designers, and producers, their capacity to actually perform as digital writers during their formal studies may be limited. Teachers, meanwhile, may have ambivalent feelings about broadening definitions of writing. It seems that the entrenched nature of traditional literacies in education, despite rapid social change in broader communication media, results from a complex assemblage of generational and sexual politics, conservative or neoliberal agendas, and teacher workloads, capabilities and identities. The article invites others to consider contradictions in their own contexts.

History

Journal

Theory into Practice

Volume

60

Issue

2

Pagination

202 - 214

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Location

Abingdon, Eng.

ISSN

0040-5841

eISSN

1543-0421

Language

eng

Notes

This publication was initially submitted with the title 'The teacher as digital writer? Conflicting identities addressed in pre-service curriculum design'

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2021, College of Education and Human Ecology, Ohio State University

Usage metrics

    Research Publications

    Categories

    No categories selected

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC