Defining literacy self images: Using digital storytelling to empower preservice reading teachers as strategic problem solvers
Abstract
Development of preservice teachers emphasizes the content and pedagogical knowledge of instruction and an understanding of the decision making processes of teachers. This knowledge develops voice in the educational world they are entering. This research examines preservice teachers’ awareness of their literacy autobiography and the experience of struggling with technology to understand themselves as strategic problem solvers. The study has three components: the writing process to develop a literacy autobiography, developing technologically challenging digital storytelling, and examining connections between the literacy autobiography and technology production on views of themselves as strategic problem solvers. Results of the study indicate that writing literacy autobiographies and designing a digital storytelling supported a sense of teachers as strategic problem solvers.
Reference
Collier, J. K. (2006). Defining literacy self images: Using digital storytelling to empower preservice reading teachers as strategic problem solvers. In A. Heron-Hruby (Ed.), The 26th Yearbook of the American Reading Forum. Retrieved from http://americanreadingforum.org/yearbook/index.shtml
Journal
Yearbook of the American Reading Forum
Analysis
Is this article part of a larger project or series of studies?
no
Does this study draw on a large, preexisting data set?
no
Research Approach
Geographic Setting
Institutional Context
Certification Level
Programatic Focus
Research Location Context
Preservice Participants
Preservice Sample Size
104
Duration of Data Collection
Data Sources
- Autobiographies
- Blog group discussion
- Course evaluations
- Interviews
- Reflective journals
- Survey
Data Analysis Tools
Researcher Positionality
- inside (staying their own students)
Research Questions
What are preservice teachers' "perceptions of themselves as
readers and writers?" (p. 6)
Is this research question explicit from the manuscript? No
How does "developing technologically challenging digital autobiography" impact "candidates’ understanding of themselves as strategic problem solvers?" (p. 7)
Is this research question explicit from the manuscript? No
What connections existed "between the development of their literacy autobiography in the digital storytelling format and the way they see themselves as strategic problem solvers?" (p. 8)
Is this research question explicit from the manuscript? No