Lolita, Facebook, and the Third Space of Literacy Teacher Education
Abstract
From Article:
The article derives from an Adolescent Literacy course that had been designed to foster preservice teachers’ knowledge, skills, and dispositions to teach from a multiliteracies perspective. The transformations that occurred to the learning environment and to preservice teachers’ dispositions toward their repertoires of literacy practices suggested that third space theory, as discussed by Gutierrez ´ (2008), might facilitate critical understandings about these transactions. Hence, at the course’s conclusion, I designed, and secured institutional IRB approval to conduct, a self-study of curriculum, teaching, and learning experiences in the course. Specifically, the article explores a learning task in which groups of preservice teachers created multigenre projects to represent key themes from self-selected books that they had read in in-class book clubs. The multi-genre assignment was designed to provide opportunities for preservice teachers to draw on any of their in- and out-of-school literacy practices that they wished. Based on literacy logs (Bean, Bean and Bean 1999) that students completed at the beginning of the semester, in which they described their multiple literacy practices, I expected their multigenre projects would involve technology, the Internet, other multimedia, and literary genres.
Reference
Skerrett, A. (2010). Lolita, Facebook, and the third space of literacy teacher education. Educational Studies, 46(1), 67-84.
Journal
Educational Studies
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
- Southwestern United States
Institutional Context
Certification Level
Programatic Focus
Research Location Context
- Adolescent Literacy Course
Preservice Participants
Preservice Sample Size
4
Duration of Data Collection
Data Sources
- course materials
- Course project
- email correspondence
- peer feedback
- reflections
- Syllabi from University courses
- Teaching Journal
Data Analysis Tools
- iterative analysis
- Thematic analysis
Researcher Positionality
- inside (staying their own students)
- Inside (studying their own practices)
Research Questions
“What happens to the social organization of the learning environment and
preservice teachers’ relationships to repertoires of literacy practices when their
out-of-school literacies are integrated into the teacher education classroom?”
Is this research question explicit from the manuscript? Yes