Title
Purposeful Tensions: Lessons Learned from Metaphors in Teacher Candidates' Digital Stories
Abstract
This collective case study examines how two teacher candidates' digital story projects created in literacy methods courses made visible their negotiated and evolving visions of teaching and learning. The digital stories were created to show and describe their future literacy classrooms. Using metaphoric analysis, the researchers uncovered the implicit metaphors of teachers and students present in each of the teacher candidates' digital stories. Looking across these metaphors, tensions and alignments between how the teacher candidates envisioned the role of teacher and the role of student and how these relate to prominent models of education including Industrial and Inquiry models are apparent. Implications for practice include modifications made to literacy methods courses to support teacher candidates to begin the negotiation of their professional identities as they explore multiple experiences of teaching and learning. These modifications include: (a) prompting teacher candidates to see themselves as readers, writers, and inquirers; (b) modeling and experiencing inquiry in teacher education coursework; and (c) providing opportunities for teacher candidates to experience purposeful tensions within their teacher education classes.
Department(s)
Childhood Education and Family Studies
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/08878730.2017.1343883
Publication Date
10-2-2017
Recommended Citation
Davis, Tammi R., Jackie Sydnor, Sharon Daley, and Linda Coggin. "Purposeful tensions: Lessons learned from metaphors in teacher candidates' digital stories." The Teacher Educator 52, no. 4 (2017): 291-307.
Journal Title
Teacher Educator
