This paper documents the creation, implementation and analysis of a survey instrument designed to... more This paper documents the creation, implementation and analysis of a survey instrument designed to reveal patterns of use and attitudes towards the value of social media by UK teachers. The study was motivated to discover which teachers use social media professionally, how they use it (both personally and professionally) and attitudes to social media as a professional tool (for their students' and their own professional use). The instrument was created from verbal data from two focus group discussions regarding the use of social media in education. Attitude statements were included verbatim when practical. This instrument was placed online and practising teachers invited to complete it (n = 216). Exploratory factor analysis and hierarchical clustering identified 9 factors from 54 attitude statements and 5 distinct teacher groups. The rich data allowed each group to be carefully defined, providing potentially invaluable information to school leaders when developing social media projects to recognize and accommodate the full range of teacher concerns and experience. The paper also addresses methodological concerns regarding instrument creation, dealing with missing data and the impact of missing data on subsequent analysis.
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on how beginning teachers gain support during teacher training, apply... more ABSTRACT This paper focuses on how beginning teachers gain support during teacher training, applying concepts of social capital to understand how personal networks can give access to affective and cognitive support. It is based on qualitative case studies of three secondary school trainees during a full-time year-long programme in England. Relationships which supported trainees' developing practice can be characterised differently to those which enhanced their sense of belonging to the profession. Whether supportive relationships developed depended not only on the actions and attitudes of the trainees but also those of others. The paper suggests wider implications for the support of beginning teachers.
This study, drawing on the voice of beginning teachers, seeks to illuminate their experiences of ... more This study, drawing on the voice of beginning teachers, seeks to illuminate their experiences of building professional relationships as they become part of the teaching profession. A networking perspective was taken to expose and explore the use of others during the first ...
View all references) sets out a view of thinking about the development of professional expertise.... more View all references) sets out a view of thinking about the development of professional expertise. In the case of novice teachers this considers them to be participating increasingly centrally in communities of fellow practitioners or 'communities of practice'. Lave and Wenger's ...
Abstract This paper illuminates the experiences of beginning teachers using a participatory persp... more Abstract This paper illuminates the experiences of beginning teachers using a participatory perspective approach and drawing on some of these teachers' perceptions. We place the 'subject'of workplace learning research centrally in understanding the relatedness ...
... Dialogue, as indicated earlier, aided such reifications. ... Different delegates value differ... more ... Dialogue, as indicated earlier, aided such reifications. ... Different delegates value different aspects of the materials; for example summaries of content presented, links to further ... Figure 1An emerging model of a conceptualisation of the role of events within professional lives. ...
PurposeThis paper, taking a participatory perspective of learning, seeks to look at the interact... more PurposeThis paper, taking a participatory perspective of learning, seeks to look at the interaction between individuals and their workplace, focusing on the perceptions of workplaces and self by beginning teachers in terms of support for their learning. Design/ ...
International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2007
As part of the Learning How to Learn in Classrooms, Schools and Networks Project, a mapping tool ... more As part of the Learning How to Learn in Classrooms, Schools and Networks Project, a mapping tool and associated interviews were devised to capture practitioners' views of the networks associated with their schools and local authorities (LAs). This article discusses the development and ...
This paper documents the creation, implementation and analysis of a survey instrument designed to... more This paper documents the creation, implementation and analysis of a survey instrument designed to reveal patterns of use and attitudes towards the value of social media by UK teachers. The study was motivated to discover which teachers use social media professionally, how they use it (both personally and professionally) and attitudes to social media as a professional tool (for their students' and their own professional use). The instrument was created from verbal data from two focus group discussions regarding the use of social media in education. Attitude statements were included verbatim when practical. This instrument was placed online and practising teachers invited to complete it (n = 216). Exploratory factor analysis and hierarchical clustering identified 9 factors from 54 attitude statements and 5 distinct teacher groups. The rich data allowed each group to be carefully defined, providing potentially invaluable information to school leaders when developing social media projects to recognize and accommodate the full range of teacher concerns and experience. The paper also addresses methodological concerns regarding instrument creation, dealing with missing data and the impact of missing data on subsequent analysis.
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on how beginning teachers gain support during teacher training, apply... more ABSTRACT This paper focuses on how beginning teachers gain support during teacher training, applying concepts of social capital to understand how personal networks can give access to affective and cognitive support. It is based on qualitative case studies of three secondary school trainees during a full-time year-long programme in England. Relationships which supported trainees' developing practice can be characterised differently to those which enhanced their sense of belonging to the profession. Whether supportive relationships developed depended not only on the actions and attitudes of the trainees but also those of others. The paper suggests wider implications for the support of beginning teachers.
This study, drawing on the voice of beginning teachers, seeks to illuminate their experiences of ... more This study, drawing on the voice of beginning teachers, seeks to illuminate their experiences of building professional relationships as they become part of the teaching profession. A networking perspective was taken to expose and explore the use of others during the first ...
View all references) sets out a view of thinking about the development of professional expertise.... more View all references) sets out a view of thinking about the development of professional expertise. In the case of novice teachers this considers them to be participating increasingly centrally in communities of fellow practitioners or 'communities of practice'. Lave and Wenger's ...
Abstract This paper illuminates the experiences of beginning teachers using a participatory persp... more Abstract This paper illuminates the experiences of beginning teachers using a participatory perspective approach and drawing on some of these teachers' perceptions. We place the 'subject'of workplace learning research centrally in understanding the relatedness ...
... Dialogue, as indicated earlier, aided such reifications. ... Different delegates value differ... more ... Dialogue, as indicated earlier, aided such reifications. ... Different delegates value different aspects of the materials; for example summaries of content presented, links to further ... Figure 1An emerging model of a conceptualisation of the role of events within professional lives. ...
PurposeThis paper, taking a participatory perspective of learning, seeks to look at the interact... more PurposeThis paper, taking a participatory perspective of learning, seeks to look at the interaction between individuals and their workplace, focusing on the perceptions of workplaces and self by beginning teachers in terms of support for their learning. Design/ ...
International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2007
As part of the Learning How to Learn in Classrooms, Schools and Networks Project, a mapping tool ... more As part of the Learning How to Learn in Classrooms, Schools and Networks Project, a mapping tool and associated interviews were devised to capture practitioners' views of the networks associated with their schools and local authorities (LAs). This article discusses the development and ...
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