Chapter summary
Table 1 – Synopsis of Research Agenda
Topic | A post-intentional phenomenological study into the media and digital literacies in Canadian teacher educators’ open educational practices. |
Problem | Identified needs for media and digital literacies are found in global and national level reports. This presents an ever more pressing problem for teachers and teacher educators given the current priority for online and remote educational instruction. |
Purpose | My purpose for this research is to add to the corpus of research focusing on teacher educators and aims to expand understanding of open educational practices from teacher educators’ contexts by examining the lived experiences of teacher educators who reveal their teaching practices openly, with a specific focus on their understanding and practice with media and digital literacies. |
Research Questions | What lived experiences of media and digital literacies are evident in the open educational practices of teacher educators in Canadian faculties of education?
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In the next chapter I provide the theoretical and conceptual frameworks used in this dissertation research. This includes the theories of socio-constructivism, connectivism, philosophy of technology, and pragmatism. I explore phenomenology with a focus on post-intentional phenomenology (P-IP) as a framework for this research. Under the conceptual frameworks section, I examine fields of endeavour relating to teacher education and teacher educators, media and digital literacies, and open education.