Table of Contents
Front Matter
- Abstract
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication and Declaration
- Guide to Reading this Scalar Dissertation
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Glossary
Chapter 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Background
- 1.2 Rationale
- 1.3 Research Questions
- 1.4 Researcher Positionality
- 1.5 Alternative Dissertation Design
- 1.6 Chapter Summary
Chapter 2 Literature Review
- 2.0 Foundational Frameworks
- 2.1 Theoretical Frameworks
- 2.1.1 Socio-constructivism
- 2.1.2 Connectivism
- 2.1.3 Philosophy of Teaching
- 2.1.4 Pragmatism
- 2.1.5 Phenomenology
- 2.1.5.1 Post-intentional Phenomenology (P-IP)
- 2.2 Conceptual Frameworks
- 2.2.1 Teaching as a Teacher Educator in a Faculty of Education
- 2.2.2 Open Education
- 2.2.2.1 Open educational resources (OER)
- 2.2.2.2 Open educational pedagogies (OEP)
- 2.2.2.3 Open educational practices (OEPr)
- 2.2.3 Literacies
- 2.2.3.1 Media literacy
- 2.2.3.2 Digital literacy
- 2.2.3.3 Literacies: Untangling a concept
- 2.3 Crystallizing Research Frameworks
Chapter 3 Research Design
- 3.1 Methodology
- 3.2 Methods
- 3.2.1 The Gathering
- 3.2.2 Research Phases and Timeline
- 3.2.3 Participants
- 3.2.4 Interview Design
- 3.2.5 Coding and Analysis Process
- 3.2.6 Validity = Credibility + Trustworthiness
- 3.2.7 Ethics
- 3.3 Crystallizing the Research Design
Chapter 4 Research Findings
- 4.0 Data Analysis - A Diamond in the Rough
- 4.1 Facet one: Teacher educators
- 4.2 Facet two: Open educational practices
- 4.2.1 Access
- 4.2.2 Choice
- 4.2.3 Connections
- 4.3 Facet three: Media and digital literacies
- 4.3.1 Communication
- 4.3.2 Creativity
- 4.3.3 Criticality
- 4.4 Crystallizing the findings
Chapter 5 Discussion
- 5.0 Introduction to the Discussion
- 5.1 Dimension One: Communication
- 5.2 Dimension Two: Creativity
- 5.3 Dimension Three: Connecting
- 5.4 Dimension Four: Criticality
- 5.5 Crystallizing the Discussion
Chapter 6 Conclusion
- 6.0 Introduction
- 6.1 Chapter Summaries
- 6.2 Contributions
- 6.3 Implications
- 6.4 Limitations
- 6.5 Recommendations
- 6.6 Crystallizing Final Thoughts
Appendices