Tuesday, November 5
3:00 PM-4:00 PM
CST
Galerie 5

The teacher educator on Twitter: A Misfit or a Conformist? Tensions and Twitter: My First Self Study to find a way of my own.

Roundtable ID: 55571
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    Ferhan Odabasi
    Anadolu University
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    Ümit Girgin
    Anadolu University

Abstract: Being a teacher educator is “Schizophrenic” in many aspects. You cannot teach a topic only for its own sake but rather in a manner that would cover attitude, manner, relations and results that it would arouse. You may recommend the teacher candidates a new approach or a medium and then find yourself in a well of problems that you had no idea how they would come out with those initiatives and do not know how to handle the situation. Being a teacher is regarded much more convenient since teachers primarily saw their responsibility as implementing what researchers tell them valid practices (Samara and Freese, 2009). However it is only by first hand experiences that researchers reach an idea and teacher experiences are unique in that sense. Thus, looking at the issue from this point of view teachers and teacher educators could reach a common consensus where they incorporate similar methods to study their practice (Samara and Freese, 2009/p.5 /) The new research paradigm, qualitative, with tools as teacher inquiry, reflective practice and action research helped to solve the tensions in teaching and learning. Self-study as a research methodology emerged within this qualitative tools in teacher education. Self-study allows researchers to use their experience as resources for their research (Ferldman, 2002, p. 971) This potential, thus, leads way to both personal and professional levels (Samara and Freese, 2009).

Presider: Sharonda Lipscomb, University of North Texas

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