Pedagogical narrative: Working with technology as student teachers

• The objective of this chapter is to provide an illustration of how digital technologies are being experienced/utilised/problematised by physical educators. This chapter introduces two Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) students working at the University of Gothenburg and focuses on course work conducted by those students within their program. The students received an assignment to choose a particular digital technology, develop their own competence with that technology, and then demonstrate to peers how the technology can be used to facilitate learning related to the Swedish physical education curriculum for upper secondary school. A narrative of their experiences and reflections, developed through written reflections as well as informal conversations with the lead author, is presented in the first section. Three theoretical accounts of the practitioners’ narrative are then put forward. A Deweyan perspective draws attention to the ways that students and their situations are continually transformed in transaction and how digital technologies become implicated in this process. A Foucaultian perspective focuses on the regulating and controlling aspects of technology and highlights the need for care when using digital technologies. An applied Information Technology perspective highlights the ways in which digital technologies may become part of the social practices of physical education. After introducing these perspectives, a broader pedagogical account is offered in which connections between the three perspectives and current physical education scholarship is made. These connections concern: (1) meaning making; (2) student agency and possibilities for student decision making; (3) the effects of technology on lesson content; and (4) students’ digital competence. The chapter is concluded with reflections from the two PETE students.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Didaktik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Didactics (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

technology

physical education teacher education

applied information technology

Dewey

Foucault

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