Digitalise and capitalise?: Teachers’ self-understanding in 21st-century teaching contexts

Digitalise and capitalise? : Teachers’ self-understanding in 21st-century teaching contexts

Lindberg, Ola J. (author): Umeå universitet,Pedagogiska institutionen,Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Olofsson, Anders D., 1973- (author): Umeå universitet,Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap,Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

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2018-08-22
2019
English.
In: Oxford Review of Education. - : Routledge. - 0305-4985 .- 1465-3915. ; 45:1, s. 102-118

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The digitalisation of educational contexts has changed the practice of teaching and learning. In this, teachers have a key role in enacting digital technologies for this purpose and have different opportunities to do so. This article explores how digitalisation can affect teachers by focusing on: (a) how teachers manage to capitalise on digitalisation; and (b) how digitalisation can affect and reconstruct their self-understanding. Two teacher colleagues of English as a foreign language (EFL) in the same teaching team are interviewed and observed. Drawing on the interplay between self-image, self-esteem, job motivation, and task perception, it is shown how the teachers’ self-understanding is played out and changes due to the call for digitalisation. Whereas one of the teachers has been able to capitalise on digitalisation in a way that has been beneficial both professionally and personally, the other has felt pressurised by it. A conclusion is that a limited or extended use of digital technologies should not be taken as an indicator of teaching quality.

By the author/editor: Fransson, Göran, ...; Holmberg, Jörgen ...; Lindberg, Ola J.; Olofsson, Anders ...

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