Research by three current students and three faculty from the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education featured at the 2024 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting
The Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education was well-represented at the recent 2024 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
Social Media and the Apprenticeship of Observation – Jeffrey Carpenter, Scott Morrison and Grant Doherty ’24
This presentation shared results from a study of pre-service teachers’ experiences observing teachers and teaching on social media prior to and during their teacher education programs, and discussed how such experiences may influence their knowledge and understanding of their future profession.
A Content Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Representation in Scholastic鈥檚 Weekly Reader and Book Clubs – Ellie Cotton 鈥24, Lisa Buchanan, Kathy R. Fox, UNC Wilmington
Cotton and Buchanan鈥檚 presentation focused on the methodology and findings of Cotton鈥檚 undergraduate research in the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education. From May 2022 to April 2023, Cotton analyzed the representation of race in Scholastic Book Club flyers distributed to children in grades K-2. Cotton presented her research at 榴莲app官方网站入 2024 SURF Day as well.
鈥淭o See the World and Get Fresh Air鈥: A Case Study of Walking Curriculum in First Grade – Alice Rickards ’24 and Scott Morrison
Rickards and Morrison presented findings from their case study on the perspectives and experiences of walking curriculum on first-graders who went on walks around their school every day. Walking curriculum is when teachers take students out of the classroom on a walk with a curricular focus; it integrates movement and emergent curriculum, not a 鈥渂reak鈥 from learning. During the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years, they completed over 200 hours of observations with the teacher and students, including going on walks and conducting interviews with 24 students and 15 caregivers.
Additional presentations by Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education faculty included the following:
Exploring and Comparing Teacher Twitter Use in Three Countries: Purposes, Benefits, Challenges, and Changes – Jeffrey Carpenter, Hege Emma Rimmereide of the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Keith Turvey of the University of Brighton.
Interrogating How Teachers Search for, Decide to Download, and Review Online Educational Resource Marketplace Materials聽– Jeffrey Carpenter, and Catharyn Shelton of Northern Arizona University.
Investigating Associations of Teacher Characteristics With Open Educational Resource Usage in Social Media Communities – Jeffrey Carpenter, Fitore Morina, Tim F眉tterer, and Christian Fischer of T眉bingen University, and Joshua Rosenberg of the University of Tennessee.
Nobody Goes There Anymore, It鈥檚 Too Crowded: Historic Retrospective of Twitter #Edchat – Jeffrey Carpenter and Staudt Willet of Florida State University.