The document discusses a study that investigated how teacher educators relate the term "pedagogical innovation" to their use of educational technology. The study collected 110 narratives from teacher educators describing instances of pedagogical innovation and their definitions of the term. The findings suggest that teacher educators' discourse about innovation reflects socio-economic trends but differs from other professional fields and tended to mention general technologies rather than recent technologies.
Teacher Educators' Discourse on Pedagogical Innovation
1. HOW DO TEACHER EDUCATORS
RELATE THE TERM “PEDAGOGICAL
INNOVATION” TO THEIR USE OF
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Dalit Levy
Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology & Arts
Lea Baratz
Achva College
The International Conference on Higher Education 2014 (ICHE2014)
Tel Aviv, Israel, March 17, 2014
2. An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
• What do you see?
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014
10. An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
• What do you see?
• What does “see”?
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
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11. An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014
12. PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY
• To investigate the use of the
semantic term innovation as it
finds expression in teacher
educators' definitions
• To reveal connections between
ideology and the “language of
innovation” of teacher
educators
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
וברץ לוי,10אוקטובר2013
13. Words of Pedagogical Innovation
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
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14. Words of Pedagogical Innovation
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MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
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15. QUESTIONS
• What is “the language of
innovation” of teacher educators?
• Does it express a new kind of
educational reality? Or, is it a semantic
habit that gives expression to the socio-
economic trends and ideologies?
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
וברץ לוי,10אוקטובר2013
16. An Image of Innovation
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
וברץ לוי,10אוקטובר2013
17. Another Image of Innovation
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MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
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19. (By Alec Couros, 2010)
Words of Innovation
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
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20. QUESTIONS
• What is “the language of
innovation” of teacher educators?
• Does it express a new kind of
educational reality? Or, is it a semantic
habit that gives expression to the socio-
economic trends and ideologies?
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014
21. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
Language and ideology
Ideology of teacher educators
and its influence on their
attitudes
Innovations – semantic habits or
ideological trends
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
22. METHOD
A research tool was designed to collect
teacher educators' stories
The respondents were first asked to characterize
elements of pedagogical innovation from their
field of practice, according to the principle of a
"small story" (Bamberg, 2006)
At the end, the respondents were asked
to provide a definition of pedagogical
innovation
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
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23. METHOD
A research tool was designed to collect
teacher educators' stories
The respondents were first asked to
characterize elements of pedagogical
innovation from their field of practice,
according to the principle of a "small
story" (Bamberg, 2006)
At the end, the respondents were asked
to provide a definition of pedagogical
innovation
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
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24. METHOD
110 responses were collected (in a
narrative form), from teacher educators
in 7 colleges of education around Israel
An inductive analysis was carried out in
three stages
Here, we focus on the analysis of the
responses to the first quesstion:
“describe a situation in which you
implemented pedagogical innovation”
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
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29. SO, WHAT CHARACTERIZES COLLEGE TEACHERS’
DISCOURSE ABOUT PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION?
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
The discussion of innovation among
teacher educators reflects components
of semantic habits that give expression
to the trends of socio-economic policy-
makers (Ben-Peretz).
The ideology that teacher educators hold
influences the semantic use of the
concept of innovation, as was reflected
in the definitions of the research
respondents.Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014
30. SO, WHAT CHARACTERIZES COLLEGE TEACHERS’
DISCOURSE ABOUT PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION?
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
The discussion of innovation among
teacher educators seems to differ from
what can be found in other professional
“communities of practice” (agriculture,
environment, health, high-tech, business
development, science…)
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014
31. SO, WHAT CHARACTERIZES COLLEGE TEACHERS’
DISCOURSE ABOUT PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION?
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
The discourse tended to mention
instructional technologies
However, it did not refer to the most
recent instructional technologies
The stories tended to use general terms,
such as "distance learning" and "the
course website”, and not specific
technologies
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014
32. Back to an Image of Pedagogical
Innovation
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
• What do you see
now?
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014