New chapter on teacher cognition
The full text of my new book chapter The Role of Early Learning Experience in Shaping Teacher Cognition and Technology Use is now accessible via the Durham University depository (here). The thinking behind this chapter started on the day of my viva three years ago when Gary Motteram (my internal examiner then) suggested exploring teachers’ early experiences and technology use as a new area of research. Indeed, a brief comment can go a long way 🙂
It should be noted that the book is edited my Paul Breen from our Doctoral Community and features chapters by our colleagues Magdalena De Stefani (Challenging Traditions: Constructing an Identity through Innovative Teaching Practices) and Magda Rostron (Exploring Identity of Non-Native Teachers of English through Narratives of their Experience). The Community is therefore a great space for potential collaborations around publications.
Thanks Mariam!! 🙂
My pleasure. I wish you all the best in your research and look forward to your future publications.
Hi Mariam,
Thank you for taking the trouble to post the link to the book edited by Paul and the information about our chapters. 🙂
Best wishes to everyone,
Magda
Brillaint! Thanks Mariam. I have now added these to our publications tab.
Sure. They are:
Breen, P. (2014). Philosophies, Traditional Pedagogy, and New Technologies: A Report on a Case Study of EAP Teachers’ Integration of Technology into Traditional Practice. In Breen, P. (ed.) Cases on Teacher Identity, Diversity, and Cognition in Higher Education. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 317-341.
De Stefani, M. (2014). Challenging Traditions: Constructing an Identity through Innovative Teaching Practices. In Breen, P. (ed.) Cases on Teacher Identity, Diversity, and Cognition in Higher Education. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 258-286.
Rostron, M. (2014). Exploring Indentity of Non-Native Teachers of English through Narratives of their Experience. In Breen, P. (ed.) Cases on Teacher Identity, Diversity, and Cognition in Higher Education. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 140-170.
This is great news Mariam and you also offer food for thought in terms of how to make our research available to everyone and not just other academics and students. In fact, it’s the ones who don’t have access to journals and libraries who would probably get the most out of our work in practical terms. Do you have the references for the book and the chapters written by the LTE crowd?
Thanks.
Hi Achilleas. I have to say, I benefitted a lot from what you have written in the area of publications whether on this blog or on your own. This includes drawing on your own experience as reviewer as well as what you have shared of news from the publishing world. So, thank you for the inspiration and the information.
As for making the chapter accessible, since the research underpinning this chapter was conducted in collaboration with language teachers in Egypt, I wanted them (and other teachers in the region) to have access to it. When I inquired about the price of the book I found it way beyond what an average teacher there could afford. I wrote to the publisher about this asking them for permission to post it on my website and Durham University depository. We had a short correspondence and they agreed stipulating that it should not go on Academia.edu, Researchgate or similar websites. I have now sent the link to my colleagues in Cairo, and feel delighted every time I imagine the text being used in my old teacher education program there and in similar programs around the world.
I realize that not all publishers would agree to this, but the experience made me think about our PhD projects’ outputs and the thousands of researchers who could benefit from them, but may not have access. I think such negotiations with publishers are worth having even if the final answer is negative, for access to knowledge is a fundamental human right that should neither be bought nor sold.
Congratulations Mariam (and everyone else!), and thanks for making this available as an open access resource! I am looking forward to reading it!