Share Paper: Looking outside the circles: Considering the contexts influencing TPACK development and enactment

  1. Michael Phillips, Monash University, Australia
  2. Matthew Koehler, Michigan State University, United States
  3. Joshua Rosenberg, Michigan State University, United States
Thursday, March 24 10:15-10:45 AM Scarbrough 2

Abstract: Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) is a well-known theoretical framework that has reshaped contemporary understanding of the interplay between forms of knowledge required by expert teachers. This paper draws on recent thinking and previously unpublished empirical data to shift the research focus to more closely examine the contexts in which TPACK is developed and enacted. In particular, this paper examines the way knowledge and activities of teachers are dialogically linked to the contextual conditions that surround them by considering teachers’ knowledge, identity and practice as part of a sociocultural, situated context. Two conclusions result from this work indicating the enactment ...