John P Carpenter
Biographic Data
| ID | 660593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John P Carpenter |
| GIVEN NAMES | John P |
| FAMILY NAME | Carpenter |
| SIGNATURE | CARPENTER J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Elon University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9228-3962 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Exploring teacher perspectives on contemporary complexities in K-12 ICT integration
Although the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated information and communication technology (ICT) use, concerns around the impacts of technology on young people are on the rise. The contemporary influences on teachers as they make decisions about ICT and how different contextual elements affect their technology use are not well understood. To address this literature gap, this qualitative study collected data via interviews with K-12 teachers (N = 16). Da…
Ex-Edchat
Unlocking the potential of resources
Educational resources like teaching materials, worksheets, and other instructional content are an essential source of teachers’ classroom practice. Prior research suggests that teachers use social media to acquire and share such resources, yet little is known about whether social media interaction indicate teacher’s resource-uptake for classroom practice. Drawing on an affinity-space perspective, this study examines how teacher-oriented education…
Teachers’ Instructional Use of YouTube
Although YouTube is widely used worldwide, little is known about how pre-K–12 teachers employ it for instructional purposes. This article reports findings from a national survey of U.S. pre-K–12 teachers ( N = 393) on their instructional use of YouTube. Nearly three-quarters of respondents reported using the platform as a classroom resource, with almost half doing so at least daily or weekly. On average, teachers devoted 17.9% of instructional ti…
Why pre-service teachers do not use social media for professional purposes
Social media can support teachers' informal professional learning, yet professional non-use remains underexamined. This mixed-methods study investigates pre-service teachers’ non-use of social media for professional purposes using the Will–Skill–Tool (WST) framework. In a cross-sectional survey of 147 pre-service teachers, users and non-users are compared on motivation, perceived relevance, and self-assessed skill. A MANOVA indicates significant …
Social media and pre-service teachers’ apprenticeships of observation
Before pre-service teachers (PSTs) enter educator preparation programs, their experiences as K-12 students shape their understanding of teaching. Additionally, many aspiring teachers are exposed via social media to ideas, resources, and narratives about teachers and teaching. To help explore and conceptualize how social media may be adding to PSTs’ knowledge and expectations of teaching, we interviewed 28 PSTs about factors, experiences, and role…
Teachers’ perceived stressors and stress from Instagram use
Many teachers use social media for professional purposes, but the impact of these activities on their well-being is underexplored. In this study, we developed four scales to assess stressors from teachers’ Instagram use and examined their relationship to Instagram-related stress among 304 teachers. Structural equation modeling revealed that information overload, social comparison, and procrastination are associated with teacher stress. Passive In…
Exploring and comparing teachers' X/Twitter use in three countries
In recent years, social media platforms have become key elements in many teachers' professional lives. In particular, teacher professional activities on X (formerly Twitter) have received attention from scholars. However, research has rarely explored X/Twitter use with attention to the diverse national contexts in which teachers work. To address this literature gap, this qualitative study collected data via individual and focus group interviews w…
Educators’ perspectives on and motivations for using TeachersPayTeachers.com
TeachersPayTeachers.com (TpT) is an influential online education resource marketplace where users download, buy, and sell education content. How and why educators use platforms like TpT has received only limited scholarly attention. This research therefore addresses a gap in the literature by exploring educators’ (N = 1359) self-reported uses and perceptions of TpT. Participants reported intensive and multifaceted TpT use, in particular to addres…
The importance of context in teacher educators’ professional digital competence
Digital technologies permeate modern life, and schools are accordingly expected to help students develop related knowledge and skills. As a result, educators’ professional digital competence (PDC) has received substantial attention from school leaders, policymakers, teacher educators, and researchers. Theory and prior research suggest that educators’ PDC does not solely determine their technology use, with contextual factors, such as competing cu…
A literature review on self-regulated learning and personal learning environments
This article analyzes the relationship between self-regulated learning (SRL) and personal learning environments (PLE) in light of the educational academic literature of the decade 2010–2020. This study uses a systematized literature review followed by a qualitative analysis of the most cited literature to establish a narrative that highlights and deconstructs the close relationship between learners’ SRL skills, and their capacity to develop and r…
Digital social support among educators in social media
How and why educators use TikTok
The education influencer
Educator engagement with social media’s entrepreneurial and commercial facets has received limited scholarly attention. This conceptual paper defines and contextualizes the education influencer phenomenon in relation to literature on micro-celebrity, social media influencers, teacher social media use, teacher identity, and teacher entrepreneurship. Some educators use social media platforms to gain large audiences of followers, develop personal br…
Using social media in pre-service teacher education
Lifting the veil on TeachersPayTeachers.com
TeachersPayTeachers.com (TpT) has emerged as an alternative to traditional curricular publishing houses; however, the critical investigation into this for-profit platform is limited. The aggregate content offered and downloaded from the platform through 2019 was Web-scraped, enabling us to construct a content model of TpT and provide descriptive results regarding the interactions between content, technology, and users/usage on TpT. We find TpT’s …
Instagram as a platform for teacher collaboration and digital social support
Social media platforms can be sites for professional collaboration and the provision of digital social support among teachers. Instagram is one such platform that is widely used but that has received only limited attention from education researchers. To date, little is known about which teachers use Instagram for collaboration, the ways in which they collaborate, and how this collaboration contributes to their perceptions of digital social suppor…
Instagramming for Justice
Teachers using technology for co-teaching and crowdsourcing
Pre‐service teachers’ perceptions of social media data privacy policies
Matters of data privacy related to social media are increasingly relevant for educators as happenings such as the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal have attracted public attention. Many educators use social media for professional purposes, including with their students and should, therefore, be knowledgeable regarding data privacy issues that impact education. This research explores this issue from an interpretive paradigm based on a mixed‐methods…
A tale of two subreddits
Despite social media’s ubiquity in modern life, research on some topics related to educators’ use of social media for professional purposes remains underdeveloped, such as how use may change over time. This study explores educators’ self‐directed learning through social media by comparing change and continuity in how users contribute, interact and converse in two teaching‐related subreddits, r/Teachers and r/education. More than a million Reddit …
Tales of the Terminal Pleistocene
In this chapter, the authors describe and characterize the Sonoran Clovis site patterns, along with the organization of lithic technology and the cultural landscape. The bones were deposited in red soil of Pleistocene age, all indicating an abundance of Terminal Pleistocene remains with cultural associations. It is often described as a pronounced reversal in the overall warming trend that characterized the terminal Pleistocene. The archaeological…
The teachers’ lounge and the debate hall
Teachers on Reddit? Exploring contributions and interactions in four teaching-related subreddits
The website Reddit has received scant attention from educational researchers despite the presence of numerous teaching-related subreddits that host thousands of threaded conversations. The purpose of this study was to provide an initial comparison of discussions occurring in several different affinity spaces on Reddit. Because of the lack of relevant prior research, there was no baseline for what to expect in Reddit discussions, so all posts and …
Transformative instruction or old wine in new skins? Exploring how and why educators use HyperDocs
How and why are educators using Instagram
Social Capital and Trust in South-east Asian Cities
This paper conducts a comparative analysis of social capital and environmental management in two rapidly growing regions in south-east Asia, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City. Theoretical and empirical triangulation are used to clarify the nature of social capital and the ways that gender, in particular, affects trust and co-operation. Theoretical triangulation is accomplished by drawing on conceptual arguments made in economics, geography and urban p…
There's no referee on social media”
Teacher identity and crossing the professional-personal divide on twitter
What do U.S. and Spanish pre-service teachers think about educational and professional use of Twitter? A comparative study
Faunal Remains and Subsistence Practices at the Archaeological Site La Playa (Son)
Results from the analysis of faunal remains collected from the archaeological site La Playa, Sonora, Mexico, constitute the focus of this paper. Based on the identifications of the archaeozoological material, the subsistence practices (mobility to hunt prey, resource diversity, and organization to obtain them) of the population who inhabited La Playa in the Early Agricultural period (1500/800 B.C.-A.D. 200) were determined. It seems from the resu…
Is fairness used instrumentally? Evidence from sequential bargaining
Bargaining Outcomes as the Result of Coordinated Expectations
Experimental studies of two-person sequential bargaining demonstrate that the concept of subgame perfection is not a reliable predictor of actual behavior. Alternative explanations argue that fairness influences outcomes and that bargainer expectations matter and are likely not to be coordinated at the outset. This study examines the process by which bargainers in dyads coordinate their expectations on a bargaining convention and how this convent…
Using social media in pre-service teacher education
Mobile instant messaging for professional learning
Exploitation aversion
The teachers’ lounge and the debate hall
Educators’ perspectives on the impact of Edcamp unconference professional learning
Edcamps are a voluntary, democratic form of unconference. This paper presents participants’ perceptions regarding the impact of Edcamps. Data were gathered from a survey and interviews (N=105). Participants overwhelmingly reported that Edcamp experiences caused changes in their practices and in student learning. The impacts of Edcamps were often described in terms of student engagement, experiences, and dispositions, rather than traditional measu…
How and why educators use TikTok
Edcamp unconferences
Edcamps are a free, voluntary, and participant-driven form of unconference professional development. This article reports on survey data gathered from 769 Edcamp participants. Beforehand, these educators indicated diverse motivations for their attendance, including anticipation of what, how, and with whom they would learn. Afterwards, respondents overwhelmingly gave high ratings to their Edcamp experiences, and expressed interest in participating…
What should teacher educators know about technology? Perspectives and self-assessments
Enriching Professional Learning Networks
Instagramming for Justice
Spam and Educators’ Twitter Use
Educator perceptions of district-mandated Edcamp unconferences
Using Twitter in Higher Education in Spain and the USA
This article examines student and teachers’ use and perceptions of Twitter, based on a mixed-method comparative approach. Participants (N=153) were education majors who used Twitter as a part of required coursework in their programs at two universities in Spain and the United States. The theoretical background covers research on international work carried out on Twitter as well as a brief overview of the introduction of technology in two educatio…
Fairness and Freight-Handlers
The authors draw on an internal attitude survey conducted yearly from 1996 to 2000 in the freight-handling terminals of a unionized trucking firm to investigate the effect of local labor market conditions on employee wage-fairness perceptions. Their research design exploits the fact that local managers had no discretion to vary wage rates in response to local labor market conditions; local economic shocks thus generated exogenous variation in the…
Is fairness used instrumentally? Evidence from sequential bargaining
Bargaining Outcomes as the Result of Coordinated Expectations
Experimental studies of two-person sequential bargaining demonstrate that the concept of subgame perfection is not a reliable predictor of actual behavior. Alternative explanations argue that fairness influences outcomes and that bargainer expectations matter and are likely not to be coordinated at the outset. This study examines the process by which bargainers in dyads coordinate their expectations on a bargaining convention and how this convent…
Trust and Reciprocity
Social Capital and Trust in South-east Asian Cities
This paper conducts a comparative analysis of social capital and environmental management in two rapidly growing regions in south-east Asia, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City. Theoretical and empirical triangulation are used to clarify the nature of social capital and the ways that gender, in particular, affects trust and co-operation. Theoretical triangulation is accomplished by drawing on conceptual arguments made in economics, geography and urban p…
Fairness and Freight-Handlers
The authors draw on an internal attitude survey conducted yearly from 1996 to 2000 in the freight-handling terminals of a unionized trucking firm to investigate the effect of local labor market conditions on employee wage-fairness perceptions. Their research design exploits the fact that local managers had no discretion to vary wage rates in response to local labor market conditions; local economic shocks thus generated exogenous variation in the…
Cognitive skills affect economic preferences, strategic behavior, and job attachment
Economic analysis has so far said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS) are related to the individual's economic preferences in different choice domains, such as risk taking or saving, and how preferences in different domains are related to each other. Using a sample of 1,000 trainee truckers we report three findings. First, there is a strong and significant relationship between an individual's CS and preferences. Individuals wit…
Faunal Remains and Subsistence Practices at the Archaeological Site La Playa (Son)
Results from the analysis of faunal remains collected from the archaeological site La Playa, Sonora, Mexico, constitute the focus of this paper. Based on the identifications of the archaeozoological material, the subsistence practices (mobility to hunt prey, resource diversity, and organization to obtain them) of the population who inhabited La Playa in the Early Agricultural period (1500/800 B.C.-A.D. 200) were determined. It seems from the resu…
How and Why Educators Use Twitter
While the microblogging service Twitter is increasingly popular among educators and offers numerous affordances for learning, its relationship with formal education systems remains complicated by generally ambivalent educator attitudes and institutional policies. To better understand the role Twitter plays in education, we conducted a survey of 755 K–16 educators that yielded quantitative and qualitative data concerning how and why the medium is …
Engagement through microblogging
Traditional, top-down professional development (PD) can render teachers mere implementers of the ideas of others, but there is some hope that the participatory nature of social media such as Twitter might support more grassroots PD. To better understand Twitter’s role in education, we conducted a survey of K–16 educators regarding their use of the microblogging service for professional purposes. Respondents described multifaceted and intense use,…
“Together we are better”
In recent years, many educators have turned to professional learning networks (PLNs) to grow in their craft with peers who are more accessible online because of reduced temporal and spatial constraints. While educators have cultivated PLNs, there is a dearth of research about the effects of PLNs. This manuscript reports the findings of a qualitative study that investigated PLN experiences through the analysis of survey data from 732 P-12 teachers…
Enriching Professional Learning Networks
Edcamp unconferences
Edcamps are a free, voluntary, and participant-driven form of unconference professional development. This article reports on survey data gathered from 769 Edcamp participants. Beforehand, these educators indicated diverse motivations for their attendance, including anticipation of what, how, and with whom they would learn. Afterwards, respondents overwhelmingly gave high ratings to their Edcamp experiences, and expressed interest in participating…
What do U.S. and Spanish pre-service teachers think about educational and professional use of Twitter? A comparative study
A TPACK Diagnostic Tool for Teacher Education Leaders
Using Twitter in Higher Education in Spain and the USA
This article examines student and teachers’ use and perceptions of Twitter, based on a mixed-method comparative approach. Participants (N=153) were education majors who used Twitter as a part of required coursework in their programs at two universities in Spain and the United States. The theoretical background covers research on international work carried out on Twitter as well as a brief overview of the introduction of technology in two educatio…
Mobile instant messaging for professional learning
Exploitation aversion
Educators’ perspectives on the impact of Edcamp unconference professional learning
Edcamps are a voluntary, democratic form of unconference. This paper presents participants’ perceptions regarding the impact of Edcamps. Data were gathered from a survey and interviews (N=105). Participants overwhelmingly reported that Edcamp experiences caused changes in their practices and in student learning. The impacts of Edcamps were often described in terms of student engagement, experiences, and dispositions, rather than traditional measu…
Educator perceptions of district-mandated Edcamp unconferences
Spam and Educators’ Twitter Use
Teacher identity and crossing the professional-personal divide on twitter
There's no referee on social media”
Teachers on Reddit? Exploring contributions and interactions in four teaching-related subreddits
The website Reddit has received scant attention from educational researchers despite the presence of numerous teaching-related subreddits that host thousands of threaded conversations. The purpose of this study was to provide an initial comparison of discussions occurring in several different affinity spaces on Reddit. Because of the lack of relevant prior research, there was no baseline for what to expect in Reddit discussions, so all posts and …
Transformative instruction or old wine in new skins? Exploring how and why educators use HyperDocs
What should teacher educators know about technology? Perspectives and self-assessments
Psychology (34 works) · Pedagogy (28 works) · Computer Science (27 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (25 works) · Social media (24 works) · Sociology (24 works) · World Wide Web (16 works) · Mathematics education (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Online and Blended Learning (13 works)