Teachers Turning to Teachers

Teacherpreneurial Behaviors in Social Media

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11366147
AutoresKaitlin Torphy, Kaitlin T Torphy (Michigan State University, autor correspondente), Sihua Hu (0000-0001-5904-6722), Yuqing Liu (0000-0003-2417-3523, Michigan State University), Zixi Chen (0000-0001-6350-2997, Michigan State University)
Ano2020
Volume127
Fascículo1
Páginas49-76
Data de publicação2020-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0195-6744 • E-ISSN: 1549-6511
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/711012
OpenAlexW3092689695
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas43

There is growing evidence that educators engage in social media and virtual social networks across formal and informal settings to direct the trajectory of their curriculum. Interactions within and across virtual spaces provide opportunities to flatten hierarchical structures as teachers may directly or indirectly engage with educational decision making and reform implementation (e.g., Supovitz et al. 2015). This article examines an educational phenomenon, the emergence of a teacherpreneurial guild—that is, a teacher collective promoting professional practices, norms, and entrepreneurial activity—creating and defining knowledge underlying educational practices and classroom behaviors. Using a sample of Midwestern elementary teachers, this work identifies patterns of online educational resource access over 4 years across 135,000 pins shared within Pinterest, a social media platform. Results indicate teachers most often turn to one another for resources and professional materials. This may have implications for trust developed within teacherpreneurial guilds and teachers’ ability to exert agency within their profession

Agency (philosophy · Curriculum · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Phenomenon · Political science · Professional development · Public relations · Resource (disambiguation · Sample (material · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Online and Blended Learning · Psychology · Social Media and Politics