Teachers Turning to Teachers

Teacherpreneurial Behaviors in Social Media

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11366147
AutoresKaitlin Torphy, Kaitlin T Torphy (Michigan State University, autor de correspondencia), Sihua Hu (0000-0001-5904-6722), Yuqing Liu (0000-0003-2417-3523, Michigan State University), Zixi Chen (0000-0001-6350-2997, Michigan State University)
Año2020
Volumen127
Número1
Páginas49-76
Fecha de publicación2020-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0195-6744 • E-ISSN: 1549-6511
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/711012
OpenAlexW3092689695
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias 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