Hong Kong and Canadian students experiencing a new participatory culture: A teacher professional training project undergirded by new media literacies

Hong Kong and Canadian students experiencing a new participatory culture: A teacher professional training project undergirded by new media literacies

• Zhang, Zheng University of Western Ontario
• Li, Jia University of Ontario Institute of Technology
• Liu, Feifei Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Miao, Zhuang Chinese University of Hong Kong

Teaching and Teacher Education, 59, 146-158, 2016

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd

2016

• F Learning & Teaching
  • FD Application of Communicative Media, IT in Learning & Teaching
• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MA Professional Education for Teachers

New Media Literacies New Participatory Culture Communities of Practice Teacher Education Intercultural Competence Education Telecollaboration Online

• Hong Kong
• Canada

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

This research linked 47 Hong Kong and 35 Canadian teacher candidates in a new participatory culture project within the theoretical framework of new media literacies. This paper reports the qualitative data with quantitative descriptions of participants' social interactivity within the cross-border communities of practice. Besides the constraints of the designated online forum, findings relate that participants' engagement in the new participatory culture contributed to their knowledge- and awareness-building of harnessing online participation, new media technologies, and cultural/linguistic diversity in education. The paper concludes with implications of cultivating communities of practice buttressed by new media literacies for teacher professional development.

• English

Journal Articles

• 0742051X

• 10.1016/j.tate.2016.05.017

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/896478c8

2017-03-21