Conference presentation
Generative Artificial Intelligence and research in teacher education: A storied account of clouds and silver linings
Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) Conference, 2025 (Perth, Australia, 02-Jul-2025–04-Jul-2025)
2025
Abstract
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is a rapidly changing space for Teacher Researchers and Teacher Educators. This paper draws together two narratives: First, a story of the challenges experienced by a Teacher Educator in a course facilitating pre-service teachers to understand and apply action research in their classrooms and, second, a story of commencing research about the opportunities afforded to teachers in using GenAI to support neurodivergent learners. Drawing on the researcher’s perspectives as a teacher educator and researcher, the clouds and silver linings of these GenAI experiences provide a basis from which to explore what it might mean to be a Teacher Educator and Researcher grappling with GenAI as a co-intelligence (Mollick, 2024).
Using Connelly and Clandinin’s (2005) “three-dimensional narrative inquiry space”, the analyses of these stories encompass the temporality of a teacher-educator-researcher’s life, acknowledge the sociality of relationships that shape reflection and professional learning, and are situated in the places of the institutional contexts in which the teaching and research occurred. Through these narratives and their analyses, novel situations are examined and shared such that the stories are not only written artefacts to be analysed, but also fundamental to reflective practice and, thus, creating more deeply connected ways of knowing. The personal alongside the professional weaves together strands from current empirical research in GenAI with the practices in teacher education responding to GenAI use at a class and institution level.
Insights and possibilities for new perspectives about GenAI as a co-intelligence are presented reflecting the growing self-awareness and professional insights generated from the narrative analysis process. The aim of this presentation is to tell these stories alongside their analyses to uncover unique insights into these experiences, the social structures in which they occurred, and the meaning-making process. Transferability of findings may then be possible where readers identify synergies with their own experiences as teacher educators and researchers.
Details
- Title
- Generative Artificial Intelligence and research in teacher education: A storied account of clouds and silver linings
- Authors
- Elizabeth Wheeley - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Conference details
- Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) Conference, 2025 (Perth, Australia, 02-Jul-2025–04-Jul-2025)
- Date published
- 2025
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991171941902621
- Output Type
- Conference presentation
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