Journal article
Discourses in conflict: The relationship between Gen Y pre-service teachers, digital technologies and lifelong learning
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, Vol.25(3), pp.336-350
2009
Abstract
This paper analyses Gen Y pre-service primary school teachers' conceptualisations of lifelong learning. It is situated within a context of improving the provision and delivery of pre-service teacher education. This paper argues that Gen Y's understanding of lifelong learning has been influenced by their engagements with digital technologies and that while they may have appropriated the Discourse of change in this context, it does not necessarily indicate an overall capacity for change agency. This is a concern for programs of teacher education whose mission, arguably, is to prepare future activist teaching professionals. This paper argues that higher education and teacher education programs of study need to consider the relationship between Gen Y, lifelong learning and change agency when aligning pedagogy and curriculum with the new generation of students.
Details
- Title
- Discourses in conflict: The relationship between Gen Y pre-service teachers, digital technologies and lifelong learning
- Authors
- Sharn Donnison (Author) - La Trobe University
- Publication details
- Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, Vol.25(3), pp.336-350
- Publisher
- Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (A S C I L I T E)
- Date published
- 2009
- DOI
- 10.14742/ajet.1138
- ISSN
- 1449-3098
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2009 The Authors. Reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
- Organisation Unit
- Centre for Support and Advancement of Learning and Teaching; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450295302621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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