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Charania, Amina; Cross, Simon; Wolfenden, Freda; Sen, Sohini and Adinolfi, Lina
(2024).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2024.100227
Abstract
Recent years have seen a significant increase in professional development opportunities to support teachers in enhancing their digital skills in India. However, to date, there is little evidence that teachers are confidently harnessing digital technologies within their classrooms. We suggest that this may be explained by insufficient attention on how teachers’ participation in TPACK-focused teacher professional development (TPD) programmes is mediated by their values, prior experiences and positioning within society. To explore this, we examined government upper primary and secondary school teachers’ experiences of participating in a course entitled ‘Constructivist teaching and learning with technology within the TPACK framework’ (CTLT), which was offered to over 500 teachers in 23 districts in the Indian state of Assam. Based on the survey responses of 209 (pre course) and 109 (post-course) teachers, the findings of the study indicated that, contrary to expectations and much current scholarship, the female teachers significantly outperformed the male teachers in terms of course completion. However, the teachers who undertook the survey in English performed better than those who did so in Assamese. This paper explores possible reasons for these outcomes while recommending the need to take teacher characteristics into account when designing and implementing inclusive large-scale TPD programmes for TPACK
Plain Language Summary
This paper reports on the experiences of teachers from Assam in a TPACK focussed professional development course. The research found that female teachers did better than male teachers in the course; this was not expected. The paper explores possible reasons for this finding and how the finding can inform future professional development courses for teachers.
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