Transforming Practice: Using Digital Video to Engage Students

Janette Hughes; Lorayne Robertson

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 10, No. 1 (March 2010) pp. 20–37

In this article the four pedagogical components outlined by the New London Group (1996)—situated practice, overt instruction, critical framing, and transformed practice—were used to focus attention on the case studies of three beginning teachers and ...

Topics: Teaching Methods, English Language Arts, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Technology, Literacy, Multimedia

Surfacing the Assumptions: Pursuing Critical Literacy and Social Justice in Preservice Teacher Education

Lorayne Robertson; Janette Hughes

Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice Vol. 22, No. 1 (2012) pp. 73–92

This paper outlines a four-year study of a preservice education course based on a socio-constructivist research framework. The preservice English Language Arts course focuses on critical literacy and teaching for social justice while employing...

The Transformative Power of Digital Literacy Stories

Janette Hughes; Lorayne Robertson

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 306–317

In this article we use the four pedagogical components outlined by the New London Group (1996) -- situated practice, overt instruction, critical framing and transformed practice -- as we focus our attention on the case studies of two beginning...