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Material Culture & Pre-Service Teacher Identity Development

The issue we are investigating is the nature of pre-service teacher (PST) self-identity, which is an essential component in teacher preparation (and ultimately in-service practice) in order that students develop a strong sense of self-awareness and self efficacy— the potential to be a valued member of the education community and have a satisfying career. Thus we endeavour to prompt in students their personal inquiries into the question: Who is the self that teaches? Our project examines those inquiries, with particular attention to students’ capacities for reflection upon, and articulation of, their evolving self-identities in relation to their chosen profession. Our strategy is to use material culture as the vehicle for investigation.

Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
2014-2017

Team: 
Dr. Boyd White: McGill University (PI)
Dr. Pauline Sameshima: Lakehead University
​Dr. Anita Sinner: Concordia University
See:

Sameshima, P., White, B., & Sinner, A., (Eds.). (2019). Ma: Materiality in teaching and learning. Peter Lang.

Stock, R. V., Sameshima, P., & *Slingerland, D. (2016, July). Constructing pre-service teacher identities through processes of parallax. Special Issue: Artful inquiry: Transforming understanding through creative engagement. LEARNing Landscapes, 9(2), 489-512.

White, B., Sameshima, P., & Sinner, A. (2015, May). Making identity: Perspectives on personal inquiry in teacher education. In S. Schonmann (Ed.), The wisdom of the many: Key issues in arts education, International Yearbook for Research in arts education (Volume 3, pp. 395-399). Münster, Germany: Waxmann.

Models wearing data translations created by Dayna Slingerland, Varainja Stock, and Pauline Sameshima
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​Knowledge Mobilization:  Window display at Urban Infill, Thunder Bay Art Exhibition 
    © 2022 Pauline Sameshima 
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