Podcast Creation In/As Teacher Education and Self-Study

ABSTRACT

This article explores a collaborative teacher self-study in which two teacher educators/podcasters, inquired personally and collectively into the possibilities for podcasts in/as teacher education. Extending framings of podcasts to include more than content-transmission or replacement of previous texts or pedagogical practices, we further theorize the social, exploratory, and most importantly, (co)creative, within the process of making podcasts in/as teacher education. We wonder about how and why podcasting, informed by self-study practices, might support the articulation, questioning, returning to, and (re)inventing of professional identities within teacher education. This article-as-podcast enmeshes our findings and discussion as different ‘episodes’ to first share our methods, and then detail the concept of informality in podcasting and teacher education, and to explore the power of polyvocality. Finally, we end with some provocations for the reader – questions and wonderings about the ways in which the process of podcasting might prompt building relationality between a range of audiences to create space for teachers’ imaginings of themselves and what it means to teach.

KEYWORDS:

• Podcasts
• teacher education
• self-study
• polyvocality
• teacher identity

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

The work was supported by the University of Manitoba [Research Start-Up Funds].