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Title

Digital Practice Spaces and Clinical Practice in Teacher Preparation: Current Uses and Future Possibilities

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-22-2021

Publication Title

Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education

Volume Number

38

Issue Number

1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/21532974.2021.1997365

Abstract

This paper explores how the use of digital practice spaces (DPSs) can inform teacher preparation through a reimagining of clinical practice in teacher preparation by addressing the question: what roles might DPSs play in the ecology of apprenticeship opportunities for future educators? We leveraged AACTE’s Essential Proclamations and Tenets for Highly Effective Clinical Educator Preparation as an analytical framework to examine our own experiences using DPSs in our teacher education coursework. We discuss the alignment between these proclamations and the theoretical, conceptual, and practical underpinnings of DPSs. Finally, we consider the remaining proclamations that represent the horizons of DPSs within teacher preparation, a task we undertook as a set of informed provocations, envisioning how DPSs could be designed to support the proclamations not currently supported.

First Page

20

Last Page

32

Link Out URL

https://doi.org/10.1080/21532974.2021.1997365

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