Student teachers' discursive voices of the meaning of digital case material for their professional learning
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This study explores student teachers’ discursive voices regarding the meaning of digital case material for their professional learning in teacher education. The analysis of the students’ reflective essays shows that future teachers hold a repertoire of positions via which they inscribe their relationship with technology. These positions are important to acknowledge since they strongly mediate the potential enabling role of digital case material for teachers’ professional growth.
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