The role of media in teacher's leadership roles and teaching practices.

摘要

Teacher identity, specifically teacher leadership roles, can be expressed through their teaching philosophies and methodologies. An analysis of teachers' personal media habits, including media preference, usage and frequency, will be examined to explore the relationship between media use and teaching identity. While teachers are trained to present subject matter in an objective, professional manner, the emotional and personal aspect of some media coverage could be too strong to ignore in day-to-day interactions. Teachers' media usage and how they interpret media messages may provide clues to how media contribute to their identity forming and teaching practices.; Through media, meanings are not only produced but shared and represented through personal expressions, including emotions, and other cultural artifacts. For many people, meanings are simply there, unquestioned and often taken for granted. Few people rarely consider how meanings are constructed and eventually shared. But meanings do not just exist---they are actively made as people encounter and think about the world, and then try to find ways to tell others what they are thinking. Media act as a resource in introducing and reporting on local and world issues and events. Interpretations of media text often contribute in the construction of meaning, thus through communication, interpretations of meaning are shared with one another. Teachers' positions enable them to communicate with multiple individuals in various settings. Through their communication and interaction with others, teachers' interpretations of meanings are shared. Exposure to media contributes to the active process of constructing meanings, meanings which teachers' continually interpret and express through their actions. No matter how pervasive particular aspects of a shared social or professional culture may be or how well individuals are socialized into it, the attitudes and practices of each teacher are rooted in their ways of perceiving and interpreting the world.