Brock Education Journal

• Table of Contents

Editorial

• Broadening Conceptions of Educational Research

  Trevor Norris

  1-7

Articles

• Adapting Mathematics Curriculum Making Lessons learned from/with elementary preservice teachers for curriculum research

  Evan Throop Robinson, Lori McKee

  8-31

  This paper offers insights into how mathematics education researchers can learn from preservice teachers (PSTs) by building upon parallels between adapting curriculum making and designing research. The pandemic created learning opportunities for PSTs to anticipate mathematics curriculum anew and obstacles for researchers to study their pedagogical processes. How PSTs adapted designs to include new contexts (home environment, parental/guardian involvement, materials) parallels how curriculum researchers might become more tentative, responsive, and adaptable to unforeseen circumstances.

• Digital Literacy and Moral Values in the Digital Environments: Secondary Students' Perceptions

  Ertan Altınsoy, Serkan Boyraz

  32-54

  There is an inevitable trend that directs not only social but also educational practices into digital world, and this trend should be examined in detail to recognize its effects on students. Keeping in mind this situation, this research examines secondary school students’ perceptions of moral values in the digital environments (MVDE) and digital literacy (DL) through various variables. The research employs quantitative method and correlational survey design by reaching a total of 250 participants. The results show that participants’ perceptions of DL are mostly high while their perception of MVDE are mostly at intermediate level. Gender is not a source of significant difference in terms of either DL or MVDE. While grade is not a variable effecting DL, it has been found out that lower grades have statistically significant higher values in terms of MVDE. Those who use social media have significantly higher DL scores while the difference in MVDE is not significant in terms of the same variable. Online gaming, just like gender, is not a source of significant difference in terms of both DL and MVDE. Daily online time is not related to a significant difference in DL; however, those who are online more than three hours daily have significantly lower MVDE than those with less amount of online time. Finally, MVDE and DL are positively correlated at a moderate level and MVDE explains 19,6% of DL according to the results. To conclude, it should be encouraged for the citizens of a digital world to have higher MVDE as it would help them to be “better” in such a world, just like the moral values in real life that turns people into more desirable acquaintances.

• Results of an action research to support the cultural competence of teachers and artists with aesthetic education

  Marie-Christine Beaudry, Marika Crête-Reizes, Isabelle Carignan, Myriam Lemonchois

  55-70

  One of the two primary skills that are expected of teachers in Quebec is to act as cultural facilitators. This skill is also required for artists who work with teachers and students in cultural activities. However, many teachers and artists feel incompetent in this area. To address this issue, an action research project was conducted to provide aesthetic education to teachers and artists in order to develop their skills in cultural mediation. The study involved eight participants, including two teachers and six artists, and aimed to explore how aesthetic education could enhance their professional practice. We gathered data from semi-structured interviews, meeting minutes, logbooks, and activities created by the participants. A qualitative interpretive approach was applied to analyze the collected data. The findings indicate that aesthetic education confirmed and improved their existing practice. They also emphasized the importance of providing experimentation opportunities, time, and guidance to support the cultural competence of both teachers and artists.

• Foregrounding Anishinaabek Culture and Collaborating with Children in their Multimodal Text Creation

  Nazila Eisazadeh, Sudhashree Girmohanta , Shelley Stagg Peterson , Jeffrey Wood

  71-87

  In this paper we examine young Indigenous children’s text creation and identity (re)formations, and the teacher’s multimodal scaffolding within the context of a literacy event that drew on Indigenous pedagogies and traditional land-based cultural practices of their northern Canadian Anishinaabek community. Multimodal interaction analysis methods were used to examine the interplay among the children’s and the teacher’s talk, nonverbal communication modes and use of various sign-making tools in the meaning-making and identity-(re)formation processes.

• Manitoba Grade 9 Students’ Satisfaction with Life A Survey of Self-Reported Well-Being

  Thomas Falkenberg, Rebeca Heringer, Bhanu Pilli

  88-108

  Over the last fifteen years, student well-being has become of greater concern in school education in Canada and beyond. However, there is very little data available on how well Canadian students are. The study that will be reported on in this paper provides such data, specifically the province of Manitoba. Using the Satisfaction with Life Scale, the study collected data from 1587 grade 9 students on their self-assessed satisfaction with how their lives are going. The data were collected with two demographic variables: regional location of the schools the participating students attended (norther, rural, urban) and their self-declared gender. While in the study the majority of participating students were satisfied with how their lives were going, a concerning number of students were dissatisfied or extremely dissatisfied with their lives. Furthermore, the data suggest a statistically significant difference in life satisfaction between girls (lower) and boys (higher). The study did not find a statistically significant difference between life satisfaction across the three types of regional location.

Book Review

• Amplifying Whitness and Teaching as Being With

  Ying Ma

  109-113