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"Meme"oirs of a Teacher: Critical Visual Literacy to Explore the First-Year Teacher Experience
Monday October 7, 2024 9:45am - 10:30am CDT
Park Boulevard (Aztec Student Union 1st Floor)
More than just pithy asides sent during staff meetings, memes have the potential to reflect the professional development and critical consciousness of the sender. This session examines how three first-year public school teachers used content image internet memes, also known as image macros (Author, 2023; Iloh, 2021; Milner, 2016; Schiffman, 2013) to narrate and reflect on their experiences teaching in urban public schools. Using multimodal content analysis (Serafini, 2022; Serafini & Reid, 2019) and critical visual thinking strategies (Gardner, 2017), we examine how these first year teachers both resisted and reinforced dominant narratives about early career teachers and public schools in their critical digital reflection.
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Myriama Smith-Traore

Public School Teacher, Durham Public Schools
Myriama Smith-Traore (myriama_smith-traore@dpsnc.net) is a first year English teacher in Durham Public Schools in North Carolina and recent graduate of Duke University's Master of Arts in Teaching Program. Her research interests include the connection between the presence of teachers... Read More →
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Caitlin Donovan

Assistant Director of the Masters of Arts in Teaching Program, Duke University
Caitlin M. Donovan, Ph.D. (caitlin.donovan@duke.edu) is Assistant Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Duke University.  Her research interests center on pre-service teacher preparation, memes, and critical digital literacies.
Monday October 7, 2024 9:45am - 10:30am CDT
Park Boulevard (Aztec Student Union 1st Floor)
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