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ERIC Number: ED640456
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 140
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: 979-8-3808-5622-5
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The Voice of Community: Nurturing Personal and Professional Communities on Voxer among AP Literature Teachers during the Pandemic
Tia Miller
ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Marshall University
The COVID-19 pandemic interrupted education around the world. During that time, teachers often turned to online communities to compensate for an inability to connect with in-person professional communities. This study aims to highlight a single, successful online community of AP Literature teachers who use the app Voxer to communicate. The purpose of this project was to provide insight into how this group creates personal and professional community, and how they specifically did so during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data for this ethnography was collected from the group's posts on the Voxer app from March 11, 2020 to June 30, 2021. Semi-structured interviews were also conducted with nine of the active members of the group between November 2022 and January 2023. Reasons for the success of the group as a personal community include a high level of voluntary self-disclosure, community ritual, and shared experiences. Reasons for the success of the group as a professional community include respect for the collective expertise of the members and their willingness to share resources and ideas freely. The group was successful navigating the pandemic because they already had an established community that was able to shift to supporting its members' unique needs for resources but also emotional support during the crisis. For the professional community and the community as it dealt with the pandemic, the group's geographical distance from each other was found to be an advantage. The findings of this study indicate a need for teachers to find and/or establish a strong community, preferably with an online component, before the next crisis hits. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
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Language: English
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