An Introduction to the CITE-ITEL Database: Access, Dialogue, and Possibility

The body of peer-reviewed research investigating literacy preservice teacher education is vast and broadcast widely in a variety of journals. What if there was a single, searchable, interactive platform where the literature was collected and synthesized? How might such a database inform research, pr...

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Published inContemporary issues in technology and teacher education Vol. 19; no. 2
Main Authors Fowler-Amato, Michelle, Hikida, Michiko, O'Neil, Erin, Taylor, Laura
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education 2019
Subjects
Bibliographic Databases
Educational Research
Literacy Education
Literature Reviews
Preservice Teacher Education
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ISSN1528-5804
1528-5804

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Summary:The body of peer-reviewed research investigating literacy preservice teacher education is vast and broadcast widely in a variety of journals. What if there was a single, searchable, interactive platform where the literature was collected and synthesized? How might such a database inform research, practice, and policy? These were the questions faculty and graduate students from a large university in the Southwestern US set out to answer in 2015. Four years later, the authors introduce CITE-ITEL, a Critical, Interactive, Transparent, and Evolving review of literature on Initial Teacher Education in Literacy, an effort toward answering these important questions. The purposes of this paper are to share the methodology guiding the development of CITE-ITEL, to review some of the initial findings from the systematic review of the literature from 2000-2018, to describe the user experience of the CITE-ITEL database, and to propose future possibilities for CITE-ITEL and similar databases.
ISSN:1528-5804
1528-5804