Blogs and Pre-Service Teacher Education
This article calls upon the reorganisation and improvement of pre-service teachers’ programs of study to correspond to the complex challenges of the rapidly changing, information rich and technology-based society. Any barrier in transforming pre-service teachers’ education and generally teacher education programmes will have a direct impact on the effective integration of technologies in classroom practices. A great challenge of today’s educational milieu is to examine how the emerging technologies have transformed teaching and learning as well as to leverage the preparation of pre-service teachers’ program of study. The current paper aims to explore the potential of blogs as efficient learning environments for pre-service teachers. Secondly, it seeks to validate the effectiveness of a developed framework that intends to examine blogging as a problem solving process by employing a particular methodological approach. A number of 70 undergraduate students from the Department of Primary Education participated in the current research study. The paper reveals the great potential of blogging in giving voice to pre-service teachers in providing ideas and guidelines on how to design, organize and deliver effective and successful programs of study that will appropriately prepare pre-service teachers on how to integrate technology as a learning tool in their classroom practices.