Name
Title | ||
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That blasted facebook page: supporting trainee-teachers professional learning through social media. |
Abstract | ||
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The creation and use of a Facebook group amongst trainee-teachers in post-16 and further education on a PGCE course at a large university in the North of England was studied. The Facebook group was self-initiated and self-managed by the trainee-teachers as a means of socialisation and peer-support amongst themselves. Data was gathered through parallel interviews with a PGCE trainee and a course tutor. Interviews were semi-structured using Tuckmanu0027s stages of group development (forming, storming, norming, performing) to explore the functioning of the Facebook group throughout the duration of the PGCE course. The role of teacher-trainers in influencing professional learning within the Facebook group initiated and owned by the trainee-teachers themselves was explored using the didactical triangle as a theoretical framework. It was found that the Facebook group was highly-valued both for supporting socialisation amongst trainee-teachers and as an additional means of mediating the course content of the PGCE. Lessons can be learnt both by trainee-teachers using social media for socialisation and peer-support and by course-tutors in designing teacher-training courses that may better ameliorate the pressures and sense of alienation trainee-teachers experience during initial teacher training. |
Year | Venue | Field |
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2015 | SIGCAS Computers and Society | Peer support,Social psychology,TUTOR,Social media,Tuckman's stages of group development,Sociology,Public relations,Cyberpsychology,Pedagogy,Socialization,Professional learning community,Further education |
DocType | Volume | Issue |
Journal | 45 | 3 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 1 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martyn Edwards | 1 | 58 | 23.68 |
| Dave Darwent | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Charly Irons | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |