Wednesday, March 7
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Creekside I

Using Facebook to Engage Students With Social Justice Concepts in Teacher Education

Brief Paper ID: 35122
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    Simone Smala
    University of Queensland

Abstract: This paper presents a work-in-progress that describes and analyses how a Facebook page for a large introductory education class can re-focus attention and engage students with new social justice concepts through active learning strategies utilizing interactive Facebook tools. A Facebook page was purposefully created and offered to 231 teacher education students in an introductory education course in 2011 and used as the access point for latest information, e.g. web newspaper articles, current affairs TV programs, comedy shows and other media , that involved social justice in education topics. Links to ‘just out’ texts were uploaded several times each week during semester which led to an immediacy of different sources and discourses in support of the courses’ focus on social justice in education issues.

Presider: Chris Campbell, Griffith University

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