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

  1. Simone Smala, University of Queensland, Australia
Wednesday, March 7 11:50 AM-12:10 PM Creekside I

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 ...