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Journal article
The benefits and pitfalls of social media for teachers' agency and wellbeing
Technology, Pedagogy and Education, Vol.32(5), pp.621-637
2023
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Abstract
The authors investigated the benefits and pitfalls of social media use for schoolteachers. The benefits included opportunities for teacher agency, a resource for teacher wellbeing, and an efficacious communications and marketing tool for schools. However, along with these benefits were associated pitfalls including challenges to esteem and threats to authenticity in the profession. This study employs hermeneutic phenomenology, investigating teachers' lived experiences in the world of social media, and generates theory around how teachers make meaning in social media contexts. A key finding of this study is teachers' desires to be in a professional community outside their employment system. Teachers actively exert agency and professional identity on social media platforms to help and support each other. In this way, social media is shaped by teacher agency and used as a tool for social good.
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- Title
- The benefits and pitfalls of social media for teachers' agency and wellbeing
- Authors
- Alison Willis (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Education and Tertiary AccessPeter Grainger (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Education and Tertiary AccessCatherine Thiele (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Education and Tertiary AccessSusan Simon (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Education and Tertiary AccessStephanie Menzies (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Education and Tertiary AccessRachael Dwyer (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Publication details
- Technology, Pedagogy and Education, Vol.32(5), pp.621-637
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2023
- DOI
- 10.1080/1475939X.2023.2210585
- ISSN
- 1747-5139; 1475-939X
- Copyright note
- © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access; UniSC Fraser Coast
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99727973902621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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