Building a Professional Teaching Identity on Social Media: A Digital Constellation of Selves
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Description
As social media use explodes in popularity, teachers can now share resources and interact with a broad international audience of colleagues, scholars, students, and the general public. Teachers use sites such as Twitter to develop and hone their professional identities and manage others’ impressions of them and their work. This text draws on extensive research to provide guidance about teachers’ use of social media for professional development and identity formation. A conceptual framework drawing on Goffman’s Theory of the Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and research into how users interact online informed the case studies of preservice teachers’ experiences with social media. A secondary function of the book is to guide teachers through the process of conducting action research projects in their own classrooms.
ISBN
9789463007016
Publication Date
2016
Publisher
Brill (originally Sense Publishers)
City
Leiden
Keywords
Social media, Online identity, Teachers, Social aspects
Disciplines
Educational Methods | Social Media | Teacher Education and Professional Development
Recommended Citation
Davis, Janine S., "Building a Professional Teaching Identity on Social Media: A Digital Constellation of Selves" (2016). Education Faculty Books. 8.
https://scholar.umw.edu/education_books/8