The development of communication networks of pre-service teachers on a school-led and university-led programme of initial teacher education in England

Brouwer, Jasperina; Downey, Christopher; Bokhove, Christian

doi:10.1016/j.ijer.2020.101542

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“…Students reported using this GSNS to communicate in order to obtain quick feedback so that they could effectively resolve peer-to-peer queries. This idea is in line with multiple research papers on this network (Brouwer et al, 2020 ; Fuchs, 2019 ; Suárez, 2018 among others). Undoubtedly, the key aspects are its effectiveness, immediacy and cost (Fondevila, et al, 2019 ).…”

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confidence: 70%

“…With regard to pre-service teachers in their initial training, Brouwer et al ( 2020 ) evaluated the relationships between them maintained through social networks. Studying these relationships made it possible to establish a sequence in which people first seek to make friends, then establish communication between peers, and finally receive professional guidance with very positive results.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Pre-service Teachers' Use of General Social Networking Sites Linked to Current Scenarios: Nature and Characteristics

Calderón-Garrido

Fernández

2022

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Social networking sites form part of everyday life in classrooms at all educational levels. Within these, general social networking sites (GSNSs) offer pre-service teachers flexibility, versatility and the possibility of forming educational communities by connecting formal, non-formal and informal settings. This research analyses the nature, intensity, and type of pre-service teachers’ use of such for educational purposes in their initial training in order to detect the most important aspects for improvement. Possible factors shaping behaviour were gender, whether individuals belonged to universities operating online or in person, differences in the types of studies they were undertaking, and the time at which the questionnaire was administered, before or after the COVID-19 health crisis. To this end, we studied how much and with what aims these students use the most widely used GSNSs for educational purposes. To do so, we administered a questionnaire to a total of 812 students from 6 Spanish universities. The results show a preference for WhatsApp, YouTube, and Instagram. In addition, it was found that undergraduate students used them more intensively than postgraduate students. In the case of online universities, there was a greater need to cover affective and emotional aspects than in in-person universities. As in almost all areas, the situation caused by COVID-19 changed the way social networks were used. The findings also show that pre-service teachers consumed more information on social media than what they produced, which leads to a failure to fully exploit social capital and potential job or academic opportunities that could be generated through their own creations.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pre-service Teachers' Use of General Social Networking Sites Linked to Current Scenarios: Nature and Characteristics

Calderón-Garrido

Fernández

2022

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“…In the case of the study by Peña et al, (2018), students' positive perception of the use of social networks also reduced from lower years to higher ones. However, studies such as that of Brouwer et al (2020) affirm that the use of social media in the initial teacher training goes from establishing friendships to a communication network among peers seeking advice as the years of training pass.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This type of network has been chosen rather than ones specifically intended for professional or academic purposes because their non-specific character is an advantage. This is because, far from being an obstacle for these purposes, the flexibility that goes hand in hand with their general nature (Brouwer et al, 2020;Carpenter et al, 2016;Kamalodeen & Jameson-Charles, 2016;Saini & Abraham 2019;Tyrer, 2019), as well as the fact that students' habitual use of these media can lead to them using them for academic purposes, makes them very interesting and versatile. Some studies (Lantz-Andersson et al, 2018;Rensfeldt et al, 2018) conclude that researchers who use academic social media also disseminate their work and boost its profile in parallel on general networks.…”

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Educational Use of Social Media in Primary and Childhood Education Degrees at a Virtual University

Fernández¹,

Calderón-Garrido²

2022

INT J INSTRUCTION

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The use of social networks is part of people's daily lives, and university students, in their academic life, make particularly intense use of them on a daily basis for different purposes. This research analyses the nature, intensity, and type of educational use of these social media by childhood and primary pre-teachers who are pursuing their studies online in Spain. To this end, we designed and validated an ad hoc questionnaire, obtaining 268 valid responses to research the specific characteristics of students studying for degrees in early childhood education and primary education and a double degree in early childhood and primary education at a university that is exclusively online. The results show that participants habitually use a variety of social media, but they only use some of them for educational purposes. General social networks offer future teachers versatility, the possibility to develop and leverage social capital, and opportunities to connect formal, nonformal and informal settings. The most used networks were WhatsApp, YouTube and above all Facebook, a reasonably large percentage use Instagram or Pinterest, and, to a lesser extent, Skype, and a lightly under half have Twitter. With regards to how they are used for educational purposes, a majority of respondents reported using them to find classroom activities, new ideas and material that might be of use in their academic work. It was also found that students consumed more information than what they produced, such that social capital is not used in an optimal way. It is concluded that in a university that operates exclusively online, the use of social networks fulfils the function of covering affective and social needs in an optimal way.

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“…Communication has an important role in an organization, especially in school organizations (Brouwer, Downey, & Bokhove, 2020;Hillemeier, Gusic, & Bai, 2006). School is one form of formal organization in which there is a school organizational structure consisting of the Principal, Teachers, employees, and students.…”

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The Effectiveness of Interpersonal Communication on Employees at Vocational High School YPLP PGRI 1 Makassar

Sazwani

Jamaluddin

Niswaty

2020

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As human social beings in everyday life always want to relate to other humans. He wants to know the surrounding environment, even wants to know what is happening in him. This curiosity forces humans to communicate. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of interpersonal communication among employees at Vocational High School YPLP PGRI 1 Makassar. Therefore, to achieve these objectives researchers used data collection techniques with observation, questionnaires, interviews, and documentation with a population of 24 people. And the data is processed using the quantitative descriptive analysis to determine the extent of the effectiveness of interpersonal communication among employees at the Vocational High School YPLP PGRI 1 Makassar. The results of this study indicate that the Effectiveness of Interpersonal Communication among Vocational High School YPLP PGRI 1 Makassar staff with indicators namely: openness with a percentage reaching 90.83 percent, empathy with a percentage reaching 90.56 percent, supportiveness with a percentage of 83.13 percent, positiveness with a percentage reaching 89.44 percent and equality with a percentage reaching 92.08 percent of all the indicators are in the very good category. This is demonstrated through overall data analysis which shows the percentage reached 89.08 percent, the value is in line with related observations made by researchers in the field.

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The development of communication networks of pre-service teachers on a school-led and university-led programme of initial teacher education in England

Abstract: The development of communication networks of pre-service teachers on a school-led and university-led programme of initial teacher education in England Brouwer, Jasperina; Downey, Christopher; Bokhove, Christian

Cited by 13 publications

References 52 publications

Pre-service Teachers' Use of General Social Networking Sites Linked to Current Scenarios: Nature and Characteristics

Pre-service Teachers' Use of General Social Networking Sites Linked to Current Scenarios: Nature and Characteristics

Educational Use of Social Media in Primary and Childhood Education Degrees at a Virtual University

The Effectiveness of Interpersonal Communication on Employees at Vocational High School YPLP PGRI 1 Makassar

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