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ERIC Number: EJ1306219
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-3831
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Facebook for Professional Development: Pedagogical Content Knowledge in the Centre of Teachers' Online Communities
Liljekvist, Yvonne Elisabeth; Randahl, Ann-Christin; van Bommel, Jorryt; Olin-Scheller, Christina
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, v65 n5 p723-735 2021
As teachers' informal professional development is visible in social media, this study probes teachers' participation in self-organized Facebook groups in mathematics or Swedish-language education. In total, 553 posts from six Facebook groups were categorized using Shulman's knowledge-base framework, and analysed using systemic functional grammar. Teachers use "questions" and "offers" most frequently (88%). Within these speech functions, pedagogical content knowledge dominates (63%), indicating that these groups constitute professional learning communities that teachers use as a professional development resource, focusing the interaction on pedagogical content knowledge. This study finds a largely similar practice in Facebook groups across the two subjects.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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