Learning to Leisure? When Social Media Becomes Educational Media


 
Language:

English

Author:

Brabazon T

Series/Journal Title:

Digital Culture & Education

Volume:

6

Issue:

2

Pages:

17

Description:

Social media sites – like Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, FourSquare and Twitter – summon a tapestry of friendship, humour and community between digitally literate citizens around the world. But the role and value of these platforms and portals for education, teaching and learning is neither self-evident nor obvious. Therefore, this article returns to a key early text in the sociology of education: Paul Willis’s Learning to Labour. Willis addressed the injustices within and beyond school. [from abstract]

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