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Publication Date: 2017
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"Like" if You Support Refugees: Preservice Teachers' Sensemaking of Contested Issues in a Digitally-Mediated Multicultural Education Course
Deroo, Matthew R.; Farver, Scott D.; Dunn, Alyssa Hadley
Multicultural Education Review, v9 n3 p159-174 2017
The advent of Web 2.0 and social media have changed how individuals act and react in mediated spaces. Pre-service teachers, familiar with navigating online spaces, enter their courses with a wealth of digital experiences, understandings and ways of making meaning. This study examines how pre-service teachers in a multicultural education course communicate across digitally mediated spaces. Using discourse analysis and sensemaking theory to analyse their Facebook posts, we asked: How do White pre-service teachers discuss and make sense of issues related to immigration in a multicultural education course? Our findings revealed that participants attempted to make sense of immigrant language and culture while building new knowledge and identities as future educators at a time when public narratives about immigrants were disparaging. Further, blended learning provided a beneficial digital space for pre-service teachers' sensemaking processes. Implications are offered for research and practice.
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Social Media, Preservice Teachers, Multicultural Education, Immigration, Refugees, Second Language Learning, Professional Identity, Blended Learning, Technological Literacy, Student Attitudes, Discourse Analysis, Computer Mediated Communication, Immigrants, Teacher Education, Cultural Activities, Social Attitudes, White Students, Social Bias, Racial Bias, Qualitative Research, Grounded Theory
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