Yıl:2018   Cilt: 8   Sayı: 1   Alan: Eğitim

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Münir ŞAHİN ,Mehmet ÜSTÜNER

The Opinions of School Administrators, Teachers and Parents about how Social Media Supports and Obstructs Education

The purpose of this study is to identify the opinions of school administrators, teachers and parents about the features of social media that support and obstruct education. In accordance with phenomenological research design, one of qualitative research methods, the data was collected. Content analysis was used in the analysis of the data collected with semi-structured interview questions. The work group of the study, composed of 26 school administrators and 45 teachers working in public or private secondary or high schools and 29 parents with students in these schools, determined by criterion sampling method. The criterion sampling was used to determine the work group. As the findings of the study, it was found that the opinions of school administrators, teachers and parents are categorised under two themes as “supportive features” and “obstructive features”. While the most important supportive features of social media to education are “enlightenment” and “accessing information”, the most important obstructive features are “wasting time” and “causing addiction”.

Anahtar Kelimeler: Social media, Supportive and obstructive media, School administrators, Education, Parents, Teachers


The Opinions of School Administrators, Teachers and Parents about how Social Media Supports and Obstructs Education

The purpose of this study is to identify the opinions of school administrators, teachers and parents about the features of social media that support and obstruct education. In accordance with phenomenological research design, one of qualitative research methods, the data was collected. Content analysis was used in the analysis of the data collected with semi-structured interview questions. The work group of the study, composed of 26 school administrators and 45 teachers working in public or private secondary or high schools and 29 parents with students in these schools, determined by criterion sampling method. The criterion sampling was used to determine the work group. As the findings of the study, it was found that the opinions of school administrators, teachers and parents are categorised under two themes as “supportive features” and “obstructive features”. While the most important supportive features of social media to education are “enlightenment” and “accessing information”, the most important obstructive features are “wasting time” and “causing addiction”.

Keywords: Social media, Supportive and obstructive media, School administrators, Education, Parents, Teachers


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