Summary: | The aim of
this research is to determine the values that social studies teacher candidates
reflect on social media. Phenomenological design has been employed in this
study. The participants are
students studying at Program in Social Studies Education of an Education
Faculty affiliated with a state university in Turkey. Research data was
collected through semi-structured interviews conducted with 12 teacher candidates
and was analyzed via inductive analysis. Research results have shown that “respect”,
“privacy”, “objectivity”, “being patient”, and “ethics” are among the most
neglected values by individuals on the social media. On the contrary the list
of values that the participants believe that individuals reflect on social
media include “solidarity”, “respect”, “alturism”, “sensitivity”, and “love”. As
for participating teacher candidates, the values that they, themselves, generally
ignore on social media are “ethical values”, “being patient”, “objectivity”, “patriotizm”,
“being considerate”, and “sensitivity”. Again, as far as the particiapants are
concerned, “respect”, “sensitivity”, “ethical values”, “alturism”, and
“honesty” are those that they, themselves, often reflect on social media. Based
on the research results, relevant suggestions have been made about how to
reflect values on social media.
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