Description
This research paper offers some preliminary research findings from a project that investigates how social media can be brought into the Politics and International Studies classroom to improve teaching on the politics of global challenges. The paper presents data from a series of focus groups across three HEIs (University of Leeds, University of Gloucestershire, Queen Mary University of London). These focus groups explored how students use social media to learn about global challenges and how they think this could be captured and explored in their formal teaching. These student groups used participatory research methods to establish the students as co-creators of knowledge. The project aims to set out ways to develop critical digital literacies in the International Studies classroom and to consider how incorporating social media in our teaching can help us achieve open critical pedagogies. This work was funded by the Teaching and Learning Small Grant
