scholarly journals Teachers’ Organizations Responses to COVID-19 in Canada: Balancing Resistance, Rapprochement, and Renewal

2021 ◽  
pp. 28-47
Author(s):  
Pamela Osmond-Johnson ◽  
Lucrécia Fuhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Educational Change ◽  
Teacher Unions ◽  
Return To School ◽  
School Conditions ◽  
Policy Environments ◽  
Union Renewal ◽  
Internal Capacity

Teacher federations are often criticized as “roadblocks” to educational change. It is arguable, however, that their advocacy work has been paramount in securing safer return to school conditions across Canadian Educational jurisdictions. Utilizing Carter et al. (2010) framework of union responses to changing policy environments, this paper draws on publicly available documents and social media posts from March through to October of 2020 to examine the ways in which teacher unions in various Canadian contexts have responded to the issue of school reopening plans amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, the paper analyzes the extent to which Canadian teacher unions have been able to move into the realm of union renewal as a means of building internal capacity and developing external networks to strengthen their public advocacy work.

scholarly journals Digital unionism as a renewal strategy? Social media use by trade union confederations

2020 ◽  
pp. 002218562097933
Author(s):  
Bia Carneiro ◽  
Hermes Augusto Costa
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Non Union ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
Union Renewal ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Labor Institutions ◽  
The Uk

Traditional actors such as trade unions are inevitably challenged by digital technologies, not only from the perspective of labor relations, but also in relation to outreach and communications strategies. In fact, as online and offline realities become increasingly intertwined, the presence of organized labor institutions within the Internet’s current networked environment is unavoidable. This article debates digital trade unionism as a strategy for trade union renewal, particularly the implications of using social media platforms to connect and interact with a broader audience beyond the labor movement. Through a comprehensive comparative analysis of the Facebook pages of six trade union confederations from Brazil, Canada, Portugal, and the UK, we find that despite the possibilities for horizontal dialogue enabled by the new digital communication and information technologies, trade union confederations maintain an outdated ‘one-way’ model of communication, hindering opportunities to reach and engage with both union and non-union actors.

scholarly journals Researching Digital Sociality

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hany Zayed
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Educational Change ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Global South ◽  
Anthropology Of Education ◽  
Data Collection Instrument ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Digital Landscape

Digital technologies have become deeply implicated in and constitutive of contemporary social life. They are reshaping who we are and how we associate with one another, and are profoundly reconfiguring social relations, processes, and practices in a host of social spheres, particularly education. With Covid-19 further entrenching this implication and accelerating those changes, we are forced to rethink what research is and how it is done. This article presents a step towards researching a changing sociality using social media. Drawing on fieldwork on the digital transformation of Egyptian education, it argues that and showcases how WhatsApp can be systematically used as a qualitative data collection instrument to examine educational change. This article also situates WhatsApp research within digital ethnographic traditions, unpacks emergent methodological challenges and ethical quandaries, and presents potential ways to manage them. In so doing, it problematizes extant methodological categories (such as participation), entrenched dichotomies (such as private/public space), and epistemological questions (such as research temporality). Using a unique case from the Global South at an exceptional time of (educational) change, this article can help researchers as they think about their questions, design their research, conduct their fieldwork, and maneuver an elusive digital landscape. It informs broader methodological discussions within digital sociology and anthropology (of education), digital ethnography, and social media research. It also informs research in other domains like healthcare, geographies beyond the Global South, and platforms with similar affordances like Telegram.

The role of social media in sex education: Dispatches from queer, trans, and racialized communities

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aida E Manduley ◽  
Andrea Mertens ◽  
Iradele Plante ◽  
Anjum Sultana
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Sexuality Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Communication Method ◽  
Internal Capacity

Social media is a well-established communication method, but little academic literature explores the psychological and social benefits for sexuality education. Particularly for queer, trans, and racialized communities – who have been historically maligned by state-based sex education – social media has become a tool to build internal capacity and psychological well-being as well as democratize, amplify, and share experiences around sexuality. Informed by intersectionality and health literacy frameworks, this commentary provides concrete examples of how and why these communities are taking advantage of social media as a means of liberation and form of sexuality education in and of itself. We also provide practical strategies for researchers, educators, and organizations seeking to utilize the power of social media.

scholarly journals Teachers’ Organizations and Educational Reform: Resistance and Beyond

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-48
Author(s):  
Sachin Maharaj ◽  
Nina Bascia
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Educational Reform ◽  
Teacher Unions ◽  
Teacher Union ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Reform Strategies ◽  
Teacher Organizations ◽  
Union Renewal ◽  
Canadian Provinces ◽  
Government Reforms

This paper presents case studies of teacher union-government relationships in three Canadian provinces – British Columbia, Ontario, and Alberta – where teacher organizations have undertaken divergent strategic positions relative to educational reform. It identifies critical factors that may lead teacher unions to challenge government reforms, how and when a teacher organization might instead accommodate governmental reform, and under what circumstances union renewal drives an organization to establish reform strategies of its own. The paper demonstrates the results of these varied strategies and suggests that teacher unions’ stances, including when they are resistant, are rational and, arguably, necessary.

Where Social Media Meets AAC

ASHA Leader ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Social Media

Making Twitter Work For You

ASHA Leader ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists

As professionals who recognize and value the power and important of communications, audiologists and speech-language pathologists are perfectly positioned to leverage social media for public relations.

Doctors employ social media

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Jane Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media

A Lesson in Taking Social Media to the Medical Level

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (7) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
SALLY KOCH KUBETIN
Keyword(s):  
Social Media
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