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Based on a recent narrative inquiry into the social media-based learning of masters level students preparing to teach across a range of professional and vocational areas, Reynolds argues that social-media based learning confers a distinctly postmodern character to the learning experience. Paranoia, fragmentation, intertextuality, metafiction, maximalism, irony and hyperreality are all apparent, echoing the typical features of postmodern literature to an uncanny degree. Education professionals embarking on adventures in online learning can make use of insights gained through examining post-modern fictions to prepare themselves and their learners for the exciting, troublesome, kaleidoscopic, ephemeral world they are about to enter. Reynolds makes the case for the use of literary approaches in the teaching of social sciences and in the pedagogy of online learning.
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Reynolds, C. (2019). Understanding Social Media Learning Through Postmodern Literature. In: Jarvis, C., Gouthro, P. (eds) Professional Education with Fiction Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17693-8_8
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