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Finding Ways to Connect: Potential Role of Social Media in Peace Education

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Social Media as a Space for Peace Education

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This chapter explores how social media can be used to address some of the challenges to facilitating critical dialogue in a traditional classroom setting. Additional benefits include allowing time for reflection and access to multiple viewpoints, forms of expression and ways of seeing the world. In addition to its capacity for mobilization, using social media to discuss social issues facilitates understanding through digital imagery, storytelling, as well as wikis that can be used to visualize conflicting narratives and understandings of history. Without a solid critical pedagogy strengthened by critical digital literacy training, however, the integration of social media in peace education programs may only serve to exacerbate the inequalities such a curriculum would aspire to overcome.

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Fournier-Sylvester, N. (2020). Finding Ways to Connect: Potential Role of Social Media in Peace Education. In: Naseem, M.A., Arshad-Ayaz, A. (eds) Social Media as a Space for Peace Education. Palgrave Studies in Educational Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50949-1_3

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