TEACHERS' LOUNGE ACCORDING TO THE SOCIAL SHARING SITE EKSI SOZLUK

Musa Gursel () and Ali Ünal ()
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Musa Gursel: Mevlana University
Ali Ünal: Necmettin Erbakan University Ahmet Kelesoglu Education Faculty

No 2404122, Proceedings of Teaching and Education Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: Teachers' lounge is the room where teachers spend nearly all their break times and working hours at school except for the course hours. In this lounge teachers rest, make preparations for lectures, review students' homework, assess papers and converse with their colleagues concerning personal or work-related topics. Teachers' lounge presents an environment where all teachers in the school gather and communicate. In terms of enhancing the social capital in schools, the role of a comfortable and safe teachers' lounge based on the principles of self-development and helping others, where scientific works on education are discussed, and students' problems are handled under the light of scientific problem, is significant. The things that happen in the teachers' lounge are considered important because they have the potential to affect primarily the social capital of the school, and accordingly the success of the school. The purpose of the present study is to determine how social media users perceive teachers' lounge. Data of the study were collected through document review method among qualitative research methods. The reviewed documents consists of the opinions or entries written under the topics of "teachers' lounge", "teachers' lounge conversations" and "teachers' lounge dialogs" in the social sharing site Eksi Sozluk (https://eksisozluk.com/). Collected data were subjected to contend analysis. By analyzing the data, a total of 23 codes concerning teachers' lounge were established. These codes were integrated under 6 themes. By analyzing the data, a total of 23 codes concerning teachers' lounge were established. These codes were integrated under 6 themes: market place, lounge, private spaces, socialization, Interpretation and Curiosity, Excitement. According to the entries made in the Eksi Sozluk social sharing site, in its current state teachers' lounge is far from having an effect that would increase the social capital of the school. Teachers use this room mostly for recreation and conversing with each other rather than using it for professional interaction.

Keywords: Teachers' lounge; Eksi Sozluk; social capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 6 pages
Date: 2015-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ara and nep-cwa
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 1st Teaching & Education Conference, Amsterdam, Jun 2015, pages 105-110

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