Jeffrey Carpenter, associate professor of education and director of the Teaching Fellows program, Scott Morrison, associate professor of education, Madeline Craft, Elementary Education '20, and Michalene Lee, Middle Grades Education '20, published the article in the peer-reviewed journal Teaching and Teacher Education.
Jeffrey Carpenter, associate professor of education and director of the Teaching Fellows program, Scott Morrison, associate professor of education, elementary education major Madeline Craft ’20 and middle-grades education major Michalene Lee ’20 have co-authored an article in the peer-reviewed journal Teaching and Teacher Education.
The article, titled “How and why are educators using Instagram?” is available online here. The article came out of Craft and Lee’s undergraduate research that they conducted as part of their participation in the Elon University Teaching Fellows program.
The abstract reads as follows:
Social media are commonplace in many educators’ lives, but their Instagram activities have received no prior attention in the empirical literature. We therefore created and disseminated a survey regarding educators’ Instagram use. Analyses of 841 responses suggested participants were generally intensive users of Instagram who engaged in the exchange of both professional knowledge and wisdom, as well as affective support. In addition to identifying benefits to Instagram use, some participants offered critiques of Instagram’s professional utility. We discuss the implications of these findings for educators’ work in a digital era and the future of research on educators’ social media activities.
The article reference is: Carpenter, J. P., Morrison, S. A., Craft, M., & Lee, M. (2020). How and why are educators using Instagram? Teaching and Teacher Education, 96, 103149.