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FACEBOOK AS A TOOL FOR STUDENTS TO COMMUNICATE WITH THEIR TEACHERS

Mateusz Muchacki

Abstract

Creating good relations between teacher and their student determines the student's well-being at school. Many Polish researchers tried to identify the relations between students and teachers (?nie?y?ski 1990, Dylak 1995, ?cis?owska 2000, Brzezi?ska and Rycielska 2009, Szempruch 2012). The development of new technologies in recent years has contributed to the trend of moving communication to cyberspace. In this context, there is a positive impact of social networking in teacher contacts with students (Py?alski, 2012, Strykowska 2012, Muchacki 2013). The aim of the research was to find the ways of teachers' perception on Facebook by 16- and 19-year-old students. Research questions concerned the relationship between the age and gender of students with their interest in teaching profiles on Facebook; frequency and subject matter, which is the reason why students communicate with their teachers and the level of critical judgments about their teachers. It was examined whether Facebook, in the opinions of students, increases the effectiveness of individual teaching, how much it facilitates communication and breaks the isolation between the student and the teacher. The method used in the research was diagnostic survey (author's questionnaire for students). A total of 240 students were examined. The results showed a relatively small number of students interested in the profiles of their teachers on Facebook. 19-year-old students have teachers between their friends more often than 16-year-old students. They also exchange their remarks more often about their teachers. Students' opinions about teachers are characterized by objectivity. In both studied groups of young people, women are more likely to contact their teachers. Most often these contacts concern educational problems, they are rarely related to communication connected to out-of-school interests or educational issues. The conclusions from the research allow to state the need for teacher training in the field of using Facebook in didactic and educational work, but also to communicate in terms of their passions and interests as a factor supporting students in their personal development.

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DOI resolver: doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2018/3.5/S13.036

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