Sites de Redes Sociais e Educação: a utilização do Facebook como possibilidade de potencialização de uma cibercidadania.

Abstract

This dissertation shows results of an investigation with a group of mostly Social Science students of Pelotas Federal University, using the Facebook Social Network in a Education Faculty discipline called Psycological Fundaments of Education. The research, which used 16 subjects among the students of that discipline, analyses in what ways the social network contribute to the students’ citizenship. As methodology was used the cartography, including empirical drawings about the subject. After they were collected and analyzed, as result it’s fairly to say that the group uses Facebook to increase citizenship, however the social network isn’t, per se, a social instrument for citizenship. The research concludes that Facebook is a potential teaching and learning toll, just because it gives to students the opportunity to increase the classroom space.