Social Media and its Potential Impacts on Multicultural Education in Turkey

Fadime Koc-Damgaci; Hasan Aydin

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Fadime Koc-Damgaci ¹, Hasan Aydin ² ^*

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¹ Yildiz Teknik Universitesi, İstanbul, TURKEY² Florida Gulf Coast University, Florida, U.S.A.^* Corresponding Author

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The purpose of this study is to learn the perceptions of social media users regarding multicultural education in Turkey. With this goal in mind, a short film was created that summarized the issue of multicultural education, which was shared via social media. After viewing the film, the views of the participants who had expressed comments concerning multicultural education were taken for evaluation, and 95.65% of participants harbored positive perceptions about multicultural education. Furthermore, the collected data were analyzed employing a thematic analytical method. The themes found were: alienation, social justice and equality, empathy and tolerance and cultural diversity and difference. On examining the results, it emerged that participants thought that, because multicultural education, discrimination, injustice and alienation would disappear and increased empathy, tolerance and justice would emerge.

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multiculturalism
multicultural education
diversity
tolerance
social media
Turkey

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 14, Issue 3, March 2018, 797-810

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Koc-Damgaci F, Aydin H. Social Media and its Potential Impacts on Multicultural Education in Turkey. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2018;14(3):797-810. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/80945

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Koc-Damgaci, Fadime, and Hasan Aydin. "Social Media and its Potential Impacts on Multicultural Education in Turkey". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2018 14 no. 3 (2018): 797-810. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/80945

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Koc-Damgaci, F., and Aydin, H. (2018). Social Media and its Potential Impacts on Multicultural Education in Turkey. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 14(3), pp. 797-810. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/80945

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Koc-Damgaci, Fadime et al. "Social Media and its Potential Impacts on Multicultural Education in Turkey". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 14, no. 3, 2018, pp. 797-810. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/80945