All is fish that comes to the net: the curriculum in the context of social networks

Abstract

This study investigated how teachers and students use the Facebook social networking tool and how it affects the teacher-student and the within and outside of school relationships. The article explores the contemporary society’s concepts of curriculum and it conceives curriculum as a set of knowledge that transcends the space-time of a classroom using communication devices that facilitate the construction of an interrelating knowledge curriculum. The results of this work reinforce: a) The daily life as a source of learning and knowledge construction; b) the practices instituted by practitioners that modify rules, create and reinvent ways of acting collectively and c) Facebook as educational networking tool, i.e., multifaceted learning space.