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Social Media (2024)
Book
Costa, C., McIlvaney, N., & Simpson, J. (Eds.). (2024). Social Media. Durham. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13961068

This book is part of a three-book collection focused on different aspects of young people’s (pre-teens) experiences with the digital world. It is also a resource for teachers, parents, mentors, and guardians in supporting conversations with and about... Read More about Social Media.

International Literacy Day: How picture books can open up discussion about social media with children (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
Costa, C. (2024). International Literacy Day: How picture books can open up discussion about social media with children

Should we ban young children from social media? Do children know the pitfalls of TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat? To coincide with the celebration of International Literacy Day, we talked to Dr Cristina Costa, from our School of Education, who has bee... Read More about International Literacy Day: How picture books can open up discussion about social media with children.

HodgeRank as a new tool to explore the structure of a social representation (2024)
Journal Article
Oliveira, L. R. N., Lunardi, J. T., Calçada, M., Pereira, A. . L., de Jesuz, D. A. F., & Costa, C. (2024). HodgeRank as a new tool to explore the structure of a social representation. Frontiers in Physics, 12, Article 23. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2024.1333727

Social representation theory is a branch of social psychology that aims to identify the framework of concepts, ideas, opinions, beliefs, or feelings shared by the individuals within a social group, regarding a social object. Two main problems arise i... Read More about HodgeRank as a new tool to explore the structure of a social representation.

Internationalising teacher education at home: developing empathy through the sense of otherness in language learning (2023)
Journal Article
Li, H., & Costa, C. (online). Internationalising teacher education at home: developing empathy through the sense of otherness in language learning. European Journal of Teacher Education, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2023.2259082

This study explored how Chinese and Scottish student-teachers from two case-study universities perceived their experiences in foreign language learning in both formal and informal contexts within their home countries, and how the status of a foreign... Read More about Internationalising teacher education at home: developing empathy through the sense of otherness in language learning.

Digital Education Colonized by Design: Curriculum Reimagined (2023)
Journal Article
Costa, C., Bhatia, P., Murphy, M., & Pereira, A. L. (2023). Digital Education Colonized by Design: Curriculum Reimagined. Education Sciences, 13(9), Article 895. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13090895

This paper enlists Paulo Freire’s work to explore the interplay between technology and pedagogy from a decolonial approach, thus stressing the importance of adopting a critical stance to the facilitation of digital education experiences. It starts by... Read More about Digital Education Colonized by Design: Curriculum Reimagined.

Digital cultural knowledge and curriculum: the experiences of international students as they moved from on-campus to on-line education during the pandemic (2023)
Journal Article
Costa, C., & Li, H. (online). Digital cultural knowledge and curriculum: the experiences of international students as they moved from on-campus to on-line education during the pandemic. Learning, Media and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2023.2218097

This paper explores how COVID-19 affected the experiences of international students enrolled to UK on-campus universities and how they made sense, navigated and lived out the on-line university as the possible educational alternative put in place dur... Read More about Digital cultural knowledge and curriculum: the experiences of international students as they moved from on-campus to on-line education during the pandemic.