Secondary socialization into student radio. In searching for second home?

Author(s):

Peter Dolník(presenting / submitting)

Conference:

ECER 2013

Network:

21. Emerging Researchers' Group (for presentation at Emerging Researchers' Conference)

Format:

Paper

Session Information

ERG SES D 13, Professional Development and Identity

Paper Session

Time:

2013-09-09

13:30-15:00

Room:

B-202

Chair:

Gulay Dalgic

Contribution

This paper intends to describe how the individual socializes into the group. Socialization is running through social learning. My definition of learning is social – not static, but embedded in daily lives. Members of the student radio learn two kinds of skills: direct – operating the radio, and indirect - soft skills through learning situations. These have a crucial role in life of young adults: building self-confidence, how to obey the authorities, how to cope with responsibility etc.

Radio offers them safe place where they create, test and exchange roles, rules, through training and experimentation without being aware of failing or punishment. The result of their socialization, the reason to stay is that they build here a safe place where they can make experimentations, trial and errors, they want to build their own environment with own rules, their second home.

Miles(2002) claims that such organizations don´t offer utopic space for identity construction, they rather offer safe space where young adults can find themselves.

Method

Paper is based on the empirical research - qualitative case study of student radio. The data were collected by participant observations and non-formal interviews with participants.

Expected Outcomes

My intention is to describe and analyze what newcomer needs to learn to become socialized enough into the student radio. By these five steps of social learning s/he acquires radio skills, then the social norms and then the radio identity. 1, initial training for radio practice 2, impulsive learning – solving problems, reacting to unusual situations 3, learning controlled by feedback 4, learning to influence life in radio 5, searching the role and identity Socialization helps them to give meaning and sense to their activities here. Participants are meeting on a regular basis. These regular meetings brings them closer together, enable to create friendships and also unique environment for cooperation and learning. Participants create emotional bonds to the organization by the process of socialization. Emotional bonds make their work enjoyable and more effective. One needs to have sense, to be satisfied with his role in the group to provide good work. The main aim of the radio is to create atmosphere for cooperation and good environment for broadcasting. The confidence in organization, in their second home enables their members to experiment and learn more about themselves. I expect that these findings can be used in similar organizations.

References

BUCKINGHAM, D.(2008). Youth, identity, digital media, edited by D.Buckingham, The MIT press CORNWALL, A. JEWKES R. (1995) What is participatory research. Social sciences in medicine vol 41, no. 12 p. 1667-1677. Elsever science limited ISBN 0277 - 9536 955950 JEFFS, T., SMITH, M.K.. (2005). Informal education: conversation, democracy and learning. (3 Ed.). Nottingham: Educational Heretics Press. MILES, S., et. al (2002). ´Communities of youth : cultural practice and informal learning´ Aldershot : Ashgate SOEP, E., CHÁVEZ, V.(2005). 'Youth Radio and the Pedagogy of Collegiality'. Harvard Educational Review, 75 (4), 27 SOBERS, S., N. (2010) Beyond project: An ethnographic study in communiy media education, University of West England, Bristol

Author Information

Peter Dolník (presenting / submitting)

Masaryk University

Department of Educational sciences,

Brno

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