The benefits and pitfalls of social media for teachers’ agency and wellbeing

The authors investigated the benefits and pitfalls of social media use for schoolteachers. included opportunities teacher agency, a resource wellbeing, an efficacious communications marketing tool schools. However, along with these were associated including challenges to esteem threats authenticity in profession. This study employs hermeneutic phenomenology, investigating teachers’ lived experiences world media, generates theory around how teachers make meaning contexts. A key finding this is desires be professional community outside their employment system. Teachers actively exert agency identity on platforms help support each other. In way, shaped by used as good.