Political Education What Role, if Thesis

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Online social networks can indeed make an impact on political education by bringing a balance of power and by encouraging vigorous debate. Brookfield (2005) disagrees with this idea stating, "Before students can engage critically with ideas and actions they may need a period of assimilation and grounding in a subject area or skill set. Lecturing may be a very effective way of ensuring this." Certainly, as Brookfield suggests, students need a foundation to argue their positions effectively and to understand the validity of others' arguments.
However, Brookfield fails to understand that distance learning is capable of facilitating this groundwork plus adding a transformative social network layer for more meaningful exploratory dialogue than may be available in some traditional classrooms......

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