Overview
- Combines an empirical with a theoretical focus, presenting the results of on-going active research
- Contributes towards a nuanced understanding of sites for learning language, literacy and literature
- Offers valuable examples of how researchers, teachers and students can explore virtual spaces
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Institutional Framings and Policies
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Genre Framings
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Identity and Learning Framings
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Researching Virtual Learning Sites
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About this book
This volume fills a gap in the literature between the domains of Communication Studies and Educational Sciences across physical-virtual spaces as they intersect in the 21st century. The chapters focus on “languaging” - communicative practices in the making - and its intersection with analogue and virtual learning spaces, bringing together studies that highlight the constant movement between analogue-virtual dimensions that continuously re-shape participants' identity positionings. Languaging is understood as the deployment of one or more than one language variety, modality, embodiment, etc in human meaning-making across spaces. Languaging activities are explored through a multitude of literary artefacts, genres, media, and modes produced in and across sites. The authors go beyond “best practice” approaches and instead present “how-to-explore” communicative practices for researchers, learners and teachers. This book will be of interest to readers situated in the areas of literacy, literature, bi/multilingualism, multimodality, linguistic anthropology, applied linguistics, and related fields.
Chapters 2, 5, 8 and 12 are open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
Reviews
“As distinctions between online and offline contexts become increasingly blurred, our understandings of education and communication need refinement. This volume tackles a range of important questions about the multifaceted nature of language, literacies and learning across a range of digital-analogue contexts – from Facebook to Wikipedia. It is an empirically-rich and theoretically-varied addition to the critical literature on technology and education.” (Neil Selwyn, Monash University, Australia, and author of Is Technology Good for Education? (2016))
“This book is an important contribution to the emergent research tradition on the potential and challenges that digital language practices have for understanding, enabling and investigating learning. It highlights crucial theoretical and methodological questions that scholars need to engage with and problematizes and provides nuanced empirical analyses of digital-analogue practices, illuminating the significance and value of digitality in contemporary education.”(Sirpa Leppänen, Professor, Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
“The 13 fascinating chapters in this volume address a variety of critical didactic topics that arise with the timely conception of virtual sites as eduscapes. The chapters shed new light on the language, genres, and ideologies at play in contemporary learning. The volume will enlighten educators and learners as well as a broader public interested in learning and new media.” (Sune Auken, Leader of the Centre for Genre Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta is Full Professor of Education with a Multidisciplinary Focus at Jönköping University, Sweden. She is the Director of the research environment LPS, Learning Practices inside and outside Schools and leads the ongoing Swedish Research Council project PAL, Participation for all?
Giulia Messina Dahlberg is Senior Lecturer in Education at the Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is the co-leader of the network-based research environment CCD, Communication, Culture and Diversity.
Ylva Lindberg is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at Jönköping University, Sweden. She is Dean of Research at the School of Education and Communication and the senior-leader of the network-based research environment CCD, Communication, Culture and Diversity.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Virtual Sites as Learning Spaces
Book Subtitle: Critical Issues on Languaging Research in Changing Eduscapes
Editors: Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Giulia Messina Dahlberg, Ylva Lindberg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26929-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26928-9Published: 09 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26931-9Published: 18 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26929-6Published: 25 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVI, 412
Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations
Topics: Technology and Digital Education, Language Education, Language Teaching, Multilingualism, Research Methods in Language and Linguistics