Mobile Learning Communities: Creating New Educational Futures

by Danaher; Patrick Alan

• ISBN13: 9780415991599
• ISBN10: 0415991595
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-06-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Mobile Learning Communities explores the diverse ways in which traveling groups experience learning "on the run", bringing together for the first time mobilities and learning communities into a single and comprehensive focus.

Author Biography

Patrick Alan Danaher (BEd, BA, BA(Hons), GradDip TertiaryEd, MLitt, PhD) is Associate Professor in Education (Education Research) in the Faculty of Education at the Toowoomba campus of the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Beverley Moriarty (DipTeach, BEd, MEd, PhD, AMusA) is Senior Lecturer in the School of Teacher Education at the Dubbo campus of Charles Sturt University, Australia. Geoff Danaher (BA(Hons), DipEd, PhD) is a Lecturer in Learning Support and the Skills for Tertiary Education Preparatory Studies program in the Division of Teaching and Learning Services at the Rockhampton campus of CQUniversity, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
List of Acronyms	p. xiii
Introduction: Mobile Learning Communities	p. 1
Networks and Partnerships	p. 19
Lifelong Learning: From the Cradle to the Grave	p. 39
Technologies and Their Users	p. 57
Globalization and Interactions with the Outside World	p. 75
The Knowledge Economy and Workplace Learning	p. 87
Multiliteracies and Meaning-Making	p. 107
Communities at Risk: Building Capacities for Sustainability	p. 127
Marginalization and Transformation	p. 147
Conclusion: Creating New Educational Futures	p. 171
Glossary of Terms	p. 185
References	p. 189
Index	p. 203
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