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Language and Education

2012 Volume 26, Number 2

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Number of articles: 3

  1. Participation, Deliberate Learning and Discourses of Learning Online

    David Barton

    This paper uses a study of the photo-sharing website Flickr to examine new online spaces for writing. On this site, people write titles and descriptions for their photos, they annotate their photos... More

    pp. 139-150

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  2. Distributed Cognition in a Virtual World

    Julia Gillen, Rebecca Ferguson, Anna Peachey & Peter Twining

    Over a 13-month period, the Schome Park Programme operated the first "closed" (i.e. protected) Teen Second Life project in Europe. The project organised diverse educational events that centred on... More

    pp. 151-167

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  3. The Effects of the Literacy Policy Environment on Local Sites of Learning

    Mary Hamilton

    This paper considers the policy environment of adult literacy as a space within which sites of learning are shaped and given value. It explores the interplay between international, national and... More

    pp. 169-182

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