Language and Education
2012 Volume 26, Number 2
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 3
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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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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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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