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Book SynopsisMobile Learning Communities explores the diverse ways in which traveling groups experience learning âon the runâ. This book provides empirical evidence that draws on the authorsâ 17 years of continuing research with international occupational Travelers. It engages with themes such as workplace learning, globalization, multiliteracies, and emerging technologies which impinge on the ways mobile groups make sense of themselves as learning communities. International in focus, this book deals with an issue of increasing global significance and shows the complexities of the lives and learning experiences of such mobile cultures and their strategies for earning, learning, and living, thus challenging simplistic and stereotypical images of traveling groups still found in mainstream media and popular culture.
Mobile Learning Communities brings together for the first time mobilities and learning communities into a single and comprehensive focus. It provides a detailed
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'most importantly it puts learning in its place by stressing the current conceptual bases for applying technologies' -- British Journal of Educational Technology, Vol 41, No 2, 2010
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms
Introduction: Mobile Learning Communities
1. Networks and Partnerships
2. Lifelong Learning: From the Cradle to the Grave
3. Technologies and Their Users
4. Globalization and Interactions with the Outside World
5. The Knowledge Economy and Workplace Learning
6. Multiliteracies and Meaning-Making
7. Communities at Risk: Building Capacities for Sustainability
8. Marginalization and Transformation
Conclusion: Creating New Educational Futures
Glossary of Terms
References
Index
