Appropriation of mobile cultural resources for learning

Pachler, Norbert; Cook, John; Bachmair, Ben

Abstract

Copyright © 2010 IGI Global. This article proposes appropriation as the key for the recognition of mobile devices - as well as the artefacts accessed through, and produced with them - as cultural resources across different cultural practices of use, in everyday life and formal education. The article analyses the interrelationship of users of mobile devices with the structures, agency and practices of, and in relation to what the authors call the "mobile complex". Two examples are presented and some curricular options for the assimilation of mobile devices into settings of formal learning are discussed. Also, a typology of appropriation is presented that serves as an explanatory, analytical frame and starting point for a discussion about attendant issues.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2010
• Deposit Date: Oct 26, 2012
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 12, 2016
• Journal: International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning
• Print ISSN: 1941-8647
• Electronic ISSN: 1941-8655
• Publisher: IGI Global
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-21
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4018/jmbl.2010010101
• Keywords: mobile, appropriation
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/987398
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jmbl.2010010101
• Contract Date: Feb 12, 2016