Virtual Sites as Learning Spaces: Critical Issues on Languaging Research in Changing Eduscapes - Hardcover

by Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta (Editor), Giulia Messina Dahlberg (Editor), Ylva Lindberg (Editor)

This volume fills a gap in the literature between the domains of Communication Studies and Educational Sciences across physical-virtual spaces as they intersect in the 21st century. The chapters focus on "languaging" - communicative practices in the making - and its intersection with analogue and virtual learning spaces, bringing together studies that highlight the constant movement between analogue-virtual dimensions that continuously re-shape participants' identity positionings. Languaging is understood as the deployment of one or more than one language variety, modality, embodiment, etc in human meaning-making across spaces. Languaging activities are explored through a multitude of literary artefacts, genres, media, and modes produced in and across sites. The authors go beyond "best practice" approaches and instead present "how-to-explore" communicative practices for researchers, learners and teachers. This book will be of interest to readers situated in the areas of literacy, literature, bi/multilingualism, multimodality, linguistic anthropology, applied linguistics, and related fields.

Chapters 2, 5, 8 and 12 are open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

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This volume fills a gap in the literature between the domains of Communication Studies and Educational Sciences across physical-virtual spaces as they intersect in the 21st century. The chapters focus on "languaging" - communicative practices in the making - and its intersection with analogue and virtual learning spaces, bringing together studies that highlight the constant movement between analogue-virtual dimensions that continuously re-shape participants' identity positionings. Languaging is understood as the deployment of one or more than one language variety, modality, embodiment, etc in human meaning-making across spaces. Languaging activities are explored through a multitude of literary artefacts, genres, media, and modes produced in and across sites. The authors go beyond "best practice" approaches and instead present "how-to-explore" communicative practices for researchers, learners and teachers. This book will be of interest to readers situated in the areas of literacy, literature, bi/multilingualism, multimodality, linguistic anthropology, applied linguistics, and related fields.

Chapters 2, 5, 8 and 12 are open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta is Full Professor of Education with a Multidisciplinary Focus at Jönköping University, Sweden. She is the Director of the research environment LPS, Learning Practices inside and outside Schools and leads the ongoing Swedish Research Council project PAL, Participation for all?

Giulia Messina Dahlberg is Senior Lecturer in Education at the Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is the co-leader of the network-based research environment CCD, Communication, Culture and Diversity.

Ylva Lindberg is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at Jönköping University, Sweden. She is Dean of Research at the School of Education and Communication and the senior-leader of the network-based research environment CCD, Communication, Culture and Diversity.

Author Biography

Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta is Full Professor of Education with a Multidisciplinary Focus at Jönköping University, Sweden. She is the Director of the research environment LPS, Learning Practices inside and outside Schools and leads the ongoing Swedish Research Council project PAL, Participation for all?

Giulia Messina Dahlberg is Senior Lecturer in Education at the Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is the co-leader of the network-based research environment CCD, Communication, Culture and Diversity.

Ylva Lindberg is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at Jönköping University, Sweden. She is Dean of Research at the School of Education and Communication and the senior-leader of the network-based research environment CCD, Communication, Culture and Diversity.