Using mobile phones as placed resources for literacy learning in a remote Indigenous community in Australia

Using mobile phones as placed resources for literacy learning in a remote Indigenous community in Australia

Auld, Glenn, Snyder, Ilana and Henderson, Michael 2012, Using mobile phones as placed resources for literacy learning in a remote Indigenous community in Australia, Language and education, vol. 26, no. 4, Special Issue : Digital literacies, pp. 279-296.

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Title	Using mobile phones as placed resources for literacy learning in a remote Indigenous community in Australia
Author(s)	Auld, Glenn Snyder, Ilana Henderson, Michael
Journal name	Language and education
Volume number	26
Issue number	4
Season	Special Issue : Digital literacies
Start page	279
End page	296
Total pages	18
Publisher	Routlegde
Place of publication	Abingdon, England
Publication date	2012-07
ISSN	0950-0782 1747-7581
Keyword(s)	remote Indigenous Australian education placed resources learning mobile phones digital literacies literacy education
Summary	Despite massive funding from the Australian government, the literacy achievement of Australian Indigenous children remains significantly lower than for non-Indigenous. With the aim of identifying innovative ways to improve Indigenous children's literacy achievement, this study explored the social practices surrounding everyday mobile phone use by Indigenous people in a remote Australian community. Informed by the notion of ‘placed resources’, which highlights the understanding that digital literacies are best considered as resources situated by social practices that have local effect, the study surveyed 95 people living in a remote Indigenous community about their mobile phone practices. The study also examined a video of a literacy event between a mother and her child around the use of a mobile phone. The findings revealed the strong relational aspects of phone use in remote communities. Integral to the concept of placed resources is a respect for the practices communities find important as they adopt artefacts for their everyday communication.
Language	eng
Field of Research	130301 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
Socio Economic Objective	970110 Expanding Knowledge in Technology
HERDC Research category	C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30046601

Document type:	Journal Article
Collections:	Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education

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Created:	Tue, 07 Aug 2012, 09:55:30 EST by Glenn Auld

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