The Case of the iPad

Mobile Literacies in Education

Alyson Simpson editor Cathy Burnett editor Guy Merchant editor Maureen Walsh editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer Verlag, Singapore

Published:12th Dec '18

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The Case of the iPad cover

This book brings together an international group of literacy studies scholars who have investigated mobile literacies in a variety of educational settings. Approaching mobility from diverse theoretical perspectives, the book makes a significant contribution to how mobile literacies, and tablets in particular, are being conceptualised in literacy research. The book focuses on tablets, and particularly the iPad, as a prime example of mobile literacies, setting this within the broader context of literacy and mobility.

The book provides inspiration and direction for future research in mobile literacies, based upon 16 chapters that investigate the relationship between tablets and literacy in diverse ways. Together they address the complex and multiple forces associated with the distribution of the technologies themselves and the texts they mediate, and consider how apps, adults and children work together as iPads enter the mesh of practices and material arrangements that constitute the institutional setting.

ISBN: 9789811351174

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 454g

271 pages

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017