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Online Teaching and Learning: Sociocultural Perspectives
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- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date: 15 Aug. 2013
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 1441159452
- ISBN-13: 9781441159458
Book Description
The text uses sociocultural theory as its foundational stance to empirically examine the dynamics of these interactions. It seeks to understand meaning making in all of its social, linguistic and cultural complexity. Each chapter examines how it is that culturally and historically situated meanings get negotiated through social mediation in online instructional venues. It extends the ways we think and talk about online teaching and learning.
Editorial Reviews
Review
What is so appealing about this new volume edited by Carla Meskill is its willingness to engage with the complexities of learning and teaching online. Thus, broad generalizations about effectiveness and value are replaced by rigorous research studies that chart the participant experience over time and in detail, within a sociocultural view of learning. The result is a collection full of wisdom and insight reflecting the knowledge and experience of the contributors. The four parts of the book facilitate a breadth and depth of treatment that is especially effective in providing more complete descriptions of the learner experience and practical suggestions for the reflective online teacher. — Mike Levy, Professor of Second Language Studies, The University of Queensland, Australia Published On: 2013-04-11
