Mobile learning communities: lessons for and from academic mobility, the knowledge economy and sustainability
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | Mobile learning communities: lessons for and from academic mobility, the knowledge economy and sustainability |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 1417 |
Book Title | Analysing the consequences of academic mobility and migration |
Authors | Danaher, Geoff (Author) and Danaher, Patrick A. (Author) |
Editors | Dervin, Fred |
Page Range | 131-146 |
Chapter Number | 7 |
Number of Pages | 16 |
Year | 2011 |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Place of Publication | Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom |
ISBN | 9781443829786 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/57799 |
Abstract | This paper’s objective is to articulate possible lessons for conceptualising and interrogating academic mobility to be learned by drawing on contemporary thinking about two key social and educational issues: the knowledge economy and sustainability. In turn, the paper also explores how current understandings of academic mobility can contribute to challenging and extending the comprehension of those issues. The theoretical framework is composed of the concepts of situated learning, systems thinking, risk and capacity building, clustered around the ways in which various groups of occupational Travellers conform to and depart from the notion of mobile learning communities (Danaher, Moriarty, & Danaher, 2009). The paper’s principal finding is twofold. Firstly, concepts associated with the knowledge economy and sustainability are helpful in extending our current understandings of the manifestations and effects of academic mobility in different contexts. In particular, those manifestations and effects demonstrate the impact of changing notions of knowledge and its intersection with economic and social life, as well as enhanced comprehension of the benefits and costs of academic mobility when evaluated against a fluid and situated view of sustainability. Secondly, constructing academic mobility through the lens of mobile learning communities adds to the depth and richness of contemporary conceptualisations of the knowledge economy and sustainability, thereby highlighting the ongoing significance of academic mobility as a growing field of scholarship. Seen from this perspective, mobile learning communities can indeed teach us valuable lessons for and from academic mobility, the knowledge economy and sustainability. |
Keywords | academic mobility, knowledge economy, learning communities, occupational Travellers, sustainability |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390399. Education systems not elsewhere classified |
390499. Specialist studies in education not elsewhere classified | |
Public Notes | Chapter 7. All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. |
Byline Affiliations | Central Queensland University |
Faculty of Education | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q14qz/mobile-learning-communities-lessons-for-and-from-academic-mobility-the-knowledge-economy-and-sustainability
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