Learning Ecologies in the Digital Era: A Challenge for Primary Education in Low-Income Contexts

Celia Moreno-Morilla, Fernando Guzmán-Simón and Eduardo García-Jiménez
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Celia Moreno-Morilla: Department of Research and Diagnosis Methods in Education, School of Education, University of Seville, 41013 Sevilla, Spain
Fernando Guzmán-Simón: Department of Language Education, School of Education, University of Seville, 41013 Sevilla, Spain
Eduardo García-Jiménez: Department of Research and Diagnosis Methods in Education, School of Education, University of Seville, 41013 Sevilla, Spain

Mathematics, 2021, vol. 9, issue 17, 1-14

Abstract: This research focused on the study of learning ecologies utilizing digital technology. The qualitative methodology used has allowed the analysis of the interactions children establish with digital technologies and the manner in which they construct a learning ecology. A total of 46 12-year-olds, their families, and their teachers participated in this study. The children’s schools and homes were in neighborhoods where structural situations of poverty and social and cultural marginality concurred. The children integrated researchers into their digital community, which allowed access to the events that the community was developing through digital technologies for two years. This information was complemented by the development of systematic observations and interviews with each participant. The participants’ multimodal linguistic and literacy practices were analyzed using a social semiotics approach. The results of the research describe and interpret the interactions that took place between participants and digital technologies. The research has identified the processes of recontextualization, transduction, and transcontextualization of the discourses developed in the frame of the participants’ learning ecologies. Digital ethnography has been revealed as an adequate method for studying learning ecologies.

Keywords: primary education; ethnography; literacy; learning ecology; event; digital technology; social networks; socioeconomic status (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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