Learning in Third Space

Learning in 3rd spaceProf. II Reijo Kupiainen

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Third spaceThe idea of third space comes from hybridity theory (Homi Bhabha), which refers to to mixture, posits that people draw on multiple resources or funds to make a sense of the world and constitute their identity.

Originally hybridity is a cross between two separate cultures: not diversity but hybridity

Cultural hybridity is a in-between place, which brings together contradictory knowledges, practices, and discourses: signs can be appropriated, translated, rehistoricized, and read anew (c.f. remixing culture)

”Third Space theory”(Pahl & Rowsell 2005, Literacy and Education)

HOME Popularculture

Multimodaltexts

SCHOOL Writing,

speaking andlisteningliteracy

THIRD SPACE Drawing and

writing using homeand school literacy

Out-of-school literacies School literacies

- Inclusion, bridging, hybridity

Home School

Out-of-school practices

Curriculum-based practices

Peer-based education

Teacher-centered education

Home School

Vernacular literacies

Institutional literacies

Outside the domain of power, ”in the streets”

Control over people’s literacy practices

Common in private spheres

Common in public spheres

Mary Hamilton (2000), Sustainable literacies and the ecology of lifelong learning.

Home Heterotopos School

Rejection of binaries

Michel Foucault (1967). On other spaces. http://foucault.info/documents/heteroTopia/foucault.heteroTopia.en.html

- heterotopias: places that are ambivalent and uncertain, either because they are new and as-yet unknown or because they are impossible archaic representations of former modes of social order that have become obsolete. (Kevin Hetherington (1997). The badlands of modernity: Heterotopia and social ordering)

Alternative social orders

TacticsAlthough, for example, the school space is controlled, it is not absolutely dominated. As Ian Buchanan (1993, para. 21) wrote, controlled space is “reactive rather than active. It is subject to appropriation: its disciplined/dominated spaces... can always be made smooth by their occupants by the act of occupancy itself.” This “occupancy” is tactic. De Certeau (1984) spoke about everyday resistance, in which people undermine imposed power relations.!

Kupiainen, R. 2013, Media and Digital Literacies in Secondary School, p. 21

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Rejection of binariesPhysical Augmented Virtual

Rejection of binariesPrivate Networked

publicsPublic

- Networked publics are spaces that are constructed through networked technologies and collective spaces that emerge from the intersection of people, technology, and practice (danah boyd (2011). Social network sites as networked publics: Affordances, dynamics, and implications. In Z. Papacharissi, (Ed.) A Networked self: Identity, community, and culture on social network sites)

Third-space learningCreating new learning spaces in education

Learning in hybrid, networked, bridged (between lifeworld and schooling), dynamic, multimodal, and open time-space.

”Learning in the context of everyday experiences of participation in the world”

Problems”Knowmad society” (knowledge + nomad) (Besselink, de Bree, Cobo, Hart et al., Knowmad Society)

Connected with everybody, everywhere, anytime

Lifelong learning = ”life imprisonment learning”

Flexible workers in the new economy

Technological determinism

LinksSugata Mitra http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_build_a_school_in_the_cloud.html

12 Principles on mobile learninghttp://www.teachthought.com/technology/12-principles-of-mobile-learning/

Google Goggles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhgfz0zPmH4

QR codes at school http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayW032sKtj8

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