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One Tablet, Multiple Epistemic Instruments in the Everyday Classroom

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Abstract

Grounded in the analyses of 23 semi-structured interviews and 31 field notes from classroom observations, this study scrutinizes the relationships that teachers and learners entertain with/through the tablet in their process of technology appropriation in the classroom. The results reveal that, on the one hand, the learners elaborate a variety of instruments from their interactions with the tablet and, on the other hand, that the teachers’ appropriation plays a central role in configuring a creative, critical and participatory pedagogy in the contemporary classroom.

Keywords

Appropriation Instrumental genesis Tablets School classrooms Teaching practices Learning activities 
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Acknowledgments

We thank the teachers, learners and school principals who participated in the study and we are grateful to the Swedish Research Council for funding this research.

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  1. 1.Stockholm UniversityStockholmSweden

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