Families, cultural resources and the digital divide : ICTs and educational (dis)advantage
- Authors: Angus, Lawrence , Snyder, Ilana , Sutherland-Smith, Wendy
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Journal of Education Vol. 47, no. 1 (2003), p. 18-39
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- Description: By concentrating on cases of family engagement with information communication technologies at a very local level, this paper tries to illustrate that issues related to 'access' and social disadvantage require extremely sophisticated and textured accounts of the multiple ways in which interrelated critical elements and various social, economic and cultural dimensions of disadvantage come into play in different contexts. Indeed, to draw a simple dichotomy between the technology haves and have-nots in local settings is not particularly generative. It may be the case that, even when people from disadvantaged backgrounds manage to gain access to technology, they remain relatively disadvantaged.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003000499
Creating learning spaces for refugees : The role of multicultural organisations in Australia
- Authors: Miralles-Lombardo, Beatriz , Miralles, Judith , Golding, Barry
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Book
- Full Text: false
- Description: Through the experiences of refugees from Bosnia, Iraq and Sudan, this research sought to explore the role multicultural community organisations play in creating important informal networks and learning spaces that connect people from refugee backgrounds to the wider Australian community. In particular, the research sought to identify how such organisations assist refugees in their learning of English language and work skills.
- Description: 2003006698