Transnational Digital Literacies and Transitory Opportunities: A Perspective from the Global South

Dixon, Kerryn

Abstract

In the first part of this chapter, the author applies the opportunities for learning (OfL) model to her research context in Limpopo, South Africa, drawing attention to the ways in which learning, literacies, dialogic encounters, and opportunities manifested over a three-year period with a specific emphasis on Grade 5 children producing blogs for children in an American elementary school. Through this example, the author shows how the OfL model can be applied in a concrete context in the global south. In the second part of the chapter, the author reconsidered the meaning of ‘opportunity’ in the OfL model through the lens of her research project. This re-examination of the concept of ‘opportunity’ enabled the author to see the relationality of the more-than-human that comprised her research assemblage and thus provided a more complex way of understanding opportunities.

Citation

Dixon, K. (2023). Transnational Digital Literacies and Transitory Opportunities: A Perspective from the Global South. In C. Brock, B. Exley, & L.-I. Rigney (Eds.), International Perspectives on Literacies, Diversities, and Opportunities for Learning: Critical Conversations. Routledge

• Online Publication Date: Jul 10, 2023
• Publication Date: Jul 11, 2023
• Deposit Date: Mar 4, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 11, 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Book Title: International Perspectives on Literacies, Diversities, and Opportunities for Learning: Critical Conversations
• Chapter Number: 6
• ISBN: 9781032008462
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