{"id":6264,"date":"2021-02-11T20:09:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T20:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cov19chronicles.com\/?p=6264"},"modified":"2023-04-26T16:04:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T15:04:48","slug":"lets-treat-people-like-people-bare-life-on-lesvos-for-refugees-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19chronicles.com\/lets-treat-people-like-people-bare-life-on-lesvos-for-refugees-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking the educational potential of displaced people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Mobile learning in \u2018third spaces\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This blog is based on a co-authored chapter in a book called Critical Mobile Pedagogy<\/a> that explores how mobile technologies are being harnessed to support displaced people in their learning. The chapter<\/a> considers what motivates refugees and other displaced people to pursue online and mobile learning and the associated challenges. We present examples of three organisations that offer \u2018hybrid\u2019 alternatives to non-formal and formal education for displaced people (Witthaus and Ryan, 2020). <\/p>\n\n\n\n We use the concept of the \u2018third space\u2019, a term coined by postcolonial scholar Homi Bhabha (1990) who described the \u2018first space\u2019 and the \u2018second space\u2019 as inhabited by the colonised and the coloniser respectively. In contrast, he proposes that the \u2018third space\u2019 can be imagined as a hybrid space between the two in which neither coloniser or colonised dominate. In the chapter we use the \u2018third space\u2019 concept as a lens to explore how refugees and other displaced people are using mobile technology to access learning and how mobile technologies have the potential to recalibrate power relations between educators and learners if certain values are embedded in practice. We also look at what constitutes \u2018good\u2019 hybridity (Bauhn and Fulya Tepe, 2016), and what enables learners to exercise agency in their own learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\nGill Ryan argues openness, partnership and co-creation provide the keys to unlock the educational potential of displaced people around the world using mobile technologies.<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n