'I wanna go in the phone': literacy acquisition, informal learning processes, 'voice' and mobile phone appropriation in a South African township

Ethnography and Education

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 111-126

  Velghe, Fie ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

communities of practice; informal learning; literacy acquisition; mobile phones; voice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890893744     PISSN: 17457823     EISSN: 17457831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17457823.2013.836456     Document Type: Article

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