Relationships between teachers` pedagogical beliefs, subject cultures, and mediation practices of students' use of digital technology
Vol.9,No.1(2015)
Special issue: Mediation of Children´s ICT Usage
teachers as mediating agents; teachers` beliefs; subject cultures; digital technology; teachers` practices.
Agnese Karaseva
Agnese Karaseva is a PhD student at the University of Tartu and lecturer at Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences in Latvia. Her dissertation topic is on the digital literacy of secondary school teachers.
Andra Siibak
Andra Siibak, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow of Media Studies in the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Tartu. Her present research interests deal with new media audiences, generations and intergenerational relations on social media, mediation of children's ICT use and privacy on social media. Her articles have appeared in Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Cyberpsychology, Northern Lights, Journal of Nordic Digital Literacies, Young, etc.
Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt is a professor in media studies at the University of Tartu, Institute of Social Studies and a part-time researcher at Estonian National Museum. Her interests are related to the internet and social media privacy, internet user typologies, user-friendly online spaces. She is part of the management team for the ERCREA European Media and communication training programme and chair of the Audience and Reception Studies Section of ECREA. Her publications include articles in First Monday, Journal of Baltic Studies, Journal of Computer Mediated Computation and several chapters in edited volumes.
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