Information and Learning Sciences: Volume 123 Issue 11/12

Representational scaffolding in digital simulations – learning professional practices in higher education

Frank Fischer, Elisabeth Bauer, Tina Seidel, Ralf Schmidmaier, Anika Radkowitsch, Birgit J. Neuhaus, Sarah I. Hofer, Daniel Sommerhoff, Stefan Ufer, Jochen Kuhn, Stefan Küchemann, Michael Sailer, Jenna Koenen, Martin Gartmeier, Pascal Berberat, Anne Frenzel, Nicole Heitzmann, Doris Holzberger, Jürgen Pfeffer, Doris Lewalter, Frank Niklas, Bernhard Schmidt-Hertha, Mario Gollwitzer, Andreas Vorholzer, Olga Chernikova, Christian Schons, Amadeus J. Pickal, Maria Bannert, Tilman Michaeli, Matthias Stadler, Martin R. Fischer

To advance the learning of professional practices in teacher education and medical education, this conceptual paper aims to introduce the idea of representational scaffolding for…

Experiences of the Ukrainian adolescents during the Russia-Ukraine 2022 War

Irene Lopatovska, Kirtika Arora, Flita Veleny Fernandes, Anjali Rao, Simona Sivkoff-Livneh, Brianna Stamm

The study aims to explore the current experiences of Ukrainian adolescents affected by the Russia-Ukraine war. The study focused on the changes in adolescents’ lives caused by the…

#BookTokMadeMeReadIt: young adult reading communities across an international, sociotechnical landscape

Marianne Martens, Gitte Balling, Kristen A. Higgason

This research article presents an exploratory case study of the sociotechnical landscape of BookTok, and how young people use it to connect with others around the books they love…

Reflections on adolescent literacy as sociocultural practice

Denise E. Agosto

This paper aims to discuss the concept of “literacy” within the new literacy, new literacies and library and information science (LIS) discourses. It proposes widening the…