Media and digital literacies in Canadian teacher educators’ open educational practices: A post-intentional phenomenology

Affinity Spaces - glossary item

According to Gee (2017) affinity spaces are locations of learning, where membership is constituted by common interests and passions for a topic, project, activity, or game. Based on this common interest, membership in the spaces, either physical or digital, is characterized by ebbs and flows ranging from novice to experts. Features include: anyone can contribute, there is a distinction between individual and community knowledge, there are flexible ways for interactions to involve external sources of ideas, tacit knowledge is held as commonly accepted, spaces embrace varying forms of participation, status is achieved through a variety of contributions, and roles include both helper and teacher (Gee, 2015).

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