ABSTRACT
In the first part of this chapter, the author applies the opportunities for learning (OfL) model to her research context in Limpopo, South Africa, drawing attention to the ways in which learning, literacies, dialogic encounters, and opportunities manifested over a three-year period with a specific emphasis on Grade 5 children producing blogs for children in an American elementary school. Through this example, the author shows how the OfL model can be applied in a concrete context in the global south. In the second part of the chapter, the author reconsidered the meaning of ‘opportunity’ in the OfL model through the lens of her research project. This re-examination of the concept of ‘opportunity’ enabled the author to see the relationality of the more-than-human that comprised her research assemblage and thus provided a more complex way of understanding opportunities.
