ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the epistemological commitments of the iPad loan programme and its participants. It explores some ways of thinking about iPad-based family literacy programmes and then utilises the epistemological approach to help people describe and explain the iPad loan programme. The workshops and iPad loan programme were organised slightly differently in each preschool; the chapter examines closely at those that occurred at Southern Preschool. People made it clear that they were seeking to learn from them about how they used the iPad at home and that their goal in doing so was to inform preschool practice and future preschool-home relationships around the iPad. From the description of the start-up workshop for the iPad loan programme at Southern Preschool, it is apparent that, although educational apps were available on the iPads, people only mentioned them in passing. Finally, the chapter concludes that parents and the teacher were taking strategic positions on the goals of iPad-embedded literacy education.
