Equity of access to cultural resources through appropriation and learner generation of contexts for learning can be achieved by allowing all citizens to realise their potential through education. It is predicated on enabling and encouraging learners to bring the cultural practices they engage in outside formal education into schools, colleges and universities. Once inside these formal education organisations, learners can be supported, e.g. by scaffolding, into extending their cultural practices to incorporate educational processes that are valued by educational organisations. We would like to suggest that – loosely defined – criticality, creativity and reflective thinking are some of the key processes for education, learning and meaning-making generally. Democracy can be viewed as the possibility for equity of access to essential conceptual, cultural and social resources. Using emerging digital technologies to mediate these educational processes is a challenge for the future; there exists a real danger of creating a new digital divide.

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