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Title The politics of education and technology : conflicts, controversies, and connections / Edited by Neil Selwyn and Keri Facer
Edition First edition
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description ix, 251 pages ; 23 cm
Series Digital Education and Learning
Palgrave Macmillan's digital education and learning series.
Contents Contents note continued: ch. 8 The Ideological Appropriation of Digital Technology in UK Education: Symbolic Violence and the Selling and Buying of the "Transformation Fallacy" / Timothy Rudd -- pt. IV The Politics of Education and Technology: Extending beyond "the Digital" -- ch. 9 Mobile Technologies and an Ethical Digital Literacy in the Face of Empire / Richard Hall -- ch. 10 Tweak: Biosocial Imaginations and Educational Futures / Johanna Motzkau -- ch. 11 Epilogue: Building Allegiances and Moving Forward / Neil Selwyn
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction: The Need for a Politics of Education and Technology / Keri Facer -- pt. I Recognizing the Politics of "Learning" and Technology -- ch. 2 Educational Technology and the "New Language of Learning": Lineage and Limitations / Norm Friesen -- ch. 3 Networked Cosmopolitanism? Shaping Learners by Remaking the Curriculum of the Future / Ben Williamson -- pt. II The Politics of Technological Opportunity and Risk -- ch. 4 Becoming the Future: The "Lake Highlands" Middle School Laptop and Learning Initiative / David Shutkin -- ch. 5 The Politics of Online Risk and the Discursive Construction of School "E-Safety" / Andrew Hope -- pt. III The Global Politics of Education and Technology -- ch. 6 "Empowering the World's Poorest Children"? A Critical Examination of One Laptop per Child / Neil Selwyn -- ch. 7 Changing Narratives of Change: (Un)intended Consequences of Educational Technology Reform in Argentina / Julian Sefton-Green --
Summary This text gives a critical perspective on the use of digital technology in education. Drawing on a wealth of theoretical and empirical work, it examines the stakeholders in education technology, the struggles to settle how technology should be used in education, and the questions that underpin these debates: What, exactly, is the purpose of education? How can we use technology to achieve it? Whose answers to these questions win out in civic discussion, and whose win in the marketplace? With chapters covering everything from single-school studies to international political initiatives, this book lays bare the messy realities of technology use in education and their implications for contemporary society
Analysis Australian
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-243) and index
Audience Tertiary/Undergraduate, Postgraduate
Subject Education -- Effect of technological innovations on.
Educational technology.
Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
Author Facer, Keri, 1972-
Selwyn, Neil.
LC no. 2013010741
ISBN 9781137031976 (hardcover : alk. paper)