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Technology and the Politics of Instruction (Hardcover)
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In this study of computer-mediated instruction (CMI) in a U.S.
research university that is the site of nationally known
innovations in this area, Jan Nespor traces the varying material
and organizational entanglements of a constantly reconfiguring
network of people, things, categories, and ideas that are sometimes
loosely, sometimes tightly entangled in forms of CMI. He unfolds
how the different forms and meanings of CMI policy and practice
were constructed over time, across departments, and in relation to
students7; academic trajectories. Tying together a range of issues
usually separated in discussions of instructional technology and
examining often slighted topics, such as the articulations of local
and national practices, this book questions the common vocabulary
for making sense of CMI and contributes to educational change
theory by showing how CMI has evolved both from the top-down and
the bottom-up.
"Technology and the Politics of Instruction "is distinctive in its
multi-level approach and in the breadth of its conceptual frame.
Departing from the mainstream research on instructional technology
to focus on mundane and widespread forms of CMI2;PowerPoint slides,
CD-ROMs, self-paced labs, and the like2;Nespor views these from
multiple standpoints, not just what they mean for professors, but
also for administrators and students. The effect is to displace the
typical emphasis in CMI research from cutting-edge, high resource
artifacts and systems (the importance of which is not questioned)
to the politics and organizational processes that shape the uses of
such things.
This book is intended primarily for scholars and students in the
fields of educational and more broadlyorganizational change, the
politics and sociology of education, curriculum theory, higher
education, and educational administration, and will also interest
instructional technologists and technology developers.
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