Schools and Schooling in the Digital Age - A Critical Analysis (Hardcover, New)

This book presents a wide-ranging and critical exploration of a topic that lies at the heart of contemporary education. The use of digital technology is now a key feature of schools and schooling around the world. Yet despite its prominence, technology use continues to be an area of education that rarely receives sustained critical attention and thought, especially from those people who are most involved and affected by it. Technology tends to be something that many teachers, learners, parents, policy-makers and even academics approach as a routine rather than reflective matter. Tackling the wider picture, addressing the social, cultural, economic, political and commercial aspects of schools and schooling in the digital age, this book offers to make sense of what happens, and what does not happen, when the digital and the educational come together in the guise of schools technology. In particular, the book examines contemporary schooling in terms of social justice, equality and participatory democracy. Seeking to re-politicise an increasingly depoliticised area of educational debate and analysis, setting out to challenge the many contradictions that characterise the field of education technology today, the author concludes by suggesting what forms schools and schooling in the digital age could, and should, take. This is the perfect volume for anyone interested in the application and use of technology in education, as well as the education policy and politics that surround it; many will also find its innovative proposals for technology use an inspiration for their own teaching and learning.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Foundations and Futures of Education
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	2011
Authors:	Neil. Selwyn
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	182
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-58929-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Educational resources & technology > General
LSN:	0-415-58929-0
Barcode:	9780415589291

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