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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785129903321

Autore

Selwyn Neil

Titolo

Schools and schooling in the digital age : a critical analysis / / Neil Selwyn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

9780203840795

0203840798

9781136894077

1136894071

9781136894084

113689408X

9781282898462

1282898469

9786612898464

6612898461

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 pages)

Collana

Foundations and Futures of Education

Disciplina

370.285

Soggetti

Educational technology

Internet in education

Education - Effect of technological innovations on

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Part I: High-tech hope and digital disappointment; 1 Revisiting the promise of digital technology and schools; 2 The messy realities of digital technology use in schools; 3 Rethinking digital technology and schools; Part II: Making sense of schools, schooling and digital technology; 4 Digital technology and education policy-making; 5 Digital technology and the privatisations of schooling; 6 Digital technology and the organisational concerns of schools; 7 Digital technology and the lived experiences of teachers and students

Part III: What to do with schools in the digital age?; 8 Reconstructing schools and schooling in the digital age; 9 Readjusting schools and



schooling in the digital age; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.Tackl