Education/Technology/Power: Educational Computing As a Social Practice

Lingua: inglese

Editore: State Univ of New York Press, Herndon, Virginia, U.S.A., 1998

0791437973 / 9780791437971

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Interest in educational computing has grown explosively in recent years. School districts are rushing to invest in new technologies, hoping to "equip" students with skills said to be needed in today's world of intense economic competition. Is this enormous investment in computing technology a good idea? Reaching a useful answer requires a more finely grained question: investment in what kind of educational computing? a good idea for whom? under what conditions? We need to know who is affected, how, and by what specific practices.but that sort of analysis is generally not available. And without it, the tremendous pressure schools are under to "keep up" technologically is likely to push them down unwise paths. This book is an effort to provide just such an assessment. The computer functions as a symbol of the quality of education children are receiving. The appeal of this symbol depends on a number of assumptions about the nature of technology, among them that the computer benefits all students equally, as a neutral instrument with no connection to the unequal distribution of power in society; that access to such technology is a guarantee of upward social mobility; and that wider facility with high technology will alleviate the problems of the United States economy.…

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Titolo
Education/Technology/Power: Educational Computing As a Social Practice
Autore
Hank Bromley and Michael W. Apple ( editied )
Editore
State Univ of New York Press, Herndon, Virginia, U.S.A.
Anno di pubblicazione
1998
Condizione
Fine
Sovraccoperta
No Jacket
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0791437973
ISBN 13
9780791437971

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