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Schools and Schooling in the Digital Age: A Critical Analysis book cover

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Schools and Schooling in the Digital Age A Critical Analysis

By Neil Selwyn Copyright 2011
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more
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 Policymaking  5. Digital Technology and the Privitisations 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

Biography

Neil Selwyn is Senior Lecturer in the London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, University of London, UK.

"This book represents a key intervention in the debate and deserves not only to be widely read but also acted on."—British Journal of Education Technology\

"Selwyn’s blend of political and sociological perspectives offers an antidote to the celebratory accounts of digital technology in schools. His incisive analyses of the structures and culture of schools—the "grammar of schooling"—that combine to make technology’s current and future influence on classroom practice "underwhelming" is spot on...Selwyn has produced a slim volume well worth the time of those bone-tired of the utopian/dystopian, techno-centrist genre yet curious, even passionate, about answers to significant policy-to-practice questions that this author asks and answers bravely and fully."— Larry Cuban, Educational Technology Journal

"This book provides an excellent overview of the social-cultural complexities surrounding technology use in school, whilst offering a convincing case for the need for constructive critical analysis of educational technology." - Andrew Hope, Educational Research and Evaluation

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