1st Edition

Learning Identities in a Digital Age Rethinking creativity, education and technology

By Avril Loveless, Ben Williamson Copyright 2013
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Digital media are increasingly interwoven into how we understand society and ourselves today. From lines of code to evolving forms of online conduct, they have become an ever-present layer of our age. The rethinking of education has now become the subject of intense global policy debates and academic research, paralleled by the invention and promotion of new learning identities, which are... Read more
1: Shaping Society, Technology and Learning Identity2: Mapping the Digital Age3: Reconstructing the Future of Education4: Making up Digital Learning Identities5: Assembling Creative Learning6: Thinking with Digital Tools7: Prototyping the Curriculum of the Future8: Being a Teacher in a Digital Age

Biography

Avril Loveless is Professor of Education and Head of Education Research at the University of Brighton, UK, with interests in creativity and pedagogy.

Ben Williamson is Lecturer of Education at the University of Stirling, UK, with particular interests in childhood and new media, curriculum innovation, and science, technology and society.

"This book works on several different levels. It’s an enlightening introduction to, and application of, recent (broadly postmodern) theory, which should be of interest to a readership well beyond the field of new technology. It exemplifies a critically reflexive research approach. It’s a genealogy of how we have come to view the so-called digital age and an exploration of what these perspectives mean for teachers, students and pedagogies. And finally, it enacts intellectual collaboration and dialogue within its pages between different disciplines, research approaches and theoretical orientations."—Sara Bragg, Research in Education