1st Edition
Technological Literacy and the Curriculum
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1992, Technological Literacy and the Curriculum addresses the question ‘what should technological literacy consist of?’. The authors’ view is very different from the narrow, skills-based, technical perspective. They see the cultural and social as central to the technological curriculum, not marginal. The book pushes forward and explores the possibilities of a new, expanded,... Read more
1. Introduction: Learning to Read Technology
John Beynon
2. Social Histories of Computer Education: Missed Opportunities?
Richard Capel
3. Constructions of Technology: Reflections on a New Subject
Peter Medway
4. Technology, Within the National Curriculum and Elsewhere
Michael Barnett
5. Is the New Technology Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem in Education?
Michael Apple
6. From Computer Literacy to Technology Literacy
Hugh Mackay
7. Sniffers, Lurkers, Actor Networkers: Computer Mediated Communications as a Technical Fix
Keith Grint
8. The Purpose of the Computer in the Classroom
Daniel Chandler
Biography
John Beynon, Hugh Mackay
