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1st Edition

Understanding Technology in Education

Edited By Hugh Mackay, Michael Young, John Beynon Copyright 1991
276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge
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First published in 1991,  Understanding Technology in Education  examines the role of technology in education, being the first to connect the social nature of technology with the education and training of young people. The book highlights the diverse ways in which technologies are shaped by social forces, rather than existing solely as physical artifacts. It explores the pivotal role of... Read more

Introduction: Technology as an Educational Issue: Social and Political Perspectives
Hugh Mackay

1. Social Choice in Machine Design: The Case of Automatically Controlled Machine Tools
David Noble

2. The Gendering of Technology
Cynthia Cockburn

3. The Selling in the New Technology
Frank Webster and Kevin Robins

4. The Information Society: Ideology or Utopia?
David Lyon

5. Mass Production, the Fordist System and its Crisis
John Mathews

6. Life after Henry (Ford)
Robin Murray

7. The Cultural Production and Consumption of IT
Leslie Haddon

8. A Dialectics of Determinism: Deconstructing Information Technology
Paul Dowling

9. Microcomputers in Education: Dead and Living Labour
Pam Linn

Epilogue: Technology as an Educational Issue: Why it is so Difficult and Why it is so Important
Michael Young

Biography

Hugh MacKay, Michael Young, John Beynon

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