Education/Technology/Power

Educational Computing as a Social Practice

Michael W. Apple, Hank Bromley (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

1998
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-3798-8 (ISBN)

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With a focus on educational computing, this book examines how technological practices align with or subvert existing forms of dominance. Examines the important question: Is the enormous financial investment school districts are making in computing technology a good idea?

Is the enormous financial investment school districts are making in computing technology a good idea? With a focus on educational computing, Education/Technology/Power examines how technological practices align with or subvert existing forms of dominance.

Hank Bromley is Assistant Professor of Educational Organization, Administration, and Policy and Associate Director of the Center for Educational Resources and Technologies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of Lisp Lore: A Guide to Programming the Lisp Machine (second edition coauthored with Richard Lamson). Michael W. Apple is the John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has written numerous books, including The Curriculum: Problems, Politics, and Possibilities, Second Edition with Landon E. Beyer, published by SUNY Press; Ideology and Curriculum; and Official Knowledge.

List of Figures

Introduction: Data-Driven Democracy?
Social Assessment of Educational Computing
Hank Bromley

I. Discursive Practices: Who Speaks of Computing, and How?

1. The Mythic Machine: Gendered Irrationalities and Computer Culture
Zoë Sofia

2. The Everyday Aesthetics of Computer Education
Anthony P. Scott

3 Telling Tales Out of School: Modernist, Critical, and Postmodern "True Stories" About Educational Computing
Mary Bryson and Suzanne de Castell

4. Computer Advertising and the Construction of Gender
Matthew Weinstein

II. Classroom Practices: Pedagogy and Power in Action

5. "I Like Computers, but Many Girls Don't": Gender and the Sociocultural Context of Computing
Brad R. Huber and Janet Ward Schofield

6. "You Don't Have To Be A Teacher To Teach This Unit": Teaching, Technology, and Control in the Classroom
Michael W. Apple and Susan Jungck

III. Democratic Possibilities: When Does Technology Empower?

7. Control and Power in Educational Computing
Peter H. Kahn, Jr. and Batya Friedman

8. Using Computers to Connect Across Cultural Divides
Brigid A. Starkey

9. Learning to Exercise Power: Computers and Community Development
Antonia Stone

Notes

References

List of Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index

Reihe/Serie	SUNY series, Frontiers in Education
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	417 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung ► Unterrichts-Handreichungen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7914-3798-1 / 0791437981
ISBN-13	978-0-7914-3798-8 / 9780791437988
Zustand	Neuware