New Frontiers in Technological Literacy

Breaking with the Past

J. Dakers (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

183 Seiten

2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-38632-8 (ISBN)

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This book attempts to rethink the concept of technological literacy in a modern context, not only in terms of a subject area taught in schools, but also as an important general concept that all citizens should engage with. As this book will illustrate, the concept of technological literacy has no universally agreed definition.

Andoni Alonso, The Complutense University of Madrid, Spain David Barlex, The Design and Technology Association, UK Leo Elshof, Acadia University, Canada Cathrine Hasse, Aarhus University, Denmark Mary Kirk, Metropolitan State University, USA Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines, USA Stephen Petrina, University of British Columbia, Canada Silja Samerski, University of Oldenburg, Germany Jamie Wallace, Aarhus University, Denmark Nan Wang, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Molly Watson, Student, UK John Williams, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Foreward; Carl Mitcham Introduction: Breaking with the Past; John R. Dakers 1.Technological Literacy as a Creative Process of Becoming Other; John R. Dakers 2.Postliterate Machineries; Stephen Petrina 3.Technology and Technology Education: Perspectives from a young person; Molly Watson 4.Technological Literacy and Digital Democracy: a relationship grounded in Technology Education; P. John Williams 5.Re-Envisioning Our Knowledge Tradition: From Gender-Blind to Gender Aware; Mary Kirk 6.Eco-technological Literacy for Resiliency; Leo Elshof 7.A Chinese Perspective on Technological Literacy; Nan Wang 8.Enabling both reflection and action: a challenge facing technology education; David Barlex 9.From CyberEducation to CyberActivism: Can CyberLiteracy Transform the Public Sphere?; Andoni Alonso 10.Situating technological literacy in the workplace; Jamie Wallace and Cathrine Hasse 11.Genetic literacy: Scientific input as a precondition for personal judgment?; Silja Samerski

Zusatzinfo	XI, 183 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung ► Unterrichts-Handreichungen
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
	Technik
ISBN-10	1-137-38632-0 / 1137386320
ISBN-13	978-1-137-38632-8 / 9781137386328
Zustand	Neuware