Disruptive Fixation (eBook)

School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism

Christo Sims (Autor)

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2017
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8529-9 (ISBN)

Infos

In New York City in 2009, a new kind of public school opened its doors to its inaugural class of middle schoolers. Conceived by a team of game designers and progressive educational reformers and backed by prominent philanthropic foundations, it promised to reinvent the classroom for the digital age. Ethnographer Christo Sims documented the life of the school from its planning stages to the graduation of its first eighth-grade class. Disruptive Fixation is his account of how this "e;school for digital kids,"e; heralded as a model of tech-driven educational reform, reverted to a more conventional type of schooling with rote learning, an emphasis on discipline, and traditional hierarchies of authority. Troubling gender and racialized class divisions also emerged.Sims shows how the philanthropic possibilities of new media technologies are repeatedly idealized even though actual interventions routinely fall short of the desired outcomes-often dramatically so. He traces the complex processes by which idealistic tech-reform perennially takes root, unsettles the worlds into which it intervenes, and eventually stabilizes in ways that remake and extend many of the social predicaments reformers hope to fix. Sims offers a nuanced look at the roles that powerful elites, experts, the media, and the intended beneficiaries of reform-in this case, the students and their parents-play in perpetuating the cycle.Disruptive Fixation offers a timely examination of techno-philanthropism and the yearnings and dilemmas it seeks to address, revealing what failed interventions do manage to accomplish-and for whom.

Autor

Christo Sims is assistant professor of communication and a founding member of the Studio for Ethnographic Design at the University of California, San Diego.

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
• Zusatzinfo: 1 line illus. 1 table.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Accountability • amenable and fixable subjects • American school • Amy Chua • Anecdote • anthropologist • Boundaries • Bullying • bureaucrat • Career • caregiver • Classroom • Classroom management • community fixations • Community Involvement • Community of Practice • Competition • Creative professional • Curriculum • Design • Designer • Digital Age • digital kids • Digital Media • Disability • disadvantage • disruptive fixation • disruptive fixations • Downtown School • Economic Inequality • Education • educational game • Educational Reform • Educational technology • education reform • Emerging Technologies • Entrepreneurship • Equal Opportunity • ethnography • Everyday life • Expert • Facilitation • fifth grade • Funding • gender division • Generation Z • Generosity • Governance • Graduate school • High Tech • Homework • Household • idealism • Identities • Ideology • imminent collapse • Information and Communications Technology • Infrastructure • Institution • James Paul Gee • Jean Lave • Joel Klein • Knowledge Worker • learning • Learning environment • Learning Environments • Literacy • Local community • Lunch • media technology • middle school • mimetic isomorphism • moral imperative • Multiculturalism • New Media • New York City • No Child Left Behind Act • optimism • parenting • Parents • Parent–Teacher Association • participant • participatory culture • Paul Willis • pedagogic fixations • Pedagogy • Peer Group • philanthropic foundations • philanthropy • Planning • Policy • Politics • Private School • privileged parents • problematization • problematization process • Profession • professional development • Project • Public School • pundit • racialized class division • rendering technical process • residence • rhetoric • sanctioned counterpractices • sanctioned nonconformity • Scholarship • school • school choice • school district • Self-Image • Shorthand • sixth grade • Social Class • social division • Social reproduction • Social Transformation • space • spatial fixations • state school • students • Supporter • systems thinking • tagline • Teacher • technical process • Technological Change • Technology • techno-philanthropism • Test (assessment) • Textbook • The Various • United States • Waiting for Godot • Writing • youtube
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8529-9 / 1400885299
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8529-9 / 9781400885299