Cyber Spaces/Social Spaces: Culture Clash in Computerized Classrooms

by Colin Lankshear (Contributor), Michele Knobel (Contributor), Colin Lankshear (Contributor), Michele Knobel (Contributor), Ivor F. Goodson (Author), J. Marshall Mangan (Contributor)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $40.53

  What happens when a new social technology is imposed on the established social technology of the school? Drawing on research conducted over a ten-year period in three different regions of the Anglo-American developed world, it examines themes arising from the struggle for the social spaces and emerging cyber spaces of schooling;

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $108.86

  What happens when a new social technology is imposed on the established social technology of the school? This book presents an unusual application of critical cultural analysis to a series of empirical case studies of educational uses of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Drawing on research conducted over a ten-year period in three different regions of the Anglo-American developed world, it examines themes arising from the struggle for the social spaces and emerging cyber spaces of schooling; the role of identity projects in educational change; and the paradoxes which arise from these processes. The resulting analysis offers a rich - and sobering - perspective on the rush to technologize classrooms.