Cyber Spaces/Social Spaces: Culture Clash in Computerized Classrooms

Goodson, I.; Knobel, M.; Lankshear, C.; Mangan, M.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2003-03-17

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781403960306

DOI: 10.1057/9780230602151

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 172