UID:
almafu_9960010647502883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 164 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-4473-0524-8
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1-4473-1179-5
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1-4473-0526-4
Content:
This book proposes an approach to changing the educational system in order to redress inequalities in society, whilst at the same time acknowledging the potential transformative role of digital technologies.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Feb 2022).
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Ebooks.
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Education and social justice in a digital age; Contents; About the author; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. An unfolding story; Introduction; A personal history; A developing divide; A digital revolution?; This book; 2. Expanding the possible: people and technologies; Introducing the digital; People and designed objects; A brief history of digital technologies and education; Institutional factors that influence how digital technologies are used in schools; Transforming learning: expanding the possible; Capabilities, education and social justice; Concluding remarks
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3. Knowledge worlds: boundaries and barriersIntroduction; Knowledge and skills in the 21st century; Competing ideologies in the curriculum; Powerful knowledge: an example from mathematics education; Curriculum and social justice; Concluding remarks; 4. Ways of knowing: everyday and academic knowledge; School and home; Learning computer programming at home: the case of Alistair; Science simulations and out-of-school game-playing8; Everyday and academic concepts; Vygotsky and sociocultural theory; Concluding remarks; 5. Schools as spaces for creating knowledge; A brief history
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Schools as institutionsPersonalisation and education; Three scenarios for future schools; Concluding remarks; 6. Assessment and the curriculum in a digital age; Introduction; Accountability and challenging low expectations; High-stakes assessment and what is valued in the curriculum; Teaching, feedback and evidence; Rethinking the digital in assessment; Concluding remarks; 7. Education in the 21st century; The purpose of education; Theory as a way of seeing; Knowledge and pedagogy; Knowledge in a digital age; Agency and responsibility; Teachers and teaching; Teachers as professionals
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8. The idea of justice in educationIntroduction; Capabilities and the 'opportunities to become'; Cooperation between schools and between students; Cooperation, professional development and leadership; Schooling and social justice; Endnote: on the pleasure of making and writing; References; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4473-0525-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-306-14299-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.56687/9781447305262
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781447305262/type/BOOK
