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Cyber Spaces/Social Spaces: Culture Clash in Computerized Classrooms
Cyber Spaces/Social Spaces Culture Clash in Computerized Classrooms Author:Ivor F. Goodson, Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear, J. Marshall Mangan 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 th... more »ree 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.« less