Overview
- Goes well beyond usual 'how to use computers in schools' literature to ask bigger questions about the purpose of schooling
- Brings together scholars concerned with social justice AND technology
- Provides practical, small scale examples of how real educators in diverse contexts can work to transform students' relationships with both technology and learning
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Towards Transformative Approaches to New Technologies and Student Diversity
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Part 1
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Futures Oriented Classrooms
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Part 2
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Back Matter
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Reviews
"Bigum and Rowan have put together a star collection of the most innovative researchers’ across the world. This will be a ‘must have’ book for anyone who knows anything about the field."
Prof Bridget Somekh Manchester Metropolitan University
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Leonie Rowan is a passionately committed educator who works with the concept of relationship centred pedagogies to disrupt traditional patterns of success and failure in diverse educational and cultural sites. Publishing widely in areas relating to the role of schools in social transformation she has also been a chief investigator on 3 nationally competitive Australia Research Council Grants and in 2010 won a Griffith University for Excellence in University Teaching.<BR>
Chris Bigum has an international reputation for researching the relationship between computing technologies and schooling and for thinking creatively about the way changing technological contexts challenge us to re-think the purposes of schooling. From the early years of computer use through to the read/write Web, his writings have consistently offered fresh and educationally productive insights.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transformative Approaches to New Technologies and Student Diversity in Futures Oriented Classrooms
Book Subtitle: Future Proofing Education
Editors: Leonie Rowan, Chris Bigum
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2642-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2641-3Published: 13 January 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9696-6Published: 22 February 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2642-0Published: 11 January 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 242
Topics: Educational Technology, Sociology of Education, Literacy, International and Comparative Education, Curriculum Studies