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Title Education, technology, power : educational computing as a social practice / edited by Hank Bromley and Michael W. Apple
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [1998]
©1998

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Description vii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series SUNY series, frontiers in education
SUNY series, frontiers in education.
Contents Introduction: Data-Driven Democracy? Social Assessment of Educational Computing / Hank Bromley -- 1. The Mythic Machine: Gendered Irrationalities and Computer Culture / Zoe Sofia -- 2. The Everyday Aesthetics of Computer Education / Anthony P. Scott -- 3. Telling Tales out of School: Modernist, Critical, and Postmodern "True Stories" About Educational Computing / Mary Bryson and Suzanne de Castell -- 4. Computer Advertising and the Construction of Gender / Matthew Weinstein -- 5. "I Like Computers, but Many Girls Don't": Gender and the Sociocultural Context of Computing / Brad R. Huber and Janet Ward Schofield -- 6. "You Don't Have to be a Teacher to Teach This Unit": Teaching, Technology, and Control in the Classroom / Michael W. Apple and Susan Jungck -- 7. Control and Power in Educational Computing / Peter H. Kahn, Jr. and Batya Friedman -- 8. Using Computers to Connect Across Cultural Divides / Brigid A. Starkey
9. Learning to Exercise Power: Computers and Community Development / Antonia Stone
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-241) and indexes
Subject Education -- Data processing -- Social aspects.
Computer-assisted instruction -- Social aspects.
Computer managed instruction -- Social aspects.
Critical pedagogy.
Author Apple, Michael W.
Bromley, Hank.
ebrary, Inc.
LC no. 97035887
ISBN 0791437973 hardcover alkaline paper
0791437981 paperback alkaline paper