Politics of Education and Technology

Andrew Feenberg, Simon Fraser University, CanadaAndrew Hope, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKBen Williamson, University Of Exeter, UKChris Bigum, Griffith University, AustraliaEdward Hamilton, Capilano University, CanadaEls Kuiper, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The NetherlandsInes Dussel, Latin American School Of Social Sciences, Unesco, ArgentinaJulian Sefton-Green, London School Of Economics, UKLangdon Winner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USALeonie Rowan, Griffith University, AustraliaMatthew Allen, Curtin University, AustraliaNorm Friesen, Thompson Rivers University, CanadaPatricia Ferrante, Latin American School Of Social Sciences, Unesco, ArgentinaRichard Hall, De Montfort University, UKSarah Lewthwaite, University Of Nottingham, UKTimothy Rudd, University Of Brighton, UK

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• 1. Introduction: The Need for a Politics of Education and Technology; Neil Selwyn and Keri Facer PART I: RECOGNIZING THE POLITICS OF "LEARNING" AND TECHNOLOGY 2. Educational Technology and the "New Language of Learning": Lineage and Limitations; Norm Friesen 3. Networked Cosmopolitanism? Shaping Learners by Remaking the Curriculum of the Future; Ben Williamson PART II: THE POLITICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITY AND RISK 4. Becoming the Future: The "Lake Highlands" Middle School Laptop and Learning Initiative; David Shutkin 5. The Politics of Online Risk and the Discursive Construction of School "E-safety"; Andrew Hope PART III: THE GLOBAL POLITICS OF EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY 6."Empowering the World's Poorest Children"? A Critical Examination of One Laptop Per Child; Neil Selwyn 7. Changing Narratives of Change: (Un)intended Consequences of Educational Technology Reform in Argentina; Inés Dussel, Patricia Ferrante, and Julian Sefton-Green 8. The Ideological Appropriation of Digital Technology in UK Education: Symbolic Violence and the Selling and Buying of the "Transformation Fallacy"; Timothy Rudd PART IV: THE POLITICS OF EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY: EXTENDING BEYOND "THE DIGITAL" 9. Mobile Technologies and an Ethical Digital Literacy in the Face of Empire; Richard Hall 10. Tweak: Biosocial Imaginations and Educational Futures; Nick Lee and Johanna Motzkau 11. Epilogue: Building Allegiances and Moving Forward; Keri Facer and Neil Selwyn