Educational Ecologies Toward Acb

Informationen zum Autor By John Dowd Klappentext This book elucidates how technology has impacted the discourse and practices of higher education. Dowd situates current educational movements centered on new technologies, such as the Do It Yourself (DIY) movement, within broader ideological concepts concerned with education, progress, technology, and work. Knowledge of how the discourse and practices of higher education have been impacted enables teachers to create learning environments that are conducive to the cultivation of ethically informed and engaged lives. Zusammenfassung This book elucidates how technology has impacted the discourse and practices of higher education by situating current educational movements centered on new technologies within broader ideological concepts concerned with education! progress! technology! and work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Rhetorics of NeutralityChapter 2: MOOCs and the Entrepreneurial SpiritChapter 3: Singularity UniversityChapter 4: Media and Educational EcologiesConclusion: Education and the Changing Meaning of Work

Product details

• Authors: John Dowd
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2016
• EAN: 9780739198971
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-9897-1
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Communication Studies, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, Higher Education;Rhetoric;Technology