Education/Technology/Power - Educational Computing as a Social Practice

With a focus on educational computing, this book examines how technological practices align with or subvert existing forms of dominance. Examines the important question: Is the enormous financial investment school districts are making in computing technology a good idea?

About the author

Hank Bromley is Assistant Professor of Educational Organization, Administration, and Policy and Associate Director of the Center for Educational Resources and Technologies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of Lisp Lore: A Guide to Programming the Lisp Machine (second edition coauthored with Richard Lamson). Michael W. Apple is the John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has written numerous books, including The Curriculum: Problems, Politics, and Possibilities, Second Edition with Landon E. Beyer, published by SUNY Press; Ideology and Curriculum; and Official Knowledge.

Product details

• Authors: Michael W. Apple
• Assisted by: Michael W Apple (Editor), Michael W. Apple (Editor), Apple Michael W. (Editor), Hank Bromley (Editor), Bromley Hank (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.07.1998
• EAN: 9780791437988
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-3798-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 417 g
• Series: Suny Series, Frontiers in Educ; SUNY series, Frontiers in Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, EDUCATION / Computers & Technology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Sociology & anthropology, Philosophy and theory of education, Sociology and anthropology, EDUCATION / Teaching / Materials & Devices