Postdigital Disconnects - The Discursive Formation of Technology in Education

This book employs a critical discourse ethnographic approach to map the production of social meaning in digital media in education, drawing on insights from Switzerland to unpack the disconnects which arise in thinking postdigitally and ways forward for rethinking sociocultural approaches.

List of contents

1. Introduction: The Discursive Formation of Technology in Education, 2. Rebooting Education: Technology and Learning in (Swiss) Policy Discourse, 3. Machines, Not Learners? An Event Ethnography of "Technologies for Teaching and Learning", 4. Between a Rock and a Hard Place? Teachers’ Discursive Constructions of Technological Change in the Classroom, 5. Wired Whizzes? Young People’s Digital Media Practices outside the Classroom, 6. "Just for Fun"? Young People Articulating the Disconnects, 7. Conclusion: Postdigital Disconnects

About the author

Marion Mathier holds a PhD in language and communication from the University of Bern, Switzerland. Currently, she is working as a lecturer for second and third language learning at a teacher training college in Switzerland and preparing a postdoctoral research project on platform pedagogies.

Summary

This book employs a critical discourse ethnographic approach to map the production of social meaning in digital media in education, drawing on insights from Switzerland to unpack the disconnects which arise in thinking postdigitally and ways forward for rethinking sociocultural approaches.

Product details

• Authors: Marion Mathier
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2023
• EAN: 9781032257723
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3225772-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Discourse Analysis, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Literacy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Literature: history & criticism, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Language teaching theory and methods, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Literature: history and criticism, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Applied linguistics for ELT