Brave new classrooms : democratic education & the Internet / edited by Joe Lockard & Mark Pegrum.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lockard, Joe, 1953-

Pegrum, Mark, 1969-

Kathryn Faul and Joseph A. Wallace Fund.

Series:

Digital formations 1526-3169 ; v. 37.

Digital formations, 1526-3169 ; v. 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical pedagogy--United States.

Critical pedagogy.

United States.

Internet in education.

Education--Effect of technological innovations on.

Education.

Physical Description:

viii, 360 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2007]

Summary:

The early, halcyon days of e-learning are gone. Many who embraced personal computers and the Internet, and who devoted their work to creating new forms of electronic education, have grown dissatisfied with trends toward commodification and corporatization, a paucity of critical thought, poor quality distance learning, and the growing exploitation of teaching labor. Online learning's inherent democratic potential seems increasingly a chimera. Brave New Classrooms explores whether and to what extent its original promise can be recovered. It includes sixteen essays from educational practitioners, including some of the best-known theorists of Internet-based education.

Contents:

From counterdiscourses to counterpedagogies : an introduction / Joe Lockard and Mark Pegrum

Discourses of resistance : Socrates and Plato meet neoliberalism in the virtual agora: online dialog and the development of oppositional pedagogies / Mark Pegrum

The political economy of the "new" discourse of higher education / Mary Low O'Sullivan and Tom Palaskas

Points of resistance

From "equal access" to "widening participation": the discourse of equity in the age of e-learning / Robin Goodfellow

Webmastered: postcolonialism and the internet / Martha Henn McCormick

Hybrid teaching and learning : pedagogy versus pragmatism / Marjorie D. Kibby

The new literacy agenda for higher education : composition, computers, and academic labor at US research universities / Robert Samuels

Who is the e-generation and how are they faring in higher education? / Kerri-Lee Krause

Do students lose more than they gain in online writing classes? / Kate Kiefer

Won't get googled again : searching for an education / Tara Brabazon

Learning through critical literacy : why Google is not enough / Bettina Fabos

Pedagogies of resistance

Liberal arts and distance education : can socratic virtue and Confucius' exemplary person (junzi) be taught online? / Charles Ess

Tomorrow's yesterdays : teaching history in the digital age / T. Mills Kelly

The technical codes of online education / Edward Hamilton and Andrew Feenberg

Braving the body : embodiment and (cyber-)texts / Tina S. Kazan

The question of education in technological society / Darin Barney

Manifesto for democratic education and the internet / Joe Lockard.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-337) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Kathryn Faul and Joseph A. Wallace Fund.

ISBN:

0820481238

9780820481234

OCLC:

71005732