Brave New Classrooms: Democratic Education & the InternetThe 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. |
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Contents
The Political Economy of the New Discourse | 35 |
Points of Resistance | 55 |
Postcolonialism and the Internet | 75 |
Who Is the Egeneration and How Are They Faring | 125 |
Do Students Lose More than They Gain in Online Writing Classes? | 141 |
Searching for an Education | 153 |
Why Google Is Not Enough | 169 |
Pedagogies of Resistance | 189 |
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| Title | Brave New Classrooms: Democratic Education & the Internet Volume 37 of Digital formations, ISSN 1526-3169 |
| Editors | Joe Lockard, Mark Pegrum |
| Publisher | Peter Lang, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0820481238, 9780820481234 |
| Length | 360 pages |
| Subjects | › Education / Computers & Technology Education / Essays |
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