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Beyond Technology: Children´s Learning in the Age of Digital Culture
David Buckingham
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Description for Beyond Technology: Children´s Learning in the Age of Digital Culture
Hardback. Beyond Technology offers a challenging new analysis of learning, young people and digital media. A leading professor of media and education offers a level headed analysis of the impact of new media on learning, drawing on a wide range of critical research. Num Pages: 220 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 510.
Beyond Technology offers a challenging new analysis of learning, young people and digital media. Disputing both utopian fantasies about the transformation of education and exaggerated fears about the corruption of childhood innocence, it offers a level-headed analysis of the impact of these new media on learning, drawing on a wide range of critical research.
Beyond Technology offers a challenging new analysis of learning, young people and digital media. Disputing both utopian fantasies about the transformation of education and exaggerated fears about the corruption of childhood innocence, it offers a level-headed analysis of the impact of these new media on learning, drawing on a wide range of critical research.
Buckingham argues that there is now a growing divide between the media-rich world of childrens lives outside school and their experiences of technology in the classroom. Bridging this divide, he suggests, will require more than superficial attempts to import technology into schools, or to ... Read more
Beyond Technology will be essential reading for all students of the media or education, as well as for teachers and other education professionals.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745638805
SKU
V9780745638805
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99-11
About David Buckingham
David Buckingham is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, London University where he directs the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media.
Reviews for Beyond Technology: Children´s Learning in the Age of Digital Culture
"Though rich in empirical accounts and dense in theoretically informed analyses, this book is written in a clear and sophisticated prose." Children & Society "David Buckingham has written an uncommonly thoughtful cross-national study of an emerging “digital divide” between children’s and youth’s experience in and out of school. Understanding well the hidden structures that shape technology and schooling ... Read more