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Education and Social Justice in a Digital Age
Rosamund Sutherland
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Description for Education and Social Justice in a Digital Age
hardcover. This book proposes an approach to changing the educational system in order to redress inequalities in society, whilst at the same time acknowledging the potential transformative role of digital technologies. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JNAM; JNF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
In many countries the school curriculum oscillates between focusing on traditional subjects and focusing on skills that are linked to the needs of the 21st-century digital age. Rosamund Sutherland argues against such a skills-based curriculum, maintaining that, from a social justice perspective, the priority of schools should be to give young people access to the knowledge that they are not likely to learn outside school. She draws on the work of Michael Young, Lev Vygotsky, Amartya Sen and David Olson to develop new theoretical and practical insights that offer ways of changing policy and practice to improve equality and ... Read more
In many countries the school curriculum oscillates between focusing on traditional subjects and focusing on skills that are linked to the needs of the 21st-century digital age. Rosamund Sutherland argues against such a skills-based curriculum, maintaining that, from a social justice perspective, the priority of schools should be to give young people access to the knowledge that they are not likely to learn outside school. She draws on the work of Michael Young, Lev Vygotsky, Amartya Sen and David Olson to develop new theoretical and practical insights that offer ways of changing policy and practice to improve equality and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447305255
SKU
V9781447305255
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About Rosamund Sutherland
Rosamund Sutherland (1947-2019) was Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education, the University of Bristol. Her research was concerned with teaching and learning with ICT, young people’s use of digital technologies outside school, and mathematics education. She led a wide range of research projects funded by the ESRC, and collaborated with colleagues in Latin America, Europe ... Read more
Reviews for Education and Social Justice in a Digital Age
"This is the most refreshing book about education I have read for many years. Any teacher or future teacher, indeed anyone involved in or interested in education, will learn much from reading it. It deftly illustrates that the only way to a more just system is when knowledge is placed at the heart of all we do as teachers." Michael ... Read more