ISBN:
9780415951029
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (221 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Globalization Technological Change and Public Education
DDC:
306.43/2
Keywords:
Educational technology - Social aspects
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Globalization, Technological Change, and Public Education documents the dramatic changes taking place in public education through the incorporation of new information technologies. These additions to the public school environment have generally been seen as enabling tools to help students and nations compete in the global marketplace. Yet a closer look at the interplay of technological change and organizational restructuring suggests the emergence of new, less promising power relations. Through detailed ethnographic research and interviews in the Los Angeles public school system, Torin Monah
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; GLOBALIZATION, TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, AND PUBLIC EDUCATION; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 POLITICS OF SPACE; CHAPTER 2 JUST ANOTHER TOOL?; CHAPTER 3 TECHNOLOGICAL CULTURES; CHAPTER 4 FRAGMENTED CENTRALIZATION; CHAPTER 5 POLICY GAMES; CHAPTER 6 FLEXIBLE GOVERNANCE; CHAPTER 7 FUTURE IMAGINARIES; CHAPTER 8 NEOLIBERAL ORDERS; APPENDIX: ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
