The Politics of Education and Technology: Conflicts, Controversies, and Connections

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: The Need for a Politics of Education and Technology....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Educational Technology and the “New Language of Learning”: Lineage and Limitations....Pages 21-38
Networked Cosmopolitanism? Shaping Learners by Remaking the Curriculum of the Future....Pages 39-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Becoming the Future: The “Lake Highlands” Middle School Laptop and Learning Initiative....Pages 63-82
The Politics of Online Risk and the Discursive Construction of School “E-Safety”....Pages 83-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
“Empowering the World’s Poorest Children”? A Critical Examination of One Laptop per Child....Pages 101-125
Changing Narratives of Change: (Un)intended Consequences of Educational Technology Reform in Argentina....Pages 127-145
The Ideological Appropriation of Digital Technology in UK Education: Symbolic Violence and the Selling and Buying of the “Transformation Fallacy”....Pages 147-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Mobile Technologies and an Ethical Digital Literacy in the Face of Empire....Pages 169-189
Tweak: Biosocial Imaginations and Educational Futures....Pages 191-207
Epilogue: Building Allegiances and Moving Forward....Pages 209-219
Back Matter....Pages 221-251