Education and social justice in a digital age

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4473-0524-8
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 281 g

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 life chances for young people, while acknowledging the potential transformative role of digital technologies.

This timely book will be invaluable to teachers, academics, students and policy makers interested in the ways in which the digital landscape transforms the nature of the debate about equity and social justice in education.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sutherland, Rosamund

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Mobilität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

An unfolding story;

Expanding the possible: people and technologies;

Knowledge worlds: boundaries and barriers;

Ways of knowing: everyday and academic knowledge;

Schools as spaces for creating knowledge;

Assessment and the curriculum in a digital age;

Education in the 21st century;

The idea of justice in education.

Über Autor(innen)

Sutherland, Rosamund
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 and Africa. In this book she brought together the previous strands of her research, with a particular focus on social justice.

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 and Africa. In this book she brought together the previous strands of her research, with a particular focus on social justice.