Distrusting Educational Technology: Critical Questions for Changing Times

by Neil Selwyn

Book Overview

Distrusting Educational Technology critically explores the optimistic consensus that has arisen around the use of digital technology in education. Drawing on a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this book shows how apparently neutral forms of educational technology have actually served to align educational provision and practices with neo-liberal values, thereby eroding the nature of education as a public good and moving it instead...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415708001
• ISBN13: 9780415708005
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"