Technology and the Politics of Instruction

ISBN-13: 9780805858181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 204 str.

Jan Nespor

Opis

Presents the study of computer-mediated instruction in a US research university that is the site of nationally known innovations in this area. This book traces the organizational entanglements of a constantly reconfiguring network of people, things, categories, and ideas that are sometimes loosely, sometimes tightly entangled in forms of CMI.

Recenzje

“At last! A scholarly, research-based book that refuses to make vacuous claims about the benefits of computer-mediated instruction in university settings.... It is clearly hallmarked for becoming a classic, touchstone text within a range of fields concerned with instruction and new technologies.”

—Michele Knobel
Montclair State University

“This is a wonderful book.... The case study of the growth of computer-mediated instruction at one university is quite comprehensive in describing the many political, practical, sociological, and educational factors that played a role.... The excerpts from administrators, faculty, and students are powerful. [Nespor’s] analysis is very thought provoking.”

—Christian Schunn
University of Pittsburgh

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. Introduction. Part I: Making CMI Visible Within the University. Making CMI Visible as Policy: Instructional Accounting. Seeing Instruction Through the Lens of Finance. Looking Good in Public. Part II: With Sandi Schneider, Seeing Teaching as Work. With Sandi Schneider, Making Disciplinary Objects Visible: Pathology on CD-ROM. With Sandi Schneider, Making Students' Difficulties Visible: The Math Emporium. Making Lectures Visible: Re-Designing in Nutrition. Part III: Making Coursework Visible in the Frame of the Test. Making the Course Visible in Everyday Life. CMI and Organizational Change. Appendix: Data Sources.

O autorze

Jan Nespor