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Education and Social Justice in a Digital Age


Education and Social Justice in a Digital Age

Paperback by Sutherland, Rosamund (Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol)

Education and Social Justice in a Digital Age

£28.99

ISBN:
9781447305248
Publication Date:
27 Nov 2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bristol University Press
Imprint:
Policy Press
Pages:
176 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 22 - 24 May 2024
Education and Social Justice in a Digital Age

Description

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.

Contents

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.

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