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Learning Futures: Education, Technology and Social Change [Kindle Edition]

Keri Facer
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Drawing on ten years of research into educational innovation, incorporating scientists, teachers, students, industry professionals and policy makers, this book challenges the often adopted notion of a single, linear educational future. Considering alternative strategies for conceptualising the future of education, Facer takes into account the challenges that future decades may face.

About the Author

Keri Facer is Professor of Education at the Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, where she works in the fields of digital cultures, educational change and social justice.


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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 482 KB
  • Print Length: 192 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0415581435
  • Publisher: T & F Books UK (6 April 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B004VEJT5S
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  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #113,854 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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By iltinfe
Format:Paperback
Great book - frightening and stimulating at the same time!

Author maintains that

"We can rewrite the relationship between education and socio-technical change." (p.10)

As a grandparent, and having started my education career as a "Lecturer in Environmental Science" in 1975, I'm struck by Keri's attention throughout to intergenerational and sustainability issues as fundamental to understanding where education, and schools, need to go in future. This is the first time I've seen ed-tech issues set so well in that context.

Along with Neil Selwyn's most recent book, "Education and Technology : Key Issues and Debates", this provides an invaluable contemporary look at the socio-technical ecosystem within which all the changes going on in society, and the evolution of technology use in education need to be considered.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Smart and Sane 5 Aug 2011
By Eylan
Format:Paperback
This is a must read for anyone thinking about how young people and how our communities grow and learn.
I cannot recommend it enough - for it is insightful about our current position; clever in the choice of research, practice and lessons learned from a diverse set of disciplines; ethical and profoundly humane; and just plain well written.

My only critique would be that some of the future envisioning is a little too far ahead and too much based on major world events (eg war!) If the author believes that the only way that the kind of change that many (most) who work in and understand educational contexts believe is necessary is possible after a war - then we are really in trouble! However, this is a small criticism given the breadth, clarity and passion which she brings to a highly complex discussion.
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The challenges educators will face, then, are not those of responding to a single overwhelming flood of new generational practice, but of deciding how to respond to very visible different experiences of learning outside the school setting. This is a very old problem in a new form. &quote;
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We should also conceive of education as a primary motor for shaping social values, ideas, beliefs and capabilities rather than as a servant of society, laggardly following on behind wherever socio-technical change might lead. &quote;
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The risks are that schools will be preparing students for a future of radical inequality that offers desirable futures for only a small elite and sustainable futures for no one. &quote;
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