Digital Difference. Perspectives on Online Learning

Cover......Page 1
EDUCATIONAL FUTURES:\rRETHINKING THEORY AND PRACTICE\r50......Page 3
Digital Difference......Page 4
ISBN: 9789460915796 (hardback)......Page 5
TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 6
DIGITAL DISQUIETUDE......Page 8
Digital Selfhood......Page 9
Transformations......Page 10
Politics of the Digital......Page 11
A Different Generation?......Page 13
REFERENCES......Page 14
DIGITAL SELFHOOD......Page 16
THE UNCANNY......Page 18
THE ACADEMIC IN THE HAUNTED SPACE......Page 19
THE ELECTRONIC ARCHIVE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SELF......Page 20
THE OWNERSHIP OF EMAILS......Page 23
NOTES......Page 28
REFERENCES......Page 29
INTRODUCTION......Page 30
JESTER......Page 31
FOOL......Page 32
AUTHORITY, ATTENTION AND RISK......Page 33
INNOCENCE, DANGER AND FUN......Page 34
COMPLEXITY, LIMINALITY AND ABSURDITY......Page 37
CONCLUSION......Page 39
REFERENCES......Page 40
LURKING ON THE THRESHOLD: OUR STORIES......Page 44
METHODOLOGY......Page 45
POSITIONING OURSELVES AS RESEARCHERS......Page 46
Positioning of Self......Page 47
Imposed Boundaries......Page 48
Power and Pedagogy......Page 49
Ordering......Page 50
Teacher and Learner Identity......Page 51
Understanding the Conventions of the Media Used......Page 52
Avoiding Engagement......Page 53
Over Engaging......Page 54
CONCLUSIONS......Page 55
REFERENCES......Page 56
TRANSFORMATIONS......Page 58
INTRODUCTION......Page 60
WRITING IN HYPERTEXT: THEORETICAL APPROACHES......Page 61
What Might Hypertext be Challenging?......Page 62
Learning to Write in Hypertext: Technical Competency as Fluency?......Page 63
Manchi’s Project......Page 66
Shujon’s Project A Brief History of MUDs......Page 67
SUBVERSIVE PLAY: METAPHOR, HUMOUR AND GENRE SWITCHING......Page 69
Argumentation......Page 71
CONCLUSIONS......Page 72
REFERENCES......Page 74
PRINT CULTURE AND THE DIGITAL TURN......Page 76
SHIFTS IN THE NATURE OF KNOWLEDGE......Page 77
THE CHALLENGE TO ACADEMIC AUTHORITY......Page 78
TEXTUALITIES AND TEMPORALITIES: FAST AND SLOW TIME......Page 79
STUDENTS WRITING DIGITALLY: RE-THINKING THE NATURE OF AUTHORSHIP......Page 81
ASKING FOR TROUBLE: THRESHOLD CONCEPTS AND TROUBLESOME KNOWLEDGE......Page 82
DIGITAL MEDIA AND DISTANCIATION......Page 83
REFERENCES......Page 84
POLITICS OF THE DIGITAL......Page 86
INTRODUCTION......Page 88
WEB 2.0......Page 89
LEARNING TECHNOLOGISTS AS PARTISANS......Page 90
POLITICAL ALIGNMENT ANALYSIS......Page 91
PERSONAL CONSTRUCT ANALYSIS......Page 93
IN CONCLUSION......Page 95
REFERENCES......Page 96
BACKGROUND......Page 98
DEVELOPMENT OF PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP......Page 99
THE LEARNERS......Page 100
OUR RESEARCH APPROACH......Page 101
From Information…......Page 102
‘Good Citizenship’ and Problem-Solving......Page 103
Meaning-Making Structures and the Development of Reflective Judgment......Page 104
Disorienting Dilemmas......Page 108
Virtual Transformative Learning?......Page 111
CONCLUSIONS: REINTEGRATION AND COMMITMENT TO ACTION......Page 112
REFERENCES......Page 114
INTRODUCTION......Page 116
THE LITERATURE CONTEXT......Page 117
STUDY METHOD......Page 119
CASE STUDY ONE: CHARLES – POWER, PRIVILEGE AND PERSONAL SPACE......Page 120
CASE STUDY TWO: KWAME STRUGGLES IN AN ALIEN WORLD......Page 122
DISCUSSION......Page 125
CONCLUSIONS......Page 126
REFERENCES......Page 127
INTRODUCTION......Page 130
VIRTUALITY AND SIMULATION......Page 132
E-LEARNING, THE WORKPLACE, AND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF DIFFERENCE......Page 134
E-LEARNING AS SIMULACRUM......Page 135
E-LEARNING AS IMPLOSION......Page 136
CONSTRUCTIVISM......Page 137
A FOCUSED CRITIQUE......Page 138
CONCLUSION: A RADICAL ONLINE PEDAGOGY OF DIFFERENCE......Page 140
REFERENCES......Page 142
A DIFFERENT GENERATION?......Page 146
INTRODUCTION......Page 148
BEYOND ‘USERS’......Page 149
TOWARDS USER-LED EDUCATION: THE C5C......Page 152
TOWARDS GENERATION C EDUCATION?......Page 156
REFERENCES......Page 158
INTRODUCTION......Page 160
NOTIONS OF APPROPRIATION......Page 162
STAGES OF APPROPRIATION......Page 165
TYPOLOGY OF APPROPRIATION......Page 166
EXAMPLE OF APPROPRIATION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION......Page 169
SYNTHESIS, CONCLUSION AND OUTLOOK......Page 170
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT......Page 171
REFERENCES......Page 172
AN EVOCATIVE OPPOSITION......Page 174
HIERARCHICAL VIOLENCE AND THE DE-PRIVILEGING OF THE ROLE OF THE TEACHER......Page 176
THE DISCOURSE OF THE MARKET......Page 178
A RACIALISED DISCOURSE AND PROBLEMATIC METAPHOR......Page 179
REFERENCES......Page 182
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 186
INDEX......Page 192