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The Future of the curriculum : school knowledge in the digital age / Ben Williamson

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, c2013Description: 139 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780262518826
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LB 1570 .W55 2013
Contents:
1. Prototyping and researching the curriculum of the digital age -- 2. Curriculum change and the future of official knowledge -- 3. Networks, decentered systems, and open educational futures -- 4. Creative schooling and the crossover future of the economy -- 5. Psychotechnical schools and the future of educational expertise -- 6. Globalizing cultures of lifelong learning -- 7. Making up DIY learner identities -- 8. Conclusion: an (un)official curriculum of the future?
Summary: Although ideas about digital media and learning have become an important area for educational research, little attention has been given to the practical and conceptual implications for the school curriculum. In this book, Ben Williamson examines a series of contemporary curriculum innovations in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia that reflect the social and technological changes of the digital age. Arguing that the curriculum is always both forward- and rearward-looking, Williamson considers how each of these innovations represents a certain way of understanding the past while also promoting a particular vision of the future.
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1. Prototyping and researching the curriculum of the digital age -- 2. Curriculum change and the future of official knowledge -- 3. Networks, decentered systems, and open educational futures -- 4. Creative schooling and the crossover future of the economy -- 5. Psychotechnical schools and the future of educational expertise -- 6. Globalizing cultures of lifelong learning -- 7. Making up DIY learner identities -- 8. Conclusion: an (un)official curriculum of the future?

Although ideas about digital media and learning have become an important area for educational research, little attention has been given to the practical and conceptual implications for the school curriculum. In this book, Ben Williamson examines a series of contemporary curriculum innovations in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia that reflect the social and technological changes of the digital age. Arguing that the curriculum is always both forward- and rearward-looking, Williamson considers how each of these innovations represents a certain way of understanding the past while also promoting a particular vision of the future.

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