Wikiworld explores a revolution in the world of education. The way we learn is changing: institutionalised learning is transforming into new forms of critical learning and open collaboration. This book offers a historical and political framework to think about the future of learning and educational media. The authors provide an overview of the use of new technologies and learning practices, and assess how the changing nature of education can lead to a more socially just future. At the same time, they place their analysis of education within a wider social and economic framework of contemporary capitalism.

Wikiworld

Politics & Social Sciences

Suoranta, Juha

Social Sciences

Pluto Press

Vadén, Tere

Finland is known worldwide as a laboratory of the information society. The Finnish model combines information technology know-how with welfare state structures where equality seems to prevail. Can we take this picture at face value, or is it too optimistic? In this book we approach the case of Finland from children’s perspectives by exploring what ICTs (information and communication technology) and media they use, how they use them, and what their thoughts are concerning this use? How does media become a part of children’s everyday lives? The book is based on a nationally representative child survey supplemented by interviews where eight- to ten-year old Finnish children have been the key informants.

Children in the Information Society: The Case of Finland (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies)

Lehtimäki, Hanna

Computers & Technology

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Artistic Research Methodology: Narrative, Power and the Public (Critical Qualitative Research)

Artistic Research Methodology argues for artistic research as a context-aware and historical process that works inside-in, beginning and ending with acts committed within an artistic practice. An artistic researcher has three intertwined tasks. First, she needs to develop and perfect her own artistic skills, vision and conceptual thinking. This happens by developing a vocabulary for not only making but also writing and speaking about art. Second, an artistic researcher has to contribute to academia and the «invisible colleges» around the world by proposing an argument in the form of a thesis, a narrative; and in so doing helping to build a community of artistic research and the bodies of knowledge these communities rely on. Third, she must communicate with practicing artists and the larger public, performing what one could call «audience education». There is no way of being an engaged and committed partner in a community without taking sides, without getting entangled in issues of power. Consequently, the methodology of artistic research has to be responsive both to the requirements of the practice and the traditions of science. Here the embedded nature of the knowledge produced through artistic research becomes evident. Artistic Research Methodology is essential reading for university courses in art, art education, media and social sciences.

Arts & Photography

Hannula, Mika

Study & Teaching

Brazilian educational thinker Paulo Freire (1921-1997) belonged to those who worked to better human beings and society by opposing all forms of oppression. At this historical juncture, as predatory capitalism reigns and the planet is on the brink of climate catastrophe, we need Freire and his thoughts more than ever. Freire is a must-read in equipping people with a militant mindset and preparing them to participate in critical educational praxis-a connection of action and reflection to transform the world. We need a global conversation between Freirean scholars, activists, community organizers, workers, teachers, and parents in today's uncertain world. We need each other to unite against the death drive of capitalism and the dark forces of the global elite that have been ruining our living conditions.

Militant Freire

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Dio Press Inc

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