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TECHNOLOGY/
POWER
Educational Computing as a Social Practice
Edited by Hank Bromley and Michael W. Apple
Table of Contents
| Introduction | Data-Driven Democracy? Social Assessment of Educational Computing Hank Bromley |
| Part I - Discursive Practices: Who Speaks of Computing, and How? | |
| Chapter 1 | Computers, Gender and Technological Irrationality Zoë Sofia |
| Chapter 2 | The Everyday Aesthetics of Computer Education Anthony P. Scott |
| Chapter 3 | Telling Tales Out of School: Modernist, Critical, and Postmodern "True Stories" about Educational Computing Mary Bryson and Suzanne de Castell |
| Chapter 4 | Computer Advertising and the Construction of Gender Matthew Weinstein |
| Part II - Classroom Practices: Pedagogy and Power in Action | |
| Chapter 5 | "I Like Computers, But Many Girls Don't": Gender and the Sociocultural Context of Computing Brad R. Huber and Janet Ward Schofield |
| Chapter 6 | "You Don't Have to Be a Teacher to Teach this Unit": Teaching, Technology, and Control in the Classroom Michael W. Apple and Susan Jungck |
| Part III - Democratic Possibilities: When Does Technology Empower? | |
| Chapter 7 | Control and Power in Educational Computing Peter H. Kahn, Jr. and Batya Friedman |
| Chapter 8 | Using Computers to Connect Across Cultural Divides Brigid A. Starkey |
| Chapter 9 | Learning to Exercise Power: Computers and Community Development Antonia Stone |