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TECHNOLOGY/
POWER
Educational Computing as a Social Practice
Edited by Hank Bromley and Michael W. Apple
About the Editors
HANK BROMLEY is Assistant Professor in Sociology of Education, and Associate Director of the Center for Educational Resources and Technologies, at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His interests lie in the areas of education and social change, the politics of technology, and feminist theory. In an earlier incarnation, he studied computers at MIT, joined an artificial intelligence research group at AT&T Bell Laboratories, and wrote Lisp Lore: A Guide to Programming the Lisp Machine. He has recently published in Educational Theory, Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, and Thought & Action: The NEA Higher Education Journal. With David S. Shutkin, he co-edited a September 1998 special issue of Educational Policy on "Social Power, Science and Technology, and Education." (contact via home page or email)
MICHAEL W. APPLE is John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has written extensively on the relationship between education and power. Among his many books are Ideology and Curriculum, Education and Power, Teachers and Texts, Official Knowledge, Democratic Schools, and Cultural Politics and Education. (contact via email)