Cyber Spaces/Social Spaces: Culture Clash in Computerized Classrooms

180 Pages·2002·1.198 MB·English

by  Ivor Goodson, Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear, J. Marshall Mangan (auth.)

Cyber Spaces/Social Spaces
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Cyber Spaces/
Social Spaces
❒ ❒ ❒
Culture Clash in
Computerized Classrooms
Ivor Goodson,Michele Knobel,
Colin Lankshear,and J.Marshall Mangan
CYBERSPACES/SOCIALSPACES
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Cyber spaces/social spaces :culture clash in computerized classrooms / by
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Illustrations and Tables xi
Chapter 1 Cyber Spaces/Social Spaces 1
Chapter 2 Culture Clash in Computerized Classrooms 19
Chapter 3 Downsizing The Watershed 39
Chapter 4 Machines and Mindsets 59
Chapter 5 Facing the Digital Challenge Far from Town 85
Chapter 6 [email protected] 105
Chapter 7 Paradoxes and Culture Clashes 137
Appendix Statistical Analysis of Classroom Interaction 157
References 159
Index 169
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Acknowledgments
AS PERHAPS IS FITTING GIVEN THE TOPICS OF THIS WORK, the manu-
script was assembled largely through the use of computer and telecom-
munications technologies by four people based in four different
countries:England,Mexico,the United States,and Canada.Many peo-
ple assisted in this process in different ways and in different places.The
authors offer their gratitude to the following people and institutions
for their contributions.
Ivor wishes to thank his colleagues at the University of East Anglia,a sup-
portive conversational community. He also would like to thank Nicky
Skivington for her assistance in preparing this manuscript,and as always,
his family,Mary and Andrew.
Colin and Michele wish to thank their friends and colleagues in Mexico
and Australia who have supported in important ways the research effort in-
volved in producing this book and related work that it draws upon.In par-
ticular, we want to thank Angela Guzmán Ruíz, Hilario Rivera
Rodríguez, Adolfo Gomez Cortes, Silvia Mendoza Galoz, Rigoberto
Morales Landa,Jorge Manuel Sierra Ayil,María Marcela González Arenas,
Manuel Medina Carballo, J. Guadalupe Duarte Ramírez, Fausto César
Giron Montoya, Enrique Alonso Sánchez Manchinelly, María-Esther
Aguirre,Alicia de Alba,Ángel Díaz Barriga,Chris Bigum,Leonie Rowan,
Neil Anderson,Ludmila Doneman,Michael Doneman,Bob Bleicher,and
participants at Malveny and Yanga Headlands schools.We also gratefully
acknowledge economic support from Language Australia,and invaluable
institutional support from the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Technología,
Mexico (CONACyT),the Posgrado en Pedagogía (UNAM),the Centro
de Estudios sobre la Universidad/CESU (UNAM),the Faculty of Educa-
tion and Creative Arts at Central Queensland University,and the School
of Education at the University of Ballarat.