Critical Perspectives on Technology and Education

1. Critical Is Something Others (Don’t) Do: Mapping the Imaginative of Educational Technology
Chris Bigum, Scott Bulfin, Nicola F. Johnson

2. Gorillas in Their Midst: Rethinking Educational Technology
Chris Bigum, Leonie Rowan

3. The Work of Theory in Ed-Tech Research
Nicola F. Johnson

4. Extending Understandings of Educational Technology: Teachers’ Critiques of Educational Technology as Important Intellectual Capital for Researchers
Joanne Orlando

5. Digital Play: What Do Early Childhood Teachers See?
Susan Edwards, Joce Nuttall, Ana Mantilla, Elizabeth Wood, Sue Grieshaber

6. Youth Breaking New “Ground”: Iconicity and Meaning Making in Social Media
Mark Evan Nelson, Stacy Marple, Glynda Hull

7. The Scripted Sandbox: Children’s Gameplay and Ludic Gendering
Nicola Pallitt, Marion Walton

8. The (Mis)Use of Community of Practice: Delusion, Confusion, and Instrumentalism in Educational Technology Research
Michael Henderson

9. Researching with Heart in Ed-Tech: What Opportunities Does the Socially Indeterminate Character of Technological Artifacts Open up for Affirming Emergent and Marginalized Practices?
Julianne Lynch

10. Teaching the “Other”: Curriculum “Outcomes” and Digital Technology in the Out-of-School Lives of Young People
Glenn Auld, Nicola F. Johnson

11. Translocalization in Digital Writing, Orders of Literacy, and Schooled Literacy
Dimitrios Koutsogiannis

12. The Lake Highlands One-to-One Laptop Initiative: NCLB, Drill and Practice and the Formation of a Relational Network
David Shutkin

13. The Global and the Local: Taking Account of Context in the Push for Technologization of Education
Rachel Buchanan, Kathryn Holmes, Gregory Preston, Kylie Shaw

14. Technology and Education—Why It’s Crucial to be Critical
Neil Selwyn

Keywords: Education, Technology and Digital Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Education Policy, Media and Communication