Curriculum online? Exploring the political and commercial construction of the UK digital learning marketplace     

Neil Selwyn 《British Journal of Sociology of Education》2007,28(2):223-240

Government support for the production and consumption of educational software is now a key element of New Labour's education technology drive. At present much attention is being directed towards marketing ‘digital learning’ to an educational sector traditionally wary of technological innovation. In an effort to understand the social shaping of this current phase of policy‐making, the present paper examines the political and commercial discourses surrounding digital learning and associated initiatives such as Curriculum Online and the Digital Curriculum. After analysing a range of political and commercial texts produced from 2000 to 2005, the paper explores the dominant themes emerging from these discursive constructions—considering in particular the limitations of the often ambiguous yet structured ways in which digital learning is being shaped by its key actors.  相似文献   

Erratum to: Figured Worlds and American Dreams: An Exploration of Agency and Identity Among Latinx Undocumented Students     

Aurora Chang  Mark Anthony Torrez  Kelly N. Ferguson  Anita Sagar 《The Urban Review》2017,49(4):692-692

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On-Line Goldmine? Searching for Sociology of Education on the World-Wide Web     

Neil Selwyn 《British Journal of Sociology of Education》2002,23(1):141-148

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Designing Research on Teaching Styles     

Neil L. Baumgart 《Educational studies》1977,3(2):117-127

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'The Kids are Doing All Right': Differences in parental satisfaction,expectation and attribution in St Petersburg,Sunderland and     

Julian G Elliott  Neil Hufton  Leonid Illushin  Wayne Willis 《Cambridge Journal of Education》2001,31(2):179-204

Comparative studies of attitudes in different countries have resulted in the claim that parents in the USA and England tend to have unrealistically positive views of their children's schools and academic performance. Low expectations, together with a belief in the importance of natural ability, it has been argued, lead to low standards and reduce striving to succeed. The present study builds upon earlier investigations of children's attitudes, beliefs and behaviours in Sunderland, Eastern Kentucky and St Petersburg by surveying parental perspectives. Findings from these three regions reinforce earlier findings about English and American complacency and the more demanding nature of the Russian context. In line with our earlier studies, and contrary to the suggestion of a number of writers, an emphasis upon effort, rather than ability, was a strong feature of the English and American responses, although it is pointed out that such beliefs may not actually result in high work rates. The paper concludes by suggesting that the important role of parents in instilling important attitudes and behaviours in their children is undermined by the current emphasis upon schools as fundamentally responsible for ensuring high levels of achievement.  相似文献   

Creating Knowledge for Advocacy: The Discourse of Research at a Conservation Organization     

Neil Lindeman 《Technical Communication Quarterly》2007,16(4):431-451

In the field of conservation, the distinction between academic research and advocacy appears to be undergoing a shift as the number of PhD-level researchers at conservation advocacy organizations grows. Drawing on my case study of one researcher at a prominent conservation nongovernmental organization (NGO), I have shown how this shift is manifested in the communication of NGO research. My study includes a discourse analysis of this researcher's publications from the forums of both scholarship and advocacy including, as a representation of discourse in the latter forum, gray literature (reports, books, and other texts produced and distributed outside the channels of the academic and publishing industry). I have also drawn on my interviews with this researcher about her publications. My study highlights specific features typical of her rhetoric that result from her occupying a hybridized cultural and professional space where research and advocacy overlap.  相似文献   

Food for future thought     

Neil Selwyn 《Learning, Media and Technology》2012,37(4):447-448

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The process of psychological consultation     

Anna Nolan  Neil Moreland 《Educational Psychology in Practice》2014,30(1):63-77

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Robespierre: High priest of the Jacobins     

Sherry Devereaux Ferguson 《Communication Studies》2013,64(4):246-253

During the turbulence of the French Revolution, a small foppish provincial lawyer arose to preach a rhetoric of virtue designed to legitimize Jacobin rule. Assuming a Christlike ethos, Maximilien Robespierre inspired a cult that met weekly to read his speeches and sing hymns of praise. The Festival of the Supreme Being marked the climax of Robespierre's reign of virtue.  相似文献   

NEW MEDIA     

Roger Neil Barton 《Media History》2013,19(4):379-406

In 1845 John Lewis Ricardo was among a group who bought the Cooke and Wheatstone British patents for the electric telegraph at a current cost of £10 million. Although many people have examined the history of the telegraph no one seems to have asked the question ‘Why?’ Ricardo was a Member of the Stock Exchange, financier and a leading politician campaigning against monopolies. This paper postulates that his prime objective, while the largest shareholder for the first three and executive Chairman of the Electric Telegraph Company for its first 12 years, was to build a network, obtain and then distribute financial intelligence to its own newsrooms, adjacent to all the Stock Exchanges in Britain. It was not an afterthought as has been widely assumed. Newspapers in the regions took advantage of this new media. When the telegraph companies later formed their own cartel/monopoly, and substantially boosted prices charged to newspapers, Ricardo changed sides and secretly campaigned for their nationalization.  相似文献