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Learning Identities in a Digital Age: Rethinking creativity, education and technology

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Loveless A & Williamson B (2013) Learning Identities in a Digital Age: Rethinking creativity, education and technology. Changing Times in Education. London and New York: Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415675727/

Abstract
Digital media are increasingly interwoven into how we understand society and ourselves today. From lines of code to evolving forms of online conduct, they have become an ever-present layer of our age. The rethinking of education has now become the subject of intense global policy debates and academic research, paralleled by the invention and promotion of new learning identities, which are intended to incite teachers and students to think, feel, and act as social operators in schools and beyond. Learning Identities in a Digital Age provides a critical exploration of how education has been reimagined for the digital future. It argues that education is now the subject of a "cybernetic" mode of thought: a contemporary style of thinking about society and identity that is saturated with metaphors of networks, flexibility, interactivity, and connectedness. This book examines how shifts in thought have translated into fresh ideas about creative learning, interactive tools, curriculum reform, and teacher identity. The text identifies how learning identities have been promoted, and position young people as networked learners, equipped for political, economic and cultural participation in the digital age.

StatusPublished
Title of seriesChanging Times in Education
Publication date27/02/2013
PublisherRoutledge
Publisher URLhttp://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415675727/
Place of publicationLondon and New York
ISBN978-0-415-67571-0