Peter Sawchuk

Adult Learning and Technology in Working-Class Life

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This explores everyday learning among working-class Canadians, exploding the myth that such learning is class-neutral.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780521817561
• ISBN-10: 0521817560
• Artikelnr.: 26688440

Inhaltsangabe

1. Understanding learning, technology and social class: concepts and claims
2. A historical materialist examination of theories of adult learning
3. 'That's technology': understanding working-class perspectives on computer technology
4. Microanalysis of worker's computer learning: two case studies of computer learning
5. Working class computer learning networks: exploring the elements of collectivity and class habitus
6. Understanding working-class standpoints in computer learning
7. Oral culture, computer learning and social class
8. Material barriers in working-class computer learning
9. Contradiction and commodification in working-class computer learning
10. Conclusions and implications.