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ISSN number: 1746-4757

November 2003: IT Education and Democratic Practice

Reviewed links and offline resources

Each issue, we present a selection of hyperlinks and references to printed works relevant to the theme under discussion. We welcome further contributions to this list, although please note we have a policy of emphasising quality, rather than quantity, on these pages. Remember that all external links will open in the second browser window.

Hyperlinks

http://www.humanity.org.uk. HumanITy are a consultancy with a particular interest in special needs and social inclusion. This link connects with a list of papers on their web site relevant to education. Or try this alternative link to another page on the HumanITy site.

The Dearing Report into higher education. Worth reading to see what bits the government ignored...

Eduard Lindeman is a key figure in radical adult education practice. This site is a useful introduction to his work and has its own good, selective hyperlinks.

New Horizons is an online journal for alternative education, and has comprehensive archives.

Computeach: a fairly representative example of the standard, corporate model of IT education.

Offline resources

Theodore Roszak (1994): The Cult of Information (University of California Press, Berkeley). Of all the books which take a more sceptical view of IT, this is the most comprehensive and best-written; it also has a particular emphasis on education. Highly recommended.

Michael Welton, editor (1995): In Defense of the Lifeworld: Critical Perspectives on Adult Learning (SUNY Press, Albany). The title is fairly self-explanatory, and also indicates the linkages between the works in this collection and the ideas of Habermas. Fairly radical in tone throughout.

G. D. Garson (2000): "The role of information technology in quality education" in G. D. Garson, editor, Social Dimensions of Information Technology: Issues for the New Millennium (Idea Group, London). Very good, short article.

Neil Selwyn (1998): "What's in the Box? Exploring learners' rejection of educational computing", Educational Research and Evaluation 4/3. Selwyn has published several papers, from a sociological perspective, on the problems which exist with traditional ideas of IT education. This is probably the most representative example of his work.