New Frontiers in Technological Literacy [electronic resource] : Breaking with the Past /
Dakers, J.editor.
This book attempts to rethink the concept of technological literacy in a modern context, not only in terms of a subject area taught in schools, but also as an important general concept that all citizens should engage with. As this book will illustrate, the concept of technological literacy has no universally agreed definition.
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New Frontiers in Technological Literacy: Breaking with the Past; Contents; Foreword: Advancing and Questioning Literacy; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Breaking with the Past; References; Conceptualizing Technological Literacy; Chapter 1: Technological Literacy as a Creative Process of Becoming Other; Introduction; Essentialism and Classification; Conventional Thought on the Concept of a Whole; The Concept of Assemblages; Becoming Technologically Literate; Speculative Multidimensional Time-Line Thinking; References; Chapter 2: Postliterate Machineries; Machineries; Literacies
Postliterate MachineriesNotes; The Hidden Voice of Youth; Chapter 3: Technology and Technology Education: Perspectives from a Young Person; Issues Relating to Democracy; Chapter 4: Technological Literacy and Digital Democracy: A Relationship Grounded in Technology Education; Introduction; Globalization; Technology Education; Recent Trends in Technology Education; Digital Communication Technologies; Digital Democracy; The Grounding of the Relationship; Conclusion; References; Gender and Technology; Chapter 5: Reenvisioning Our Knowledge Tradition: From GenderBlind to GenderAware; Introduction
Dualistic Delusions of GenderGendered Philosophy of Science (and Technology); Invisible Women in Science and Technology; Conclusion; References; Notes; Sustainability; Chapter 6: Eco-Technological Literacy for Resiliency; Progress and Its Long-TermCost; Toward an Understanding of Our Human Predicament; Conclusion; References; Technological Literacy in China; Chapter 7: A Chinese Perspective on Technological Literacy; Background: Literacy in China; Philosophy and Technics in Premodern China; Philosophy and Technology in Modern China; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References
Education and the Concept of Technological LiteracyChapter 8: Enabling Both Reflection and Action: A Challenge Facing Technology Education; Justifying Reflection and Action at a Time of Uncertainty; Pedagogy for Reflection and Action; Achieving Action and Reflection: Considering How Needs and Wants Are Met by Technological Products and Services; Recent Developments in England in Response to the Curriculum Revision; Discussion; Conclusion; References; Chapter 9: From Cybereducation to Cyberactivism: Can Cyberliteracy Transform the Public Sphere?; Cybereducation; Cyberscience; Cyberactivism
ConclusionAcknowledgment; Note; References; Technological Literacy in the Workplace; Chapter 10: Situating Technological Literacy in the Workplace; References; Chapter 11: Genetic Literacy: Scientific Input as a Precondition for Personal Judgment?; Rendering the Public Speechless; The Genetic Mutation of the Listeners; The Popular Gene; Notes; References; About the Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This book attempts to rethink the concept of technological literacy in a modern context, not only in terms of a subject area taught in schools, but also as an important general concept that all citizens should engage with. As this book will illustrate, the concept of technological literacy has no universally agreed definition.
Educational technology.
Communication.
Engineering.
Social sciences.
Computer science.
Computers and civilization.
Educational Technology.
Media Studies.
Engineering, general.
Social Sciences, general.
Computer Science, general.
Computers and Society.