Jan Nespor: 4 books

Book cover of Technology and the Politics of Instruction
by Jan Nespor
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012

In this study of computer-mediated instruction (CMI) in a U.S. research university that is the site of nationally known innovations in this area, Jan Nespor traces the varying material and organizational entanglements of a constantly reconfiguring network of people, things, categories, and ideas that...
Book cover of Knowledge In Motion

Knowledge In Motion

Space, Time And Curriculum In Undergraduate Physics And Management

by Jan Nespor
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014

Using an analysis of learning by a case study comparison of two undergraduate courses at a United States University, Nespor examines the way in which education and power merge in physics and management. Through this study of politics and practices of knowledge, he explains how students, once accepted...
Book cover of Schooling the Symbolic Animal

Schooling the Symbolic Animal

Social and Cultural Dimensions of Education

by Keith Basso, Gregory Bateson, Caroline Bledsoe
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2000

This anthology introduces some of the most influential literature shaping our understanding of the social and cultural foundations of education today. Together the selections provide students a range of approaches for interpreting and designing educational experiences worthy of the multicultural societies...
Book cover of Tangled Up in School

Tangled Up in School

Politics, Space, Bodies, and Signs in the Educational Process

by Jan Nespor
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013

Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in an urban elementary school, this volume is an examination of how school division politics, regional economic policies, parental concerns, urban development efforts, popular cultures, gender ideologies, racial politics, and university and corporate agendas...
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