Literacies, Experiences and Technologies (Sibylle Gruber)

Quantity in Basket:none Code: 1-57273-703-4 Price:$45.00 Title: Literacies, Experiences and Technologies Sub-title: Reflective Practices of an Alien Researcher Author(s): Sibylle Gruber Publish Date: March 2007 Pages: 192 Format: Cloth

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This book provides readers with a critical self-reflective approach to studying the impact of social, cultural, historical, political, and educational backgrounds on the acquisition of technological literacy. It offers a critical examination of a researcher's underlying, often hidden, and always changing goals and perspectives. Readers are encouraged to keep in mind the following questions: How do the theories we use promote specific ideological leanings, and how can they lead to new understandings or misunderstandings about students' technological literacy experience? How do our positions as teacher, scholar, administrator, advisor, or student influence our practical and theoretical choices? How can we reflect on our practices and theories to arrive at new understandings of literacy learning in our institutions? How can we apply what we learned through reflecting on our practices and theories in our positions as teacher, scholar, administrator, advisor, or student? This volume adds to the work that values contextual approaches to studying technological literacy acquisition, acknowledges the researcher's positionalities in conducting research, and demonstrates how becoming an effective educator and researcher in a diverse society is not just a matter of acquiring information, but rather a process of personal growth and transformation. Contents: ESTABLISHING NETWORKS: LITERACIES, EXPERIENCES, AND TECHNOLOGIES. Methods, Methodologies, and Motivations. THEORIZING IDEOLOGIES AND PRACTICES: PAST AND PRESENT. Histories, Stories, Technologies. LIVING IN DIFFERENT CULTURES: EXPERIENCES OF THE BORDERLANDS. Observing Alba. A Nontraditional Woman’s Coming of Age. Rhetorical Strategies in Class and Online. Online Communication Strategies: Critical Thinking and Identity Politics. STRIKING STRAIGHT: LEARNING TO DO SCHOOL AND BE COOL. Equal but Separate. Basic Writing and Online Communication. A Rebel in More Ways Than One: Celie’s Online Communication. Don’t Mess With Me. I Won’t Put Up with This. REDEFINING AUTHORITY: TECHNOLOGICAL (DIS)INTEGRATION. Building on the Old, Working with the New: Authority Revisited. Authority in the Classroom: Shifting Perceptions. They Want It: A Reaffirmation of Long-Held Beliefs. It Could Be You: Bringing the Discussion Back Home. Blaming the Victim: Myths Revisited. Is There Hope? Synchronous and Asynchronous Exchanges. CONTEXTUALIZING LITERACIES: TRADITIONS, CULTURES, IDENTITIES, AND TECHNOLOGIES. An Educational Journey. Approaches to Literacy. Histories, Cultures, and Literacies. Jolita: Changing Cultures of Literacy. Mani: Integrating Cultures of Literacy. Current Technology Influences. Continuing Literacies. REFLECTING: TECHNOLOGIES AND IDEOLOGIES. References. Author Index. Subject Index.