Disruptive fixation : school reform and the pitfalls of techno-idealism / Christo Sims.
In New York City in 2009, a new kind of public school opened its doors to its inaugural class of middle schoolers. Conceived by a team of game designers and progressive educational reformers and backed by prominent philanthropic foundations, it promised to reinvent the classroom for the digital age....
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017] Ã2017 |
| Series: | Princeton studies in culture and technology.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Cycles of Disruptive Fixation; Chapter 3. Spatial Fixations; Chapter 4. Pedagogic Fixations; Chapter 5. Amenable and Fixable Subjects; Chapter 6. Community Fixations; Chapter 7. Conclusion: The Resilience of Techno-Idealism; Appendix. Ethnographic Fixations; Notes; References; Index.