New Perspective on Education in the Digital Age

Drawing together action-based research with sociology of education medium theory and the Bildung-tradition the authors offer a new perspective on education in the digital age exploring emancipation edification self-formation and democratic education.<br/><br/>The authors draw on 15 years of action-based research and weave this with the theory to show how teachers and students might use new media for learning about interaction searching visualizing constructing storing and retrieving. The authors show that education needs to be rethought resituated and developed anew in the digital age. New norms and new ways of teaching need to be established. Building on the theory and case studies they analyze and discuss different strategies ideas and understandings offering four promising ways to develop a new vision for education.<br/><br/><i>The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Aarhus University.</i>