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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: future of the curriculum
    sub title: school knowledge in the digital age
  name:
    name part: Williamson, Ben
    name part: (Educator)
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, Mass
    publisher: MIT Press
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (139 pages).
  abstract: An examination of curriculum innovations that are shaped by new ideas about digital media and learning.Although ideas about digital media and learning have become an important area for educational research, little attention has been given to the practical and conceptual implications for the school curriculum. In this book, Ben Williamson examines a series of contemporary curriculum innovations in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia that reflect the social and technological changes of the digital age. Arguing that the curriculum is always both forward- and rearward-looking, Williamson considers how each of these innovations represents a certain way of understanding the past while also promoting a particular vision of the future.The curriculum initiatives are all examples of what Williamson calls "centrifugal schooling," expressing a vision of education and learning that is decentered, distributed, and dispersed, emphasizing networks and connections. In centrifugal schooling, a curriculum is actively assembled and improvised from a heterogeneous mix of people, groups, coalitions, and institutional structures. Participants in curriculum design and planning include local governments, corporations, foundations, charities, and nongovernmental organizations. Among the curriculum innovations Williamson examines are High Tech High, a charter school network in San Diego that integrates technical and academic education; Opening Minds, a "competence-based" curriculum used in 200 British secondary schools; and Quest to Learn, a "school for digital kids" in New York City (with a sister school in Chicago). He also describes two major partnerships: the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, which advocates for "21st century readiness" for American students; and the Whole Education Alliance in Britain, a network of "third sector" educational organizations.
  note: Ben Williamson.
  subject:
    topic: Education
    topic: Curricula
  subject:
    topic: Curriculum planning
  subject:
    topic: Education
    topic: Effect of technological innovations on
  subject:
    topic: Digital media
  subject:
    topic: EDUCATION/Digital Media & Learning
  subject:
    topic: EDUCATION/General
  classification: LB1570 .W5765 2013eb
  classification: 375/.001
  identifier: 9780262315180
  identifier: 0262315181
  identifier: 9780262315197
  identifier: 026231519X
  identifier: 9780262518826
  identifier: 0262518821
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9457.001.0001
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 130118
    record change date: 20221121161800.6
    record identifier: in00004600567
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng