A New Perspective on Education in the Digital Age: Teaching, Media and Bildung

The authors offer a new perspective on education in the digital age, exploring emancipation, edification, self-formation, and democratic education through action-based research, medium theory, and the Bildung tradition. They argue that education needs to be rethought, resituated, and developed anew, with new norms and ways of teaching established. They analyze and discuss different strategies, ideas, and understandings, offering four promising ways to develop a new vision for education. The eBook editions of the book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 216 pages
Publication date: 18 May 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The authors of this eBook offer a fresh perspective on education in the digital age by integrating action-based research, sociology of education, medium theory, and the Bildung tradition. Through their extensive research spanning 15 years, they demonstrate how teachers and students can leverage new media to enhance their learning experiences, encompassing interaction, searching, visualization, construction, storage, and retrieval. The authors argue that education must be reimagined, repositioned, and revitalized in the digital era, necessitating the establishment of new norms and innovative teaching methods. Drawing on theory and case studies, they analyze and discuss various strategies, ideas, and understandings, proposing four promising approaches for shaping a new vision for education. Additionally, the eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com, made possible by the generous support of Aarhus University.

Weight: 332g
Dimension: 233 x 156 x 13 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350216754