The predicament of the learner in the New Media Age : an investigation into the implications of media change for learning

This thesis explores the Predicament of the Learner in an age during which an emergent Participatory Culture supported by networked computers is converging or colliding with a top-down Culture Industry model of education associated with centralised control and traditional learning media. Two case st...

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Main Author: Francis, Russell James
Other Authors: Furlong, John : Edwards, Anne
Published: University of Oxford 2008
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495702