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Document Type

Book Chapter

Department/Program

Education

Publication Date

2-2005

Book Title

The Politics of Curriculum Change: Race, Hegemony and Power in Education

Publisher

Peter Lang

Editor

M. Christopher Brown II, and Roderic R. Land

City

New York, NY

First Page

91

Last Page

102

Abstract

"When Beverly Gordon remarked that the twenty-first century would be marked by a 'battle for control over who would educate minorities within Western societies and the nature of that education' ( 1990, p. 88), I do not think she or anyone else could have imagined what would be the role of information technologies in this fight. The U.S. Department of Education in 1999 hosted a forum entitled 'The Future of Technology in Education: Envisioning the Future.' The proceedings of the forum resulted in the identification of 'emerging priorities' (p. 1 ). These priorities include: ( 1) All students will be technologically literate and responsible 'cybercitizens,' and (2) Education will drive the '£-learning economy.' More recently, the International Society for Technology in Education, in collaboration with the Milken Exchange on Education Technology, published the 'National Educational Technology Standards for Students' ( 1998). In it they postulate that 'our educational system must produce technology capable kids.'..."

ISBN

9780820448633

Racialized Technology: Computers, Commodification, and “Cyber-Race


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