Brave New Classrooms: Educational Democracy and the Internet

Although one of the most idealistic promises of the Internet has been its democratic potential, teachers have increasingly encountered forces of homogenization, standardization, censorship, hierarchy and corporatization. This edited volume, tentatively titled Brave New Classrooms: Educational Democracy and the Internet, is soliciting articles on political theory of electronic education; commodification and marketing of electronic courses; critiques of intellectual content and educational value of electronic courses; privatization, emergent intellectual property regimes, the knowledge commons, and university copyright practices for electronic course content; experiential electronic teaching essays across a variety of disciplines; integration of progressive and democratic education concepts (e.g. Korczak, Freire) into electronic environments; restrictive portalization (e.g. Blackboard) and learning access; redesign and transfer of traditional courses to electronic formats; differential social access to Internet learning resources; monolinguism and multilinguism in electronic education; race, ethnicity, gender or sexuality in electronic course design; dialogism and equality as values in electronic education; visions of progressive education via computers and the Internet. International perspectives especially welcome.

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