The anti-democratic employment of school cyberspace. A pilgrimage into an Arab winter?

Autores

  • Alan Hodkinson Liverpool Hope University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21344/iartem.v7i2.744

Palavras-chave:

The Internet, Disability, Cyberspace

Resumo

In this article I wish to bring critical attention to the manner in which the Internet and intranet are employed as pedagogical space in schools. Within this article I also articulate my struggle to understand and conduct research in this place of electronic communication. Informed by Nietzsche and some biblical scripture, I suggest that what we are finding in education is a church of the intranet that is worshiped as a shelter of safety for educational learning. However, my contention is that a lack of control of uploaded and downloaded digital media results in spaces which mirror extant societal prejudices and bigotry. To evidence my argument I present specific data from English schools' colonisation of cyberspace and suggest that in this terra nullius1 a new civilisation, constructed upon old world ideals, ‘conformed’ the construction of the disabled indigene.

Biografia do Autor

  • Alan Hodkinson, Liverpool Hope University

    Dr. Alan Hodkinson is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies at the Faculty of Education, Liverpool Hope University in England. He is an executive committee member of the British Education Studies Association and a Member of the Primary Committee and a Fellow of the
    Historical Association.

    He can be reached on email at: [email protected]

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2015-09-09

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Peer-reviewed research articles

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Hodkinson, A. (2015). The anti-democratic employment of school cyberspace. A pilgrimage into an Arab winter?. IARTEM E-Journal, 7(2), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.21344/iartem.v7i2.744