Educational Research: Networks and Technologies

1. Networks and Technologies: on the Continuity and Change of Educational Research and Practice.- 2. www.thedevelopmentofknowledge.net .- 3. Networks, Information Politics, and the New Paradigm of Social Production.- 4. Networks as Spaces and Places: Their Importance for Educational Research Collaboration.- 5. The Role of Electronic Reading and Writing in Networking and in Educational Research: What Difference Does it Make?.- 6. On the Position of the Educationalist Intellectual in the Information Age: Shouldn't We Become Meta-modern Artists?.- 7. The Hidden Homogenization of Educational Research: On Opening up the Sphere of Responsiveness.- 8. Network, Critique, Conversation: Towards a Rethinking of Educational Research Methods Training.- 9. Research in Motion: Doctoral Programmes at the Network University.- 10. Public Space in a Network Society? A Note on the Call for Public Space (Philosophy) in Education Today.- 11. 'Erasmus the Albatross': The Transmission of Ideas as Information.- 12. Penelope's work: Only Disconnect.- 13. Normalizing Parenthood Once Again: What it Means to be a Parent Today.- 14. True Love Waits: Abstinence Education in the U.S.A..- 15. Punishment as an Educational Technology - A Form of Pedagogical Inertia in Schools?.- 16. Notes on Contributors.- 17. Index.

"This groundbreaking book records the intellectual struggles of a diverse and distinguished group of scholars as they come to grips with the changes in knowledge production, and modes of research communication, engendered by contemporary information and communications technology. The book performs a major service in placing the phenomenon of networks - their potentialities and also their dangers - squarely on our intellectual agenda."D.C. Phillips, Professor Emeritus of Education and Philosophy, Stanford University"In this book, a rich array of international scholars in the philosophy and history of education address a pressing concern in contemporary educational research and educational practice: the impact of information technology and networks. The authors are strikingly successful, both in explicating the effects of these changes on both domains and in subverting these effects by pointing out the ironies and continuities lodged beneath technology's veneer of utility and novelty."David F. Labaree, Professor of Education, Stanford University