Youth is not just a biological category; it’s also a societal invention. This may sound like socio-babble but as we have changed from an agricultural to post-industrial society our definition of youth has evolved. Young people used to be parental property; nurtured by domestic folk practices then forced into work and afforded no legal rights. Youth today is a… Read more →
Prensky, somewhat incredulous at academia’s critical response to the Digital Native, recently claimed he intended his signature concept to be used only as a metaphor (see this book for details). As I implied in my previous post, it is not an empirically verifiable concept; however this hasn’t prevented its academic investigation. The research addressing the Digital Native, to enable a… Read more →
Joint post by Joan Forbes and Elspeth McCartney This is the first post linked to the event: BERA 2013 Conference: Social Theory and Education SIG papers - the paper is entitled: ‘Professional social capital in schools and children’s services: understanding the distribution of leadership culturally’ The co-authors of the above titled BERA2013 paper have been working together for a… Read more →
I’m new to blogging. Mainly because I don’t have a readership that justifies the time, I’ve been reluctant to blog. However, I realise that, unshackled from the constraints of academic writing blogging could be a liberating experience. I’ll begin by unpacking the concept of the Digital Native; the way it’s deployed in public debate and academia’s frustration with the… Read more →
Top of the class this week: Louise Archer, Jennifer DeWitt, Jonathan Osborne, Justin Dillon, Beatrice Willis & Billy Wong (2013): ‘Not girly, not sexy, not glamorous’: primary school girls’ and parents’ constructions of science aspirations. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 21:1, 171-194. Why is it the case that girls, even from a young age, stick science in the ‘not for… Read more →
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