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New media pathways: navigating the links between home, school, and the workplace
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posted on 2006-01-01, 00:00 authored by H Nixon, S Atkinson, Catherine BeavisCatherine BeavisThis chapter uses the case of students enrolled in the Multimedia Pathway offered by Harbourside High School to discuss the tensions and contradictions inherent in the views that: (a) school curriculum and pedagogy have much to learn from young people's informal and leisure-based learning; and (b) school-based courses in new media are important because they increase student retention and the chance of success in post-school employment. We draw on literature about the "new work order" (Gee, Hull, & Lankshear, 1996) to explore the nature of these students' learning about and with lCTs and show that the students' knowledge exists "in a network of relationships" (Gee, 2000) that bridge the formal and informal learning divide. Finally, we discuss the parts played by their in- and out-oi-school engagements with lCT in their becoming the kinds of portfolio people supposedly required by the new capitalism.
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Handbook of research on literacy in technology at the K-12 levelChapter number
7Pagination
118 - 136Publisher
Idea Group ReferencePlace of publication
Hershey, PAISBN-13
9781591404965ISBN-10
1591404967Language
engPublication classification
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