Education: Recommended Books

Introduction: Origins -- Repair as food for the soul -- Aiming for good enough -- Feeling safe to make a mess -- Stopping the blame game -- Resilience reconsidered -- Games we play: learning to belong -- Technology and the still-face paradigm -- When meaning goes awry -- Healing in a mosaic of moments over time -- Finding hope in uncertainty -- Through discord to connection and belonging

"What does the future hold for digital technology and education? What can be learnt from the history of technology use in education? Does digital technology make education more individualized? Will it eventually replace the school, university and teacher? In a thoroughly revised edition of this successful book, Neil Selwyn takes a critical look at some of the major current debates and controversies concerning digital technologies and education

How can new ways of thinking about education improve the lives of poor students? In Rethinking Education and Poverty, William G. Tierney brings together scholars from around the world to examine the complex relationship between poverty and education in the twenty-first century. International in scope, this book assembles the best contemporary thinking about how education can mediate class and improve the lives of marginalized individuals. In remarkably nuanced ways, this volume examines education's role as both a possible factor in perpetuating--and a tool for alleviating--entrenched poverty.