Category Archives: education
young people: victims, criminals… red herring
While reading Walter Lippmann’s “A Preface to Politics” my attention was mainly drawn to his discussion of the red herring. The red herring — a metaphor used to describe the obfuscation of, or distraction from, a particular object(ive) — is portrayed by Lippmann (1913, p261) as both “pest” and “benefit,” as a political maneuver which [...]
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to catch a predator
Back in 2002, a school system in Tennessee paid Edutech Inc. a reported $131,590 to install CCTV surveillance cameras in its 7 schools. In at least one of these schools, the cameras were installed in the locker rooms. The recordings of 10-14 year-old boys and girls, which were produced from this covert surveillance, were stored [...]
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a reading list: exploring theory and practice
Embracing the so called ‘cybercity’ as a specific unit of analysis, my second doctoral exam reading list will explore how processes of education and citizen participation are transmuted by the cybercity and how these transmuted processes in turn produce and reproduce the cybercity. In order for this exploration to begin clarification must first be achieved [...]
a research blog: open source, open process.
This research blog has been setup to assist me in preparing for my second doctoral exam. This blog will hopefully afford me a space where the scholarly content of my reading list can interact with popular culture as well as my thoughts and experiences. In addition, this blog will help semantically organize the information I’ll [...]
NML (2.0?) :: The future of our blog
This post has been imported from the NML Research Blog… Lately I’ve been trying to resist the trend of slapping “2.0″ on to the end of everything, but I couldn’t help myself this time. 2.0 or Web 2.0, as many of you may know, is a term developed by the folks over at O’rielly (read [...]
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child’s play in the NCLB era