Digital Optimism vs Digital Pessimism

Whatever your views on whether we should be broadly optimistic about the development of digital technologies, such as the Internet and mobile computing, or view

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Media Effects: A New Digital 2-Step?

Of the four main models of media effects that developed predominantly in the latter part of the 20th century and are conventionally taught in a-level

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Education: 4. Role and Function: 2. Marxism and Neo-Marxism

marxism For traditional Marxism the main role and function of education is cultural reproduction – a concept based on a different interpretation of secondary socialisation

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Education: 3. The Purpose of Schools

The final part of the “Structure and Organisation of Education” trilogy (Part 1: Structure and Organisation and Part 2: Schools, Marketisation and Parentocracy are, as

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Education: 2. Schools, Marketisation and Parentocracy

Part 1 of this series looked at a range of general ideas about the structure and organisation of education in our society, through a broadly

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Of Methods and Methodology 6 | 3: Theoretical Research Considerations

Theoretical research considerations – from methodological perspective to questions of reliability and validity – form the third part of the P.E.T. (Practical, Ethical, Theoretical) triumvirate

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Of Methods and Methodology: 4. Postmodernism

A methodology is a framework for research that focuses on how it is possible to collect reliable and valid data about, in this instance, the

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Of Methods and Methodology: 3. Realism

A methodology is a framework for research that focuses on how it is possible to collect reliable and valid data about, in this instance, the

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Of Methods and Methodology: 2. Interpretivism

A methodology is a framework for research that focuses on how it is possible to collect reliable and valid data about, in this instance, the

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Of Methods and Methodology: 1. Positivism

A methodology is a framework for research that focuses on how it is possible to collect reliable and valid data about, in this instance, the

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