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Living the Stories We Create

Preparing Students for the Digital Age
SpringerBriefs in Education

von: Ellen McCabe
53,49 €
Verlag:	Springer
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	14.08.2018
ISBN/EAN:	9783319957982
Sprache:	englisch

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Titelbeschreibung

This work explores the potential of digital media to rectify the disparity between formal learning contexts and contemporary perceptions and expectations of narrative. How can education systems respond to the changing technological landscape, thus preparing students to become active participants in society as well as to realise the extent of their own potential? This book explores such concepts in the classroom environment through direct engagement with students and teachers with the case of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Written in approximately 1606, Macbeth has its roots in a culture of orality and yet has sustained through centuries of print dominance. Indeed, as both text and performance the work itself embodies both the literary and the oral. Yet as a staple of many second level curricula increasingly Macbeth is perceived as an educational text. Macbeth reflects its cultural moment, an age of ambiguity where much like today notions of selfhood, privacy, societal structures, media and economy were being called into question. Thus Macbeth can be understood as a microcosm of the challenges existing in contemporary education in both content and form. This book examines Macbeth as a case-study in seeking to explore the implications of digital media for learning, as well as its possible potential to constructively facilitate in realigning formal learning contexts to contemporary experiences of narrative.<p></p> <p> </p>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- World Making and Media.- Macbeth and the Leaving Cert.- The Otherness of Education.-  Invention and Intervention: Reimagining Educational Paradigms.- Digital Storytelling Response.- Conclusion.<div><br><div><p></p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>

Autorenportrait

Ellen McCabe holds a PhD in Digital Arts and Humanities from the Huston School of Film and Digital Media at the National University of Ireland Galway. Her research explores the ways in which technology informs narratives and storytelling and the implications of this for education. 

Sonderbeitrag

Considers the reciprocal relationship between technology, narrative and education Locates the rise of the digital in the context of historical media developments Asks how can education respond to the broad social implications of the relationship between our compulsion to create and describe our world and role of media Contextualizes, through the Macbeth case study, how new learning approaches transect with the challenges of the digital world and the potential of digital resources Argues for the necessity of a complete re-evaluation of what it means to be knowledgeable, to be literate, to teach and to learn Recommends implementation strategies at systemic and classroom levels for teachers and policy makers for these educational and curricular changes