Educational Technology and Pedagogic Encounters

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Educational Theory and Technology.- Introduction.- Towards a Deleuzo-Guattarian Notion of Educational Technology.- Towards a Rancièrean Notion of Educational Technology.- Towards an Agambenian Notion of Educational Technology.- Educational Technology as a Democratic Practice.- Summary.- Educational Technology and the Enactment of Democratic Change.- Introduction.- Mobile Phones.- Social Computing.- Impediments that Make Educational Technology Unattractive for Use in Pedagogic Relations.- Towards a Transformative View of Educational Technology and Its Pedagogic Implications.- Summary.- Pedagogic Encounters in Educational Technology: Towards a Democratic Education of Co-Belonging.- Introduction.- Case 1: On the Possibility of Democratic Education In/Through Educational Technology: Action Research and Science Education in Potentiality.- Case 2: On the Possibility of Democratic Education In/Through Educational Technology: Critical Discourse Analysis and Economics Education in Potentiality.- The Potentialities of the Students and Description of the Films.- Democratic Education in Potentiality: Towards an Expansive View of Risk Taking in Pedagogic Encounters.- Introduction.- Learners Construct Personal Learning Contexts.- Learning as Initiation into Individual Autonomy.- Equalising Deliberative Pedagogic Relationships.- Becoming Rhizomatic in Their Thinking.- Democratic Education in Potentiality: Cultivating an Expansive View of Risk Taking.- On the Potentialities of Practising Educational Technology in Educational Institutions: Expanding Risk Taking in Pedagogic Encounters.- Introduction.- Enhancing Rhizomatic Thinking.- Privileging Trust and Humour.- Democratising or Equalising Classrooms.- Establishing Inclusive Social Justice Interventions.- Enhancing Socially Just Teaching and Learning.- Summary.- Educational Technology and Socially Just Pedagogic Encounters.- Introduction.- Instances of Education for Social Justice.- Education for Social Justice through Equity.- Summary.- References.- Biographical Notes of Authors.- Index.