Document Type
Article
Abstract
In the last century, teachers have come under pressure to incorporate new media technologies into their lessons. Comparing educational research, press coverage, and teachers' firsthand accounts of mediated instruction between 1919 and 1946, this article highlights a historic discrepancy between anticipated and actual uses of media in classrooms. Drawing on de Certeau's theory of “making do,” the author argues that teachers' efforts to balance high technologies with simpler, more do-it-yourself varieties of media in their lessons constituted critical forms of participation in educational media culture and small acts of resistance against industrial, top-down efforts to streamline, modernize, and technologize their work.
Publication Date
10-2015
Recommended Citation
Good, Katie Day, "Making do with media: teachers, technology, and tactics of media use in American classrooms, 1919–1946" (2015). University Faculty Publications and Creative Works. 1020.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/calvin_facultypubs/1020