PHD Program:
Education, History and Policy
Major Publications:
Projects include books titled Technology, Religion, Spirituality and the Sacred, Techontologies: The Critical Ontology of Media and Technology, Twentieth Century Learning, and Education, Medicine, and the Psy-ences. This fourth book includes a major article titled “Medical Liberty” published in the December 2008 issue of the Journal of Medical Humanities. Recent major articles or chapters include an analysis of the critique of critique (a la Latour and Ranciere) in The New Critiquette and Old Scholactivism: A Petit Critique of Academic Manners, Managers, Matters, and Freedom and an entirely new paradigm for new media and technologies in "Postliterate Machineries." This latest chapter basically spells the end of new literacies. Dr. Petrina has also published a popular textbook titled Advanced Teaching Methods for the Technology Classroom (2007) and a collection of essays on the critical theory of design and technology education. Recent articles appear in the History of Education Quarterly (e.g., "Preschools for Science," award winning article with Penney Clark and Mona Gleason), History of Psychology, Technology and Culture and the International Journal of Technology and Design Education.
Membership in Academic Societies:
4S, Canadian Society for the Study of Education; American Educational Research Association
Courses Taught:
Cultural and New Media Studies
Technology, Rights and the Public Interest
Technology Studies: Seminar on Latour
Foundations of Educational Techology
