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Springer Upon What Does The Turtle Stand? Rethinking Education For The Digital Age 2004 Edition by Aharon Aviram Janice Richardson
This book brings together the reflections of independent researchers from around the world. Sixteen authors from fourteen countries present their views on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in education offering valuable insights through the examination of current issues relevant to the future of education. What will education be in tomorrow's world? How can ICT be used without rendering education a purely technical process? How can we succeed the renovation of educational subjects without transforming them into technical objects? The introductory chapter of this publication guides us into the essays through a classification organized by the editors to illustrate different attitudes to technologies: * The 'Globalizers' see the integration of ICT and education as a means of enhancing the competitiveness of their society in a global economy; * The 'Reformists' see it as a means of bringing about significant change in didactics in the various disciplines and even in the 'basics' of education; * The 'Humanists' consider technologies as possible catalysts for changing the aims and values of education from learni- oriented to humanistic; * The 'Heretic' sees values and aims as being determined exclusively by technology and economy and culture as s- products of the technology-guided process. He therefore does not see any sense in interrogations as to which aims should guide us in integrating technology with education. Obviously some arguments stretch across all four categories without completely matching any so-called type. Table of contents : Table of Contents List of Contributors Foreword; Viviane Reding Prologue; Walt Tremer Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: The Globalizers.- ICT-in-Education Policies and Implementation in Singapore and Other Asian Countries; Chee-Kit Looi and W.L. David Hung.- Confronting the Challenge of the Information and Knowledge Society in Developing Countries; Najat Rochdi.- Part Two: The Reformists.- The Turtle Stands on the Basis of an Emerging Educational Paradigm; Willem J. Pelgrum and Tjeerd Plomp.- Portable Computing Challenges Schooling ; C. Paul Newhouse.- Thus Spake Venitia*; Robert Bibeau.- Professional Development for Teachers and Quality in School Education; Nikitas Kastis.- Literacy or the Art of Integration; Janice Richardson.- Part Three: The Humanists.- Recreation; Daniel Deberghes*.- What Kind of Technologies for What Kind of Education?; Juana M. Sancho.- Policy Practice and the 'Space' in Between; Rosemary Naughton.- Why Should Children Go to School?; Aharon Aviram.- Digital Inclusion in Brazil; Pedro Roberto Jacobi.- Towards a New Canon in Education; Wiktor Kulerski and Terry Ryan.- Part Four: The Heretic.- Visions Values Technologies and Schools; Jim Dator.- About the Contributors.