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Upon What Does the Turtle Stand?

Rethinking Education for the Digital Age

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Editors:
  1. Aharon Aviram

    1. Center for Futurism in Education, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel

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  2. Janice Richardson

    1. eLuxembourg Task Force, Luxembourg

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Aharon Aviram, Janice Richardson
      Pages 1-24

  4. The Reformists

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. The Turtle Stands on an Emerging Educational Paradigm

      • Willem J. Pelgrum, Tjeerd Plomp
      Pages 53-68

    3. Portable Computing Challenges Schooling

      • C. Paul Newhouse
      Pages 69-92

    4. Thus Spake Venitia

      • Robert Bibeau
      Pages 93-119

    5. Professional Development for Teachers and Quality in School Education

      • Nikitas Kastis
      Pages 121-134

    6. Literacy, or the Art of Integration

      • Janice Richardson
      Pages 135-149

  5. The Humanists

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Recreation

      • Daniel Deberghes
      Pages 153-157

    3. What Kind of Technologies for What Kind of Education?

      • Juana M. Sancho
      Pages 159-175

    4. Policy, Practice and the’ space’ in Between

      • Rosemary Naughton
      Pages 177-190

    5. Why Should Children go to School?

      • Aharon Aviram
      Pages 191-220

    6. Digital Inclusion in Brazil

      • Pedro Roberto Jacobi
      Pages 221-229

    7. Towards a New Canon in Education

      • Wiktor Kulerski, Terry Ryan
      Pages 231-238

  6. The Heretic

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239
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    2. Visions, Values, Technologies and Schools

      • Jim Dator
      Pages 241-250
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Futurism in Education, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel

    Aharon Aviram

  • eLuxembourg Task Force, Luxembourg

    Janice Richardson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Upon What Does the Turtle Stand?

  • Book Subtitle: Rethinking Education for the Digital Age

  • Editors: Aharon Aviram, Janice Richardson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2799-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2798-7Published: 29 September 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6723-4Published: 19 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2799-4Published: 06 March 2006

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 256

  • Topics: Education, general, Educational Technology, Educational Philosophy

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