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Automation and education

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An attempt has been made in this paper to describe automation, both as an industrial process involving flow and control and as an intellectual system involving planning and decision-making. General effects on education in the areas of curriculum and program of studies, administration, general education, organization for instruction, the necessity for teaching new patterns of thinking, vocational and technical education were discussed. The concept of the possibility of automatizing the instructional process itself was introduced, and the outlines of a new content for education as a discipline were suggested. The following paper will deal with the problem of automatizing instruction through audio-visual means, and the third and last paper in the series will consider the dangers and difficulties involved in such a process.

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  1. University of Southern California, USA

    James D. Finn (Professor of Education and Educational Consultant for “Teaching Tools” and “Film World” Magazines)

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This is the first in a series of three articles that will discuss one of the most important and timely problems that educators face today-the effects of automation upon education.

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Finn, J.D. Automation and education. AVCR 5, 343–360 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02861013

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