How Computers Entered the Classroom 1960-2000 : Historical Perspectives

In the history of education, the question of how computers were introduced into European classrooms has so far been largely neglected. This edited volume strives to address this gap. The contributions shed light on the computerization of general education from a historical perspective, by looking cl...

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Main Authors: Flury, Carmen, Geiss, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2023
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Edition:1
Series:Studies in the History of Education and Culture / Studien zur Bildungs- und Kulturgeschichte
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ISBN:3110780143, 9783110780147, 9783110779592, 9783110780284, 3110779595, 3110780283
ISSN:2748-9531
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Table of Contents -- Computers in Europe's Classrooms: An Introduction -- Part I: Case Studies -- Informatique pour tous, France 1985: Pedagogy, Industry and Politics -- How Computers Entered the Classroom in Hungary: A Long Journey from the Late 1950s into the 1980s -- Computers in the Classrooms of an Authoritarian Country: The Case of Soviet Latvia (1980s-1991) -- Teachers Translating and Circumventing the Computer in Lower and Upper Secondary Swedish Schools in the 1970s and 1980s -- Joining Forces: The Promotion of Public-Private Partnerships to Bring Computers into West German Schools in the 1980s -- Computer Education in Switzerland: Politics and Markets in a Highly Decentralized Country -- Part II: Trans- and Supranational Perspectives -- Entangled Media Ecologies: The Nexus of Education and Mass Communication from the Perspective of UNESCO (1945-1989) -- Beyond the Classroom: Economic Policies and the Past Futures of Education and Training in the European Community, 1970-2000 -- Defuturization Machines: The OECD's Early Efforts to Plan the Computerized Future of Education -- Contributors
  • Clémence Cardon-Quint --
  • Carmen Flury --
  • Beyond the Classroom: Economic Policies and the Past Futures of Education and Training in the European Community, 1970–2000
  • Computer Education in Switzerland: Politics and Markets in a Highly Decentralized Country
  • Lajos Somogyvári, Máté Szabó, Gábor Képes --
  • Computers in Europe’s Classrooms: An Introduction
  • Part I: Case Studies --
  • Table of Contents --
  • Entangled Media Ecologies: The Nexus of Education and Mass Communication from the Perspective of UNESCO (1945–1989)
  • Contributors
  • Informatique pour tous, France 1985: Pedagogy, Industry and Politics
  • Part II: Trans- and Supranational Perspectives --
  • Michael Geiss, Carmen Flury, Rosalía Guerrero --
  • Defuturization Machines: The OECD’s Early Efforts to Plan the Computerized Future of Education
  • Computers in the Classrooms of an Authoritarian Country: The Case of Soviet Latvia (1980s–1991)
  • Teachers Translating and Circumventing the Computer in Lower and Upper Secondary Swedish Schools in the 1970s and 1980s
  • Joining Forces: The Promotion of Public-Private Partnerships to Bring Computers into West German Schools in the 1980s
  • Carmen Flury, Michael Geiss --
  • Karin Priem --
  • Iveta Kestere, Katrina Elizabete Purina-Bieza --
  • Barbara Hof --
  • How Computers Entered the Classroom in Hungary: A Long Journey from the Late 1950s into the 1980s
  • Frontmatter --
  • Rosalía Guerrero Cantarell --
  • Michael Geiss --