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The Textbook and the Lecture : Education in the Age of New Media /

"In this era of technological and cultural disruption in higher education, Norman Friesen turns the question around: Why is higher education apparently so little changed in our era of digital media? Is their obstinate persistence evidence of resilience or of obsolescence? Answers to these quest...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Friesen, Norm (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : Education as technological from the start. Part I : Education and media, new and old. No more pencils, no more books?
  • Writing instruction in the twenty-first century : 2000 BCE versus 2000 CE
  • Part II : Media, psychology, and theory. Psychology and the rationalist "transcript of the mind"
  • The romantic tradition : "a cry of nature"
  • Romantic versus rationalist reform
  • Theorizing media--by the book
  • Part III : The textbook and the lecture : re-forming the book and performing the text. A textbook case
  • From Translatio Studiorum to "intelligences thinking in unison"
  • The lecture as postmodern performance
  • Conclusion : educations and generations.