Upon What Does the Turtle Stand? Rethinking Education for the Digital Age /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Aviram, Aharon (Editor), Richardson, Janice (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Subjects: Education.; Educational technology.; Education > Philosophy.; Education, general.; Educational Technology.; Educational Philosophy.

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 rele...

Table of Contents:

• The Globalizers
• ICT-in-Education Policies and Implementation in Singapore and Other Asian Countries
• Confronting the Challenge of the Information and Knowledge Society in Developing Countries
• The Reformists
• The Turtle Stands on an Emerging Educational Paradigm
• Portable Computing Challenges Schooling
• Thus Spake Venitia
• Professional Development for Teachers and Quality in School Education
• Literacy, or the Art of Integration
• The Humanists
• Recreation
• What Kind of Technologies for What Kind of Education?
• Policy, Practice and the’ space’ in Between
• Why Should Children go to School?
• Digital Inclusion in Brazil
• Towards a New Canon in Education
• The Heretic
• Visions, Values, Technologies and Schools.