Bookends The Changing Media Environment of American Classrooms

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ISBN: 9781572734937

ISBN-10: 1572734930

ISBN-13: 9781572734937

Edition: 2003

Authors: Margaret Cassidy

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This work examines the history of electronic media in education, from film through radio, television, and automated instruction, ending with a look at contemporary educational technology. It relates history to ideas about what schools are for, and how teachers should teach.

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Hampton Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/31/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Progress, Technology, and Education in American History	p. 11
Americans and Progress	p. 12
Americans and Technological Progress	p. 15
Americans, Progress and Public Education	p. 24
Early American Education	p. 25
The Struggle for Common Schools	p. 30
Common Schools After the Civil War	p. 52
Public Education in the 20th Century	p. 55
Conclusion	p. 72
Film	p. 75
Hopes and Plans for Educational Film	p. 76
Sources of Educational Films	p. 90
Factors Preventing the Development of Educational Film	p. 96
Conclusion	p. 111
Radio	p. 113
Hopes and Plans for Educational Radio	p. 116
Educational Radio Projects	p. 123
Factors Preventing the Development of Educational Radio	p. 134
Conclusion	p. 153
Television	p. 155
Origins of Educational and Instructional Television	p. 156
Hopes and Plans for ITV	p. 159
ITV Projects	p. 166
Factors Preventing the Development of ITV	p. 174
Conclusion	p. 186
Automated Instruction	p. 187
Origins of Automated Instruction	p. 188
Application of Automated Instruction to Public Education	p. 196
Factors Preventing the Use of Automated Instruction	p. 209
Conclusion	p. 219
New Media	p. 221
Changes in Educational Psychology and Educational Technology	p. 222
Changes in Educational Policy and Educational Technology	p. 231
Turn of the Century Technological Change and American Public Education	p. 238
Factors Preventing the Use of New Technology in Schools	p. 249
Conclusion	p. 259
Common Themes	p. 261
Ideas and Assumptions About Teachers and Teaching	p. 266
Ideas and Assumptions About Students and Learning	p. 272
Ideas and Assumptions About the Purposes of Schooling, and Who Decides What Those Purposes Will Be	p. 276
Ideas and Assumptions About Technology and Technological Progress	p. 281
Afterword	p. 291
References	p. 299
Author Index	p. 323
Subject Index
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