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The Child and the Machine: How Computers Put Our Children’s Education at Risk

February 5th, 2010

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The United States spends $6.5 billion on educational technology (1998 – 99), yet children’s educational performance remains stagnant. The Child and the Machine shows how our rush to use computers has led to the most expensive and least helpful revolution in the history of education.Amazon.com Review
The number of computers in schools more than doubled during the 1990s, while government and corporate initiatives to wire schools for Net access has been agg… More >>

The Child and the Machine: How Computers Put Our Children’s Education at Risk

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Barefoot Irreverence: A Collection of Writings on Gifted Child Education

January 22nd, 2010

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For more than 25 years, Jim Delisle, Ph.D., consistently has been one of the most unique and influential voices in gifted education. Never afraid to question longstanding orthodoxies and speak out on controversial issues, Delisle also is notable for his empathetic and compassionate views on the many difficulties faced by gifted youth.

For the first time, his most popular writings from the past two decades have been compiled into one volume. Barefoot Irreveren… More >>

Barefoot Irreverence: A Collection of Writings on Gifted Child Education

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The Child in the World/The World in the Child: Education and the Configuration of a Universal, Modern, and Globalized Childhood

January 21st, 2010

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In this collection, the contributors look at the current spread of universalizing discourses concerning young children across the globe, examining the way these discourses, which purport to describe everyone in a scientific and neutral way, actually create mechanisms through which children are divided and excluded. The contributors to this book employ post-structuralist, postcolonial, and feminist theoretical frameworks.
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The Child in the World/The World in the Child: Education and the Configuration of a Universal, Modern, and Globalized Childhood

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