Educating the Postmodern Child: The Struggle for Learning in a World of Virtual Realities
Educating the Postmodern Child traces the philosophical challenges posed by children living in an information age. Fiachra Long explores the construction of childhood in today's society arguing that the postmodern child is exposed to the public world before its time and he explores the significance of this public/ private shift.

Issues considered include education, appearance, space, empowerment, globality, tactility, talent, and visibility. After setting the context, each chapter uses a phenomenological approach to describe experiences common across computer-literate children today. Chapters draw on sources in the history of ideas to critique the situation described, provide a rich combination of educational and philosophical theory and apply some speculative concepts to the situation of children.
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Educating the Postmodern Child: The Struggle for Learning in a World of Virtual Realities
Educating the Postmodern Child traces the philosophical challenges posed by children living in an information age. Fiachra Long explores the construction of childhood in today's society arguing that the postmodern child is exposed to the public world before its time and he explores the significance of this public/ private shift.

Issues considered include education, appearance, space, empowerment, globality, tactility, talent, and visibility. After setting the context, each chapter uses a phenomenological approach to describe experiences common across computer-literate children today. Chapters draw on sources in the history of ideas to critique the situation described, provide a rich combination of educational and philosophical theory and apply some speculative concepts to the situation of children.
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Educating the Postmodern Child: The Struggle for Learning in a World of Virtual Realities

Educating the Postmodern Child: The Struggle for Learning in a World of Virtual Realities

by Fiachra Long
Educating the Postmodern Child: The Struggle for Learning in a World of Virtual Realities

Educating the Postmodern Child: The Struggle for Learning in a World of Virtual Realities

by Fiachra Long

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Overview

Educating the Postmodern Child traces the philosophical challenges posed by children living in an information age. Fiachra Long explores the construction of childhood in today's society arguing that the postmodern child is exposed to the public world before its time and he explores the significance of this public/ private shift.

Issues considered include education, appearance, space, empowerment, globality, tactility, talent, and visibility. After setting the context, each chapter uses a phenomenological approach to describe experiences common across computer-literate children today. Chapters draw on sources in the history of ideas to critique the situation described, provide a rich combination of educational and philosophical theory and apply some speculative concepts to the situation of children.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781441132666
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 11/22/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
File size: 273 KB

About the Author

Fiachra Long is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University College Cork, Ireland.
Fiachra Long is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University College Cork, Ireland.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Series Editor Preface
Foreword
Part I: Context
1. Childhood and the Child
2. Child's Play
3. Empowering the Child in Postmodernity
Part II: Appearances
4. The Global Child
5. Talent
6. Tactility
7. Visibility
8. Invisibility
Part III: Education
9. Vapour Trails and Noise
10. The Ambassador's Secret
11. Mind Games and Philosophy
12. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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