Educating the Postmodern Child: The Struggle For Learning In A World Of Virtual Realities (Bloomsbury Philosophical Studies in Education) - Softcover

Long, Fiachra

 
9781472572035: Educating the Postmodern Child: The Struggle For Learning In A World Of Virtual Realities (Bloomsbury Philosophical Studies in Education)
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ISBN 10: 1472572033 ISBN 13: 9781472572035
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1472572033
ISBN 13 
9781472572035
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
214

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