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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 09:42:04 -0500
From: Sherrie Tingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: C4LDEMOC-L: New Book- TECH HIGH: Globalization and the Future
I am passing on information on this timely book, please share it with your
contacts.
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Sherrie Tingley
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Press release..
ANNOUNCING THE RELEASE OF A NEW BOOK ON CANADA'S EDUCATION SYSTEM
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TECH HIGH: Globalization and the Future of Canadian
Education
Edited by Marita Moll
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"The public policy goal to connect all schools to the
information highway, to use the tools of the new communications
technologies to 'reinvent' education, is the one reform from which, if
universally adopted, there is no retreat."
This warning by Marita Moll, head of research and technology
with the Canadian Teachers' Federation, sets the tone for Tech High:
Globalization and the Future of Canadian Education, a new book that sharply
questions the wisdom of turning our schools into computerized employment
centres for business.
Edited by Moll, the book is a collection of meticulously
researched essays by leading educators who share a deep concern about the
current "restructuring" of Canada's institutions of learning. They examine
the computer craze, the attacks on schools and teachers, the destructive
underfunding of education, and the profit-driven invasion of the classroom
by the rapacious private "education industry."
They trace these and other alarming assaults on public education
to the growing power of transnational corporations, which want students to
be taught how to be compliant workers rather than independent thinkers.
At stake, ultimately, the authors maintain, is the preservation
of democracy itself.
In addition to Moll, the authors include educators Barrie
Barrell of Memorial University in St. John's; Jean-Claude Couture, a high
school teacher in Alberta; Larry Kuehn, director of research and technology
for the B.C. Teachers' Federation; David Livingstone of the Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education; Alison Taylor of the University of
Alberta; Charles Ungerleider of the Faculty of Education at U.B.C.; and
Langdon Winner of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
"This unique collection of essays firmly establishes the link
between an 'anytime, anywhere, at-any-cost' devotion to information
technology in schools and the 'at-any-price' agenda of corporate power,"
says Heather-jane Robertson, co-author of Class Warfare: The Assault on
Canada's Schools.
The book, a 223-page trade paperback, is co-published by the
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Fernwood Publishing, and sells
for $19.95. Copies may be obtained from either of the co-publishers.
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Erika Shaker
CCPA Education Project
804-251 Laurier Ave. W.
Ottawa, ON
K1P-5J6
Tel (613) 563-1341, Fax (613) 233-1458
http://www.policyalternatives.ca
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