Preparation for Life: The Paradox of Education in the Late Twentieth Century - Hardcover

Burstyn J

9781850001027: Preparation for Life: The Paradox of Education in the Late Twentieth Century

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1850001022 ISBN 13: 9781850001027

Publisher: Falmer Press, 1986

1986, hardcover edition, Falmer Press (published simultaneously in the U.K. and Philadelphia). 208 pages. Notes at the end of each essay. Here is an unusual title that deals with something most current indeed. With technical changes, education has to be revitalized to meet the intellectual, moral and social changes of a new technology. The essays here point out that often educators have been slow to respond to the significance of modern technology. Essays on: education in the past and how it failed its citizens; the objectives of English studies today and who they benefit; does liberal arts have a place in modern society; the challenge to education from new technology; and much more.

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