Educating the postmodern child : the struggle for learning in a world of virtual realities / Fiachra Long.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Long, Fiachra, author.

Series:

Continuum philosophical studies in education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Social conditions.

Children.

Postmodernism.

Problem children--Education.

Problem children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Childhood and the child

Child's play

Empowering the child in postmodernity

The global child

Talent

Tactility

Visibility

Invisibility

Vapour trails and noise

The ambassador's secret

Mind games and philosophy

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472552891

147255289X

9781441132666

144113266X

9781283853415

1283853418

9781441125422

1441125426

OCLC:

821178787