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Teachers and Machines: The Classroom Use of Technology Since 1920reviewed by Stephen T. Kerr - 1987 Title: Teachers and Machines: The Classroom Use of Technology Since 1920 Author(s): Larry Cuban Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 080772792X, Pages: , Year: 1986 Search for book at Amazon.com Teachers and Machines is an intriguing and subtle book. At first glance the author, associate professor of educational administration at Stanford University, might be taken to have written about the use (or lack of it) of new technological modes of delivering instruction in American classrooms during the past sixty-plus years. In fact, while doing this, he also invites us to question larger and more significant assumptionsassumptions about whether teaching is an art or a science, about the feasibility of centrally administering change in teaching, and about the possibility and desirability of changing educational institutions over the short run.
Cuban begins with a puzzled observation about the introduction of several new technologies (film, radio, television) into American schools since 1920: Why, given considerable popular interest, administrative enthusiasm, and significant amounts of capital investment, did these approaches gain only limited support from classroom teachers? From this general concern flow the three related questions... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Stephen Kerr
University of Washington, Seattle
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