Reflections on the History of Computers in Education

1. Front Matter

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2. Lessons from the Great Underground Empire: Pedagogy, Computers and False Dawn

   • Stewart Martin

   Pages 1-25

3. No One Is Born a Global Citizen: Using New Technologies to Bring ‘Other Stories’ into the Classroom

   • Alnaaz Kassam

   Pages 26-47

4. Learning Along with Your Students: Projects from the Graduate Diploma of Computer Education

   • John S. Murnane

   Pages 48-70

5. Introduction of Computers in Primary Schools in Norway – From Experiments to Implementation

   • Sindre Røsvik

   Pages 71-82

6. Information Literacy in the Netherlands: Rise, Fall and Revival

   • Joke Voogt, Alfons ten Brummelhuis

   Pages 83-93

7. From Student Geek to Teacher Geek Chic – Reflections on How Computers Were Used while as a Student and then as a Teacher

   • Therese Keane

   Pages 94-109

8. Whatever You Do . . . . Don’t Put the Computer Room Near the Maths Department! or, I Was an Early Adopter, an Enthusiastic Disseminator, But Now . . .

   • David Demant

   Pages 110-120

9. The Beginnings of Computer Use in Primary and Secondary Education in Spain

   • Javier Osorio, Julia Nieves

   Pages 121-130

10. Early Uses of Computers in Schools in the United Kingdom: Shaping Factors and Influencing Directions

    • Don Passey

    Pages 131-149

11. Theoretical and Epistemological Foundations of Integrating Digital Technologies in Education in the Second Half of the 20th Century

    • Eva Dakich

    Pages 150-163

12. The Introduction of Computers in Irish Schools

    • Denise Leahy, Dudley Dolan

    Pages 164-173

13. The Rise of Information and Communication Technology Era in the Israeli Educational System

    • Ben-Zion Barta, Liora Shapiro, Daniel Millin, Ephraim Engel

    Pages 174-196

14. The Hopes and Realities of the Computer as a School Administration and School Management Tool

    • Rory Butler, Adrie Visscher

    Pages 197-202

15. Computers in Schools in the USA: A Social History

    • Kevin R. Parker, Bill Davey

    Pages 203-211

16. The Dutch Situation: An Ever Continuing Story

    • Bert Zwaneveld, Victor Schmidt

    Pages 212-238

17. Computers in Education in Finland

    • Jari Koivisto

    Pages 239-245

18. Schools, Students, Computers and Curriculum in Victoria in the 1970s and 1980s

    • Arthur Tatnall

    Pages 246-265

19. The First 25 Years of Computers in Education in Poland: 1965 – 1990

    • Maciej M. Sysło

    Pages 266-290

20. Catching the Bug: Pupils and Punched Cards in South Africa in the Late 1970s

    • Martin S. Olivier

    Pages 291-301

This book is a collection of refereed invited papers on the history of computing in education from the 1970s to the mid-1990s presenting a social history of the introduction and early use of computers in schools. The 30 papers deal with the introduction of computer in schools in many countries around the world: Norway, South Africa, UK, Canada, Australia, USA, Finland, Chile, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Ireland, Israel and Poland. The authors are not professional historians but rather people who as teachers, students or researchers were involved in this history and they narrate their experiences from a personal perspective offering fascinating stories.

• computer education
• computers in schools
• information literacy
• primary schools
• secondary education
• students

From the book reviews:

“If you are interested in the subject of the evolution of teaching about computing subjects in schools at all levels, and in all fields, this book is essential reading. … This book is a collection of personal recollections of experiences by its guest authors of what happened in their respective countries when the subject of teaching using computers was first broached.” (R. L. Glass, Computing Reviews, July, 2014)

• Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

  Arthur Tatnall

• RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

  Bill Davey

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