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Reflections on the History of Computers in Education

Early Use of Computers and Teaching about Computing in Schools

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Editors:
  1. Arthur Tatnall

    1. Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Bill Davey

    1. RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Provides personal reflections on the history of computers in school education in many countries all over the world
  • Covers a relatively recent period from the 1970s up to the mid 1990s, before the widespread use of the Internet, search engines, social web and mobile devices in education
  • All papers went through a careful peer-review process before final acceptance

Part of the book series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIPAICT)

Part of the book sub series: IFIP AICT Surveys (ISURVEYS)

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  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
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About this book

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.

Reviews

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“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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

    Arthur Tatnall

  • RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Bill Davey

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reflections on the History of Computers in Education

  • Book Subtitle: Early Use of Computers and Teaching about Computing in Schools

  • Editors: Arthur Tatnall, Bill Davey

  • Series Title: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55119-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-55118-5Published: 07 May 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52570-8Published: 03 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-55119-2Published: 05 May 2014

  • Series ISSN: 1868-4238

  • Series E-ISSN: 1868-422X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 423

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Computers and Education, History of Computing, Computer Science, general

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