Defuturization Machines: The OECD’s Early Efforts to Plan the Computerized Future of Education

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Computers in Europe’s Classrooms: An Introduction 1
4. Part I: Case Studies
5. Informatique pour tous, France 1985: Pedagogy, Industry and Politics 15
6. How Computers Entered the Classroom in Hungary: A Long Journey from the Late 1950s into the 1980s 39
7. Computers in the Classrooms of an Authoritarian Country: The Case of Soviet Latvia (1980s–1991) 75
8. Teachers Translating and Circumventing the Computer in Lower and Upper Secondary Swedish Schools in the 1970s and 1980s 99
9. Joining Forces: The Promotion of Public-Private Partnerships to Bring Computers into West German Schools in the 1980s 123
10. Computer Education in Switzerland: Politics and Markets in a Highly Decentralized Country 147
11. Part II: Trans- and Supranational Perspectives
12. Entangled Media Ecologies: The Nexus of Education and Mass Communication from the Perspective of UNESCO (1945–1989) 173
13. Beyond the Classroom: Economic Policies and the Past Futures of Education and Training in the European Community, 1970–2000 191
14. Defuturization Machines: The OECD’s Early Efforts to Plan the Computerized Future of Education 217
15. Contributors 239