The New Social Disease

From High Tech Depersonalization to Survival of the Soul

Ronald S. Laura, Tim Marchant, Susen R. Smith (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

198 Seiten

2008
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-4121-0 (ISBN)

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Highly technological machines are invading our lives and separating us from personal relationships. The balance between the use of technology for human advantage and developing valued human relationships has yet to equal, and we continue to subject ourselves to a rapidly growing sense of depersonalization. The New Social Disease is about how we personalize our computers and associated technologies while depersonalizing others and ourselves. The well-researched content will provide readers with insights into how the increased use of technology-mediated communications has affected the way in which we live our lives, resulting in loneliness, depression, social isolation, and ultimately a rise in uncivil behaviors based upon frustration hopelessness and the devaluation of human life. Authors Laura, Marchant, and Smith explore the prevalence of uncivil behaviors in the world and in our schools, combined with increased physical and mental health problems, in an aim to explore the depersonalization of the school curriculum and provide ways to repersonalize education contexts.

Ronald S. Laura is Professor of Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia and a Perc Fellow of Harvard University. Timothy Marchant is a K-6 teacher in the Hunter Region. Susen R. Smith is Lecturer in Education at the University of New England, Australia.

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Acknowledgements
Chapter 4 Introduction: High Tech Depersonalization: Has Technology Stolen Your Soul?
Chapter 5 1: Technological Connections: Are You Too Plugged In?
Chapter 6 2: Technological Texturing of the Modern World
Chapter 7 3: Technologization of Education
Chapter 8 4: Depersonalization and the Internet
Chapter 9 5: Incivility
Chapter 10 6: Exploring the Implications of Depersonalization for Mental Health
Chapter 11 7: Hidden Dangers: The Physical Impacts
Chapter 12 8: Educational and Social Ramifications of Computer-Based Temporality
Chapter 13 9: Reconceptualizing Knowledge as Connectivity, Expresses Empathetically
Chapter 14 10: Towards a Better Life: Survival of the Soul
Chapter 15 Bibliography
Chapter 16 Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.9.2008
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	299 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung ► Unterrichts-Handreichungen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	0-7618-4121-0 / 0761841210
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-4121-0 / 9780761841210
Zustand	Neuware