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The Technical Fix

Education, Computers and Industry

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  • © 1989
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Authors:
  1. Kevin Robins
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  2. Frank Webster
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Kevin Robins, Frank Webster
      Pages 1-8

  3. The Myth of the Machine

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Technological Futures and the Technical Fix

      • Kevin Robins, Frank Webster
      Pages 11-32

    3. The Origins of the Information Society

      • Kevin Robins, Frank Webster
      Pages 33-68

    4. Recession and Restructuring

      • Kevin Robins, Frank Webster
      Pages 69-99

  4. The Industrialisation of Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Education, Utopia and Crisis

      • Kevin Robins, Frank Webster
      Pages 103-140

    3. The English Disease?

      • Kevin Robins, Frank Webster
      Pages 141-169

    4. Education for what Jobs?

      • Kevin Robins, Frank Webster
      Pages 170-200

    5. The New Disciplines

      • Kevin Robins, Frank Webster
      Pages 201-230

  5. Beyond Technocracy?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231
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    2. The Military Project

      • Kevin Robins, Frank Webster
      Pages 233-255

    3. The Technocratic Condition, or Schools Cannot Teach what Society does not know

      • Kevin Robins, Frank Webster
      Pages 256-276

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 277-322
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This book critically examines the substance of claims that the educational system has an anti-business bias and that computer literacy is the panacea for Britain's economic problems. The authors explore the relationship that has developed between education, industry and technology, point to the political obsessions and illusions that lie behind this new orthodoxy and discuss the possible alternatives.

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