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Leaving School: Finding Education

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These guys are way out front of the education establishment. The book will not be well received by those in power.

I actually had Dr. Wiles as my professor last year while attending UNF for my Master's. The book leaves a lot to be desired like the class itself. Virtual School is the way it pushes but with unreal expectations.

Much like Lewis Pearlman's Schools Out, this is another discussion about education reform that does not adequately account for the problems with the "framework" of modernism. Philosophically, modernism has been on the defensive if not defeated for years, but in general, the academia associated with the field of education lags behind in recognizing and articulating alternative post modern views. The book suggests that we further embrace the central role of technology as a solution for our education system. Technology can play an important peripheral role, but the role of schools as a physical part of community and as communities themselves needs to grow not recede to impoverished severed internet based experiences with limited real social contexts. One of the books authors is from the University of Montana, the same University as Dr. Albert Borgman (Philosophy of Technology). It would serve the authors to read some of Borgman's writing (Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life or Crossing the Postmodern Divide). It might lend additional philosophical depth and recognition of some of the complex problems in our culture with our relationship to technology.