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Streepjes op je hoofd: het maatschappelijk gebruik van automatisering
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ISBN: 9061842352 Year: 1984 Publisher: Amersfoort De Horstink

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La tête bien faite : repenser la réforme, réformer la pensée
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ISBN: 2020375036 9782020375030 Year: 1999 Publisher: Paris: Seuil,

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20 jaar kennismanagement : het wat, waarom en de richtlijnen
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ISBN: 9789046564752 Year: 2014 Volume: 2014-2 Publisher: Mechelen Kluwer


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Kennismanagement : projecten, tools en technieken
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ISBN: 9789046564950 Year: 2014 Volume: 2014-4 Publisher: Mechelen Kluwer


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Waarden in de Westerse Wereld: een internationale exploratie van de waarden in de westerse samenleving.
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ISBN: 9036195640 9789036195645 Year: 1991 Publisher: Tilburg,


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Too big to know : rethinking knowledge now that the facts aren't the facts, experts are everywhere, and the smartest person in the room is the room
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ISBN: 9780465021420 9780465028139 0465021425 0465028136 9780465085965 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Basic Books


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Wetenschap vandaag voor de maatschappij van morgen: een essay over het wetenschapsbeleid
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ISBN: 9020903659 Year: 1970 Publisher: Tielt Lannoo


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The false promises of the digital revolution : how computers transform education, work, and international development in ways that are ecologically unsustainable
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ISSN: 10581634 ISBN: 9781433126123 9781433126130 1433126125 1433126133 9781453912959 1453912959 Year: 2014 Volume: 469 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Peter Lang,

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The False Promises of the Digital Revolution examines what currently goes largely unnoticed because of the many important uses of digital technologies. While many people interpret digital technologies as accelerating the global rate of progress, C. A. Bowers focuses attention on how they reinforce the deep and ecologically problematic cultural assumptions of the West: the myth of progress, the substitution of data for different cultural traditions of wisdom, the connections between print and abstract thinking, the myth of individual autonomy, the conduit view of language that hides how words (metaphors) reproduce earlier misconceptions, and a Social Darwinian justification for colonizing other cultures that is now leading to armed resistance - which, in turn, strengthens the ties between corporations, the military, and the computer science industry. The book also investigates how to understand the cultural non-neutrality of digital technologies; how print and the emphasis on data undermine awareness of the tacit information pathways between cultural and natural ecologies; and how to identify educational reforms that will contribute to a more informed public about the uses of digital technologies. «C. A. Bowers skillfully demolishes the myth that computers are always beneficial, benign, and culturally neutral. He convincingly shows how and why the abstractions of digital reality exacerbate the ecological crisis, and opens a space for rebuilding the living connections and ecological intelligence necessary for our continuing survival.» (Arran Stibbe, Reader in Ecological Linguistics, University of Gloucestershire, Great Britain) «C. A. Bowers is one of few scholars who has tried to awaken computer scientists and technologists to the myths, misconceptions, and silences that contribute to the modern obsession with the development and globalization of digital technologies. Besides clarifying how the twin myths of cultural neutrality and global progress undermine ecologically sustainable cultural practices, the book contains suggestions for introducing students to the cultural transforming nature of digital technologies. This book should not be missed by computer scientists, ecologists, and educators.» (Shih-yu Kuo, Professor, Institute of European and American Studies, Sinica, Taiwan) «This book offers a potent indictment of the current globalizing of online educational programs as cultural genocide that is, at the same time, ecologically suicidal. For those of us in the global South who believe in education as the nurturance of the cultural commons, Bowers' exemplary contribution is his engaged attitude of dialogue with other traditions of knowledge, which makes his book a source of inspiration in our own search for pertinence in education.» (Jorge Ishizawa, Co-Director, Proyecto Andino de Tecnologías Campesinas (PRATEC), Peru) «No one has taught me more about the link between the ecological crisis and education than C. A. Bowers. When so many educators regarded computers as the newest pedagogical savior, Bowers was asking the hard questions. Bowers continues to peel away the shiny packaging of 'progress' and the myths of the new digital age. I'm delighted that Bowers is still challenging us to evaluate the 'false promises of the digital revolution.' We need this analysis now more than ever.» (Bill Bigelow, Editor, 'Rethinking Schools') «The False Promises of the Digital Revolution is a powerful critique of the dangers inherent in the globalization of digital technologies. This revolution has not only engendered a marginalization and colonization of other cultures and systems of intelligibility that are necessary for civil and ecological sustainability, but has contributed to the loss of languages and cultures that cannot be appropriated through digitalization. As we enter an ominous 'post-biological' era of technological development, Bowers' message cannot be ignored. Bowers' new work is a prescient warning that should be heeded by all those committed to the survival of the planet, which I presume is all of us. A remarkable work of critical scholarship that demands all of our attention.» (Peter McLaren, Distinguished Fellow in Critical Studies, Chapman University and Professor, University of California, Los Angeles; Author of 'Che Guevara, Paulo Freire and Pedagogy of Revolution')


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La liberté de chercher : Histoire du Fonds national de la recherche scientifique
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ISBN: 9782874560385 2874560383 Year: 2007 Publisher: Liège Editions de l'Université

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