Let Them Eat Data: How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity, and the Prospects of Ecological Sustainability

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Index Abram, David, 35, 36 Academic community, 120-121; cultural intelligence and, 125; ideology promoted by,55-56,183; knowledge and, 65, 66. Seealso Authority Accountability, 32 Accounting, ecological, 67 Addictions, 66, 177 Advertising, 52-53,99 Agriculture, 6, 50, 165; commodification of, 95; genetic engineering, 52, 68; impacts of technology, 67-68, 178-179; industrial model, 27; traditional, 67, 68,172; water resources and, 51; work force decline, 7;world trade and, 145 Alexander, Richard D., 89 Analogic thinking, 26, 27-28, 33,123, 161 Andean cultures, 67, 144,171-172 Anderson, Edgar, 95 Anthropocentrism, 12,38,128; constructivism and, 148; in cyberspace, 37; of educational software, 137,173; primary socialization and, 157; as root metaphor, 33 Anti-intellectualism, 103 Apache, Western, 38-39, 65 Apffel-Marglin, Frederique, 95 Appiko movement, 53-54 Artificial Intelligence, 79 Assumptions, cultural. See Cultural assumptions Athabascan cultural groups, 42 Authority, 36, 97; of abstract systems of representation, 55-56; of academic knowledge, 174-175; of data, 71; of individual perspective, 34; moral (see Moral systems and relationships); of science, 83-84, 85, 99-107 Automation, costs of, 16-17 Autonomy: heteronomy versus, 147-148; of individual, 32,178; intelligence as attribute of, 151, 152 205 206 Index Basso, Keith H., 12,38 Bateson, Gregory, 30, 70, 74,153-155, 156 Benedikt, Michael, 32-33 Berger, Edward, 181 Berger, John, 32 Berthoud, Gerald, 8-9 Bias, cultural. SeeCultural bias Bigelow, Bill, 133 Bioconservatism, cultural, 57-60 Biological diversity, 3,145 Biology, 78,86-87;biotic community, 32; culture and, 23-24; mechanistic model, 43; Sim software programs and, 172-173 Bioregionalism, 94-95 Birnbaum, Joel, 48 Blair, Tony, 151 Britain, Lory, 147 Bugliarello, George, 81 Cajete, Gregory, 62 Cartesian thinking, 113 Cerf, Vinton, 48 Chaille, Christine, 147 Chiapas, Mexico, 76,144 Child development: autonomous versus heteronomous relations and, 147-148; computers and, 191; constructivism and, 151; language-thought-culture relationships and, 157; socialization in (see Socialization: primary) China, 6,42, 179 Chipko movement, 53-54,144 Civic life, 46, 58,119 Civilization II program, 176 Clark, Mary, 89-90 Clinton, William J., 111-112,151 Cloning, 181 Coevolution, genetic-cultural, 104-105 Colborn, Theo, 51 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,62 Collaboration, 117 Colonialism, intellectual, 93-94 Commerce, electronic, 52,99 Commodification, 10,38,40,93; computers and, 8,41,117-118; cultural bioconservatism and, 58;of education, 120,121; of farming, 95;of knowledge, 188; mentoring versus, 63; of Nature, 128; of social relationships, 74, 98-99,188; oftime, 192-193 Communication, 13,23,42,44; computer-mediated versus nonelectronically mediated, 21-22, 33-34, 36-37; face-to-face, meta-, 8, 38,43,46, 69,150,158; intercultural, 24-25; postsymbolic, 20; print-based, 35. See also Intergenerational communication;Language Communicative competence, 166 Community, 2,45,64-65,166; commodification of, 74; computermediated , 15,28,40,41,46,190-191; education about, 190; as iconic metaphor, 28;knowledge and, 58, 66, 68-69; moral templates and, 37; real versus virtual, 21-22; sensory basis of participation in, 34-35; unemployment and, 17. See also Interdependencies; Social relationships Comparative Area Studies at Duke University, 101 Competition, 86,89,90-91 Computer industry, 112,186. See also Corporations Computers: Cartesian thinking and, 113; cultural characteristics of, 12,15, 22-34,151,152; Industrial Revolution and, 40;evolution metaphor about, 90;futurist views, 20-21,48-49,69, 79-80, 92,97, 99,127; globalizing culture of, 94. Seealso Cyberspace; Data and information Conceptual frameworks, 127,161 Conceptual maps, 155,156,165 Conferences on computer education, 140-142 Consciousness, 20,40-41 Conservatism (political), 51-52 Constructivism, 147-149; cultural transmission and, 150,151; intelligence and, 152; languagethought -culture relationship and, 160; teacher education and, 164; theory, 148-149 Consumerism, 17,49,66,190;as addiction, 66;advertising and, 52-53; computers and, 117,129; cultural Index 207 impact of, 98-99; and ecology, 49-54, 86; e-commerce, 52; education and, 56, 175-176; globalization of, 18, 179; modernization and,6;technology and, 188. See also Western culture Context, 71,168 Contextual knowledge: computermediated learning and, 131, 158; and cultural transmission, 150;and teacher's role, 162,164-165 Convergent cultural change, 78 Conversation, 8, 38, 43, 46, 69, 150,158 Corporations: and education, 114-115, 121-122,195; multinational, 53,55, 97; and technical sector, 143 Cowan, Stuart, 67 Craft knowledge, 7, 70, 193 Creativity, 28, 161 Crick, Francis, 27, 29-30,102...