Description
Book SynopsisDrawing on wide-ranging scholarship in fields as diverse as media ecology and German-language media studies, Foucauldian historiography, and even archaeological research, The Textbook and the Lecture is a fascinating investigation of educational media.
Trade ReviewThrough its multiple examples and case studies,
The Textbook and the Lecture shows the philosophical assumptions underpinning longstanding debates and serves to inform and perhaps even empower educational workers by helping them understand why they do what they do.
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LSEFriesen's book should be attractive to students and instructors of curriculum and instruction as well as instructional designers and educational technology professionals. Educational start-ups and entrepreneurs might fnd it particularly helpful in placing new products in the context of the
longue durée of education history.
—Donald Lankiewicz, Emerson College,
Publishing Research QuarterlyTable of ContentsPreface
Part I
1. No More Pencils, No More Books?
2. Writing Instruction in the Twenty-First Century
Part II
3. Psychology and the Rationalist
4. The Romantic Tradition
5. Romantic versus Rationalist Reform
6. Theorizing Media—by the Book
Part III
7. A Textbook Case
8. From Translatio Studiorum to “Intelligences Thinking in Unison”
9. The Lecture as Postmodern Performance
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
