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Sight-Seeing in School: Visual Technology, Virtual Experience, and World Citizenship in American Education, 1900–1930 (January 2019)

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Education Utopias Educational technology Citizenship 20th century United States

This article argues that the influx of media technologies into schools between 1900 and 1930 was facilitated by an emergent techno-utopian rhetoric in American culture that placed new social value on the acquisition of virtual and worldly experience. Against a backdrop of rising immigration, global visual culture, and American intervention in foreign affairs, the burgeoning educational technology industry—including producers of stereographs, slides, and National Geographic magazine—made inroads into schools by endowing technology with the capacity to "bring the world to the pupil" and serve as a substitute for travel. Aligning with progressive reformers, boosters of early educational technology highlighted these products as tools for teaching ambiguous ideals of citizenship that emphasized the simultaneous cultivation of international understanding and loyal patriotism among youth. This article thus provides a critical historical perspective for present-day discussions about the importance of global citizenship and mediated learning in an age of ubiquitous technology and globalization.

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Authors & Contributors
Willcox, Karen E.
Miller, Haynes R.
Acland, Charles R.
Anderson, David Leech
Buente, Wayne
Cain, Victoria
Journals
The Bridge: Journal of the National Academy of Engineering
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
History and Technology
History of Education
Humanities and Technology Review
Publishers
Routledge
IEEE
MIT Press
Princeton University Press
The MIT Press
Madrid OEI, Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura
Concepts
Education
Educational technology
Computers and computing
Primary and secondary education
Educational change
Information technology
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
United States
Berlin (Germany)
India
Israel
Soviet Union
New York (U.S.)
Institutions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
India Space Research Organization (ISRO)
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