Siddiqi, Asif A. (Author)
This essay explores the origins of the Satellite Instructional Technology Experiment (SITE), a project that used a NASA satellite to beam educational programs to over two thousand villages in India in the mid-1970s. Touted as a major success in using advanced technology for the purposes of poverty alleviation, the results of the project remain contested. I argue that the causes of its ambiguous outcome can be traced to the late 1960s when Indian and American scientific elites mobilized support for this project by uniting a coalition of diverse actors that each imagined a different ‘India’. Although each of these ‘Indias’ represented a starkly different vision of the nation, they were consonant for a brief historical moment, thus enabling SITE to come to reality. Their ability to do so depended on framing as monolithic and passive, the one population central to the project, the ‘poor and illiterate’ of India.
...MoreArticle Gisela Mateos; Edna Suárez-Díaz (2020) Development interventions: science, technology and technical assistance. History and Technology (pp. 293-309).
Article
D’alto, Nick;
(Summer 2007)
A few words about this picture: The Inflatable Satellite
(/isis/citation/CBB605219522/)
Article
Charles R. Acland;
(April 2017)
American AV: Edgar Dale and the Information Age Classroom
(/isis/citation/CBB321716852/)
Book
Christo Sims;
(2017)
Disruptive Fixation: School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism
(/isis/citation/CBB988165276/)
Article
Good, Katie Day;
(January 2019)
Sight-Seeing in School: Visual Technology, Virtual Experience, and World Citizenship in American Education, 1900–1930
(/isis/citation/CBB237213197/)
Thesis
Maharaj, Doraisamy Ashok;
(2011)
Space for Development: US-Indian Space Relations 1955--1976
(/isis/citation/CBB001567301/)
Article
Jenifer Barton;
(2021)
‘We were shot down!’: Earth observing satellites, data surveillance, and NASA’s 1982 Global Habitability initiative
(/isis/citation/CBB700781642/)
Article
Jenifer Barton;
(2023)
Branding the Earth: Selling Earth system science in the United States, 1983-1988
(/isis/citation/CBB688522039/)
Book
Guruprasad Madhavan;
(2015)
Applied Minds: How Engineers Think
(/isis/citation/CBB039314283/)
Article
Baraniuk, Richard G.;
(Summer 2013)
Opening Education
(/isis/citation/CBB457362651/)
Article
Willcox, Karen E.;
Klopfer, Eric;
Miller, Haynes R.;
(Fall 2016)
Open Educational Resources: Past, Present, and Future
(/isis/citation/CBB568788184/)
Chapter
Javid, M.;
(1999)
Symbiotic model for a working cyberschool: the tentative findings of a two-year case study
(/isis/citation/CBB775636199/)
Article
Joseba De la Torre;
Maria del Mar Rubio-Varas;
(Spring 2018)
Learning by Doing: The First Spanish Nuclear Plant
(/isis/citation/CBB020294165/)
Book
Victoria Cain;
(2021)
Schools and Screens: A Watchful History
(/isis/citation/CBB066062419/)
Article
Jones, T.D.;
(Fall 2008)
Mercury Rising
(/isis/citation/CBB761888464/)
Book
Crouch, Tom D.;
(1990)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(/isis/citation/CBB001180701/)
Article
Lambright, W. Henry;
Schaefer, Agnes Schaefer;
(2004)
The Political Context of Technology Transfer: NASA and the International Space Station
(/isis/citation/CBB037432863/)
Book
Brian C. Odom;
Waring, Stephen P.;
(2019)
NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement
(/isis/citation/CBB430573888/)
Article
Launius, Roger D.;
(2004)
Notes from the Field: NASA and the International Space Station
(/isis/citation/CBB164739943/)
Article
Grosvenor, E.S.;
(Fall 2008)
NASA Turns 50
(/isis/citation/CBB097874615/)
Review
Allen, Kera Jones;
(2017)
Review of "Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race"
(/isis/citation/CBB084734115/)
Be the first to comment!