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Pedagogy and Media Literacy in Marshall McLuhan’s Electronic Age The Training of Perception

By Panayiotes T. Tryphonopoulos Copyright 2027
246 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines Marshall McLuhan’s work within the evolution of late-1960s progressive education and reappraises his role in the development of cutting-edge pedagogy. By tracing the trajectory of McLuhan’s emerging educational and media ecology philosophy from the 1950s to the late 1970s, this work locates and discusses the roots of an experimental, experiential, collaborative, integrated... Read more

Preface: Marshall McLuhan’s Pedagogical Mosaic Introduction: When Media Become Teachers: McLuhan and the History of Education by Theodore Michael Christou Chapter One: Pedagogy and Media Literacy in McLuhan’s Electronic Age: The Challenges of Progressive Education Chapter Two: McLuhan’s Pedagogical/Media Exploration(s) Chapter Three: The Modernist Project and McLuhan’s Heuristic Mosaic Chapter Four: McLuhan’s “mosaic or field approach” to the Problems of Modern Perception Chapter Five: “Media are ‘ideas’ in Action” OR McLuhan’s Predictions about Learning in the Electronic Age  

Biography

Panayiotes T. Tryphonopoulos is Assistant Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at University of Alberta, Canada.