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Volume 39, Numbers 3 & 4, 2000
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Emergent Design and learning environments: Building on indigenous knowledge - References
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D. Cavallo |
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Cited references and notes
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D. Cavallo, Technological Fluency and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Emergent Design of Learning Environments, Ph.D. thesis, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA (2000).
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D. Tyack and L. Cuban, Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA (1995).
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Ibid., p. 85.
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In the case of this work, the principles of the learning environment include constructionism, technological fluency, computer immersion, long-term projects, learner-centered activities, and connected projects. Later in this section I will provide a brief description of each concept. While it is beyond the scope of this paper to delve into detail for each, the sense of the work will emerge through the description here.
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P. Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Herder and Herder, New York (1972).
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J. Dewey, Experience and Education, Collier Books, New York (1938).
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The Essential Piaget, H. E. Gruber and J. J. Voneche, Editors, Basic Books, New York (1977).
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S. Papert, Computer Criticism vs. Technocentric Thinking, E&L Memo #1, Epistemology and Learning Group, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA (1990).
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R. K. Lester, The Productive Edge: How U.S. Industries Are Pointing the Way to a New Era of Economic Growth, W. W. Norton & Company, New York (1998).
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F. W. Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management, Dover Publications, New York (1998).
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S. Papert, “Introduction,” Constructionism, S. Papert and I. Harel, Editors, Ablex Publishing Corporation, Norwood, NJ (1991).
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I. Harel, Children Designers: Interdisciplinary Constructions for Learning and Knowing Mathematics in a Computer-Rich School, Ablex Publishing Corporation, Norwood, NJ (1991).
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Constructionism in Practice: Designing Thinking and Learning in a Digital World, Y. Kafai and M. Resnick, Editors, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ (1996).
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D. Cavallo, Leveraging Learning Through Technological Fluency, master's thesis, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA (1996).
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M. Resnick, A. Bruckman, and F. Martin, “Pianos, Not Stereos: Creating Computational Construction Kits,” Interactions 3, No. 6 (1996).
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D. Cavallo, “New Initiatives in Youth Development: Technology Works Enterprises,” International Conference on the Learning Sciences, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ (1996), pp. 913.
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S. Papert and M. Resnick, Technological Fluency and the Representation of Knowledge, proposal to the National Science Foundation, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA (1995).
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I am adopting the convention of capitalizing the word “School” when referring to School as an institution containing the prevailing mind-set around organization, process, learning, and teaching.
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The Suksapattana Foundation was created by Thai MIT alumni in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the King of Thailand's ascension to the throne. They procured funding and coordinated a number of socially beneficial projects in honor of His Majesty the King of Thailand.
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Office of the National Education Commission, Education in Thailand 1998, Office of the Prime Minister, Kingdom of Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand (1999).
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This paper will only describe some of the activity within one village learning center. For more detail, please see Reference 1, above.
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The New York Times (January 21, 1997).
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J. Sachs, J. L. Gallup, and A. Mellinger, Geography and Economic Development, presented at the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, July 1998, World Bank Group (1998).
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While I do not have strong evidence for this belief, I base this statement on a number of conversations with villagers and others who worked with them.
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I mean this in the original, positive sense of “hacking” where the term signifies informal and creative engineering expertise, and not someone practicing malicious destruction.
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This is the term in use in Thailand and so I adopt it, but prefer the idea of “indigenous technology” as it is respectful and not pejorative.
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S. Phongsupasamit and J. Sakai, “Studies on Engineering Design Theories of Hand-Tractor Ploughs,” Proceedings of the Eleventh International Congress on Agricultural Engineering, Dublin (1989), pp. 16171626.
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S. Papert, Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas, Basic Books, New York (1980).
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C. Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind, University of Chicago Press, Chicago (1966).
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