History of Education and Technologies of Communication

A tantárgy neve magyarul / Name of the subject in Hungarian: Tanulástörténet és kommunikációtechnika

Last updated: 2013. március 12.

Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
Course ID Semester Assessment Credit Tantárgyfélév
GT51A017   1/1/0/f 2  
3. Course coordinator and department Dr. Benedek András,
4. Instructors Prof. Kristóf Nyíri
5. Required knowledge •    Pre-history: the language of gestures; cave paintings; the culture of primary orality
•    The Greek origins of Western education: alphabetic literacy and the philosophy of Plato
•    Medieval culture: the decline and rebirth of literacy; religious orders; universities in the Middle Ages
•    A social history of timekeeping: from natural time to the mechanical clock
•    Image and word: woodcuts, etchings, photography. Pictorial meaning and word-meaning
•    The printing press; early-modern school systems; the new concept of childhood; modern science and modern libraries
•    Telegraphy, telephony, radio broadcasting: the beginnings of secondary orality. Comics: a new integration of image and word. John Dewey's philosophy of education and communication
•    The epistemology and pedagogy of film; new iconic culture
•    The end of the Gutenberg Galaxy: from Hajnal to McLuhan
•    The internet. Secondary literacy: e-mail and web-based communication
•    Education and learning in the Information Society: networked knowledge, e-learning
•    The Mobile Information Society. M-learning. New meanings of space and time

7. Objectives, learning outcomes and obtained knowledge Students should gain a heightened awareness of the cultural significance of long-term changes in the history of technologies of communication. The course will describe how in any historical age institutions of education and learning were moulded by the dominant information and communication technologies, and how these technologies, building on each other and becoming merged with each other, are synchronously present in the life-world of the 21st century
14. Required learning hours and assignment
Kontakt óra 14
Félévközi készülés órákra 10
Felkészülés zárthelyire -
Házi feladat elkészítése 10
Kijelölt írásos tananyag elsajátítása 16
Vizsgafelkészülés -
Összesen 50