Education and Its Discontents

Education and Its Discontents: Teaching, the Humanities, and the Importance of a Liberal Education in the Age of Mass Information, by Mark Moss, is an exploration of how the traditional educational environment, particularly in the post-secondary world, is changing as a consequence of the influx of new technology. Students now have access to myriad of technologies that instead of supplementing the educational process, have actually taken it over. Faculty who do not adapt face enormous obstacles, and those who do adapt run the risk of eroding the integrity of what they have been trained to teach. Moss discusses that it is now not only how we learn, but what we continue to teach, and how that enormously important legacy is protected.

Mark Moss is chair of general arts and science in the Faculty of Business at Seneca College in Toronto, Ontario.

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter One: Black Board Jungles Chapter 3 Chapter Two: That's Just Too Much Information Chapter 4 Chapter Three: "It Isn't What It Used To Be" Chapter 5 Chapter Four: Streaming Video? Chapter 6 Chapter Five: The Sanctity of the Educational Space Chapter 7 Chapter Six: "What, No Overhead?" Chapter 8 Chapter Seven: Rethinking Censorship in an Age of Desensitization Chapter 9 Chapter Eight: "Where Do I Go? Why Am I Here?" Chapter 10 Chapter Nine: Selected Notes on the History of Higher Education Chapter 11 Chapter Ten: High School Confidential Chapter 12 Chapter Eleven: Why Computers and Web-Based Technology are Good Chapter 13 Conclusion