The authors risk being labelled as Luddites in challenging the "computer literacy" programmes devised largely by the government and directed at education in a bid to equip the young for the future and rescue the economy from recession. The text critically examines the substance of claims that the educational system has an anti-business bias and that computer literacy is the panacea for Britain's economic problems. The relationship that has developed between education, industry and technology is explored; attention is drawn to the political obsessions and illusions that lie behind this new orthodoxy and the possible alternatives are discussed.
- ISBN10 0333429001
- ISBN13 9780333429006
- Publish Date 10 August 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 December 1997
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 336
- Language English