Republic of Noise - The Loss of Solitude in Schools and Culture

"In this book, Diana Senechal confronts a culture that has come to depend on instant updates and communication at the expense of solitude. Schools today emphasize rapid group work and fragmented activity, not the thoughtful study of complex subjects. TheInternet offers contact with others throughout the day and night; we lose the ability to be apart, even in our minds. Yet solitude plays an essential role in literature, education, democracy, relationships, and matters of conscience. Throughout its analyses and argument, the book calls not for drastic changes but for a subtle shift: an attitude that honors solitude without descending into dogma"-- Provided by publisher.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Chatter of the Present
Definitions of Solitude
Distraction: The Flip Side of Engagement
Antigone: Literature as "Thinking Apart"
The Workshop Model in New York City
The Folly of the "Big Idea"
The Cult of Success
Mass Personalization and the "Underground Man"
The Need for Loneliness
The Practice of Solitude
Discernment and the Public Sphere
Conclusion: Setting up Shop
Bibliography
About the Author
Index

About the author

Diana Senechal is an educator and author whose writing has appeared in The New Republic,Education Week,American Educator, and The New York Times. Senechal is the 2011 winner of the Hiett Prize and the author of Republic of Noise: The Loss of Solitude in Schools and Culture (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2012), which was a Choice Outstanding Academic title.

Product details

• Authors: Diana Senechal, Senechal Diana
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.03.2014
• EAN: 9781610484121
• ISBN: 978-1-61048-412-1
• No. of pages: 286
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Education, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Philosophy and theory of education, Educational strategies and policy