Fabian Grütter
Biographic Data
| ID | 6233441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fabian Grütter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fabian |
| FAMILY NAME | Grütter |
| SIGNATURE | GRÜTTER F |
| AFFILIATIONS | ETH Zürich Professur für Wissenschaftsforschung Clausiusstr. 59 CH-8092 Zürich |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Smaky school computer. Technology and education in the ruins of Switzerland’s watch industry, 1973–1997
This article analyzes the development, commercialization and demise of the Smaky school computer in French-speaking, Western Switzerland between 1973 and 1997. By examining archival material, I consider the connections between this locally assembled and used school computer, and the globally embedded economic developments during the period of investigation. I argue that, historically, the Smaky was both a product of and a response to the region’s…
After Mainframes: Computer Education and Microcomputers in Western Switzerland during the 1980s and 1990s
This article analyses the developments in computer education in French-speaking Western Switzerland in the 1980s and 1990s.It investigates how computer education changed with the arrival of microcomputers, who the agents of these changes were, and with what sociopolitical and economic developments these pedagogical changes interacted.By analysing archival material from five cantonal departments of education and from Raymond Morel (at the time, We…
Nach dem Wissen: Wissenschaft zwischen Deregulation und Restauration
After Knowledge: Science, Deregulation, and Restoration . In the light of recent phenomena and developments – from ‘alternative facts’ to the rise of the ‘New Right’ –, the notion that we live in a ‘knowledge society’ (which has served our discipline well over the last couple of decades) seems more than a little antiquated. Our present, or so it would seem, is determined by forces other than ‘knowledge’ or, for that matter ‘science’. By the same …
Brennpunkt „reading animal“. Hermann Cohn und die Genese der Lesehygiene
Focal Point “Reading Animal”. Hermann Cohn and the Emergence of the Fin de Siècle Hygiene of Reading . From the 1860s onward, ‘eye experts’ increasingly fretted the alleged surge of myopia attributed to an increase of reading matter circulating in schools. In order to avert the inauspicious prospects, revised school desks designed to prevent children from becoming myopic were introduced. During the 1880s, said experts turned to printed matter, ma…
Nach dem Wissen: Wissenschaft zwischen Deregulation und Restauration
After Knowledge: Science, Deregulation, and Restoration . In the light of recent phenomena and developments – from ‘alternative facts’ to the rise of the ‘New Right’ –, the notion that we live in a ‘knowledge society’ (which has served our discipline well over the last couple of decades) seems more than a little antiquated. Our present, or so it would seem, is determined by forces other than ‘knowledge’ or, for that matter ‘science’. By the same …
Brennpunkt „reading animal“. Hermann Cohn und die Genese der Lesehygiene
Focal Point “Reading Animal”. Hermann Cohn and the Emergence of the Fin de Siècle Hygiene of Reading . From the 1860s onward, ‘eye experts’ increasingly fretted the alleged surge of myopia attributed to an increase of reading matter circulating in schools. In order to avert the inauspicious prospects, revised school desks designed to prevent children from becoming myopic were introduced. During the 1880s, said experts turned to printed matter, ma…
Nach dem Wissen: Wissenschaft zwischen Deregulation und Restauration
After Knowledge: Science, Deregulation, and Restoration . In the light of recent phenomena and developments – from ‘alternative facts’ to the rise of the ‘New Right’ –, the notion that we live in a ‘knowledge society’ (which has served our discipline well over the last couple of decades) seems more than a little antiquated. Our present, or so it would seem, is determined by forces other than ‘knowledge’ or, for that matter ‘science’. By the same …
The Smaky school computer. Technology and education in the ruins of Switzerland’s watch industry, 1973–1997
This article analyzes the development, commercialization and demise of the Smaky school computer in French-speaking, Western Switzerland between 1973 and 1997. By examining archival material, I consider the connections between this locally assembled and used school computer, and the globally embedded economic developments during the period of investigation. I argue that, historically, the Smaky was both a product of and a response to the region’s…
After Mainframes: Computer Education and Microcomputers in Western Switzerland during the 1980s and 1990s
This article analyses the developments in computer education in French-speaking Western Switzerland in the 1980s and 1990s.It investigates how computer education changed with the arrival of microcomputers, who the agents of these changes were, and with what sociopolitical and economic developments these pedagogical changes interacted.By analysing archival material from five cantonal departments of education and from Raymond Morel (at the time, We…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Commercialization (1 works)