Victoria E M Cain
Biographic Data
| ID | 9409370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria E M Cain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria E M |
| FAMILY NAME | Cain |
| SIGNATURE | CAIN V E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads
In this monthly column, Kappan authors discuss books and articles that have informed their views on education. Victoria Cain recommends The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Nicholas Lemann. Nancy Gutiérrez recommends Subtractve Schooling: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring. And Justin Reich recommends the Sociology of Education article, “Comment: The first and second digital divides” by Paul Attewell
A history of technological hype
Education leaders frequently turn to technological solutions to improve schools, often without evidence of their effectiveness. According to Victoria Cain and Adam Laats, this pattern of leaders pouring money into new technological systems and then being disappointed in the results goes back centuries. They describe how, in the early 1800s, Lancastrian schoolrooms captured the public imagination and how, in the 1950s and ‘60s, were seen as a solu…
‘The Direct Medium of the Vision’: Visual Education, Virtual Witnessing and the Prehistoric Past at the American Museum of Natural History, 1890-1923
In the early 20th century, artists and administrators at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History relied upon the tools of visual education to help visitors ‘virtually witness’ the prehistoric past. This decision to reconstruct a world no one had ever seen aroused hot debate among the museum’s staff. Reconstructions forced the museum’s scientists, artists and administrators to decide whether emotional, scientific or artistic truths were…
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‘The Direct Medium of the Vision’: Visual Education, Virtual Witnessing and the Prehistoric Past at the American Museum of Natural History, 1890-1923
In the early 20th century, artists and administrators at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History relied upon the tools of visual education to help visitors ‘virtually witness’ the prehistoric past. This decision to reconstruct a world no one had ever seen aroused hot debate among the museum’s staff. Reconstructions forced the museum’s scientists, artists and administrators to decide whether emotional, scientific or artistic truths were…
Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads
In this monthly column, Kappan authors discuss books and articles that have informed their views on education. Victoria Cain recommends The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Nicholas Lemann. Nancy Gutiérrez recommends Subtractve Schooling: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring. And Justin Reich recommends the Sociology of Education article, “Comment: The first and second digital divides” by Paul Attewell
A history of technological hype
Education leaders frequently turn to technological solutions to improve schools, often without evidence of their effectiveness. According to Victoria Cain and Adam Laats, this pattern of leaders pouring money into new technological systems and then being disappointed in the results goes back centuries. They describe how, in the early 1800s, Lancastrian schoolrooms captured the public imagination and how, in the 1950s and ‘60s, were seen as a solu…
Political science (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Column (typography) (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (1 works)