Title Republic of noise : the loss of solitude in schools and culture / Diana Senechal.

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Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011.

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages)
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Summary	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. The Internet 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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Chapter 1. Introduction: The Chatter of the Present -- Chapter 2. Definitions of Solitude -- Chapter 3. Distraction: The Flip Side of Engagement -- Chapter 4. Antigone: Literature as "Thinking Apart" -- Chapter 5. The Workshop Model in New York City -- Chapter 6. The Folly of the "Big Idea" -- Chapter 7. The Cult of Success -- Chapter 8. Mass Personalization and the "Underground Man" -- Chapter 9. The Need for Loneliness -- Chapter 10. The Practice of Solitude -- Chapter 11. Discernment and the Public Sphere -- Chapter 12. Conclusion: Setting up Shop.
Note	GMD: electronic resource.
Subject	Reflective learning.
	Classroom environment.
	Education -- Effect of technological innovations on.
	Solitude.
	Education -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
	Education -- General.
	Education -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
	FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- General.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
	Social sciences -- In popular culture.
	Education.
	EDUCATION -- Educational Psychology.
	Classroom environment. (OCoLC)fst00863720
	Education -- Effect of technological innovations on. (OCoLC)fst00902618
	Reflective learning. (OCoLC)fst01744211
	Solitude. (OCoLC)fst01125561
Other Form:	Print version: Senechal, Diana. Republic of noise. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, ©2012 9781610484114 (DLC) 2011035358 (OCoLC)744300588
ISBN	9781610484138 (electronic)
	1610484134 (electronic)

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