EDTEC 795B

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EDTEC 795B

• Major Trends

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Historic Shift

• Pre-modern
• Modern
• Post-modern

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Pre-modern society

• Solo worker
• Craft work
• Personal capitalization

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Modern Society

• Division of labor
• Industrialization/Standardization
• Market capitalization

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Post-modernism

• Cottage industries
• Micro businesses
• Mass customization
• Personalization and differentiation
• Micro loans

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Globalization

• Traditional societies
• Pre-modernism
• Gods will
• Modernism
• Mans will
• Postmodernism
• The continental view
• Crisis of meaning/Nihilism
• American Pragmatism
• Resolving dichotomies

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1850-1914

• Collapse of absolute monarchy in Europe
• Terrorism
• Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand first
  in line to the Austro-Hungarian throne in
  Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia
• Onset of World War I

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1945

• Bipolar world
• US VS USSR
• Under-developed countries
• Developed countries
• Centralized economies
• Market economies
• Centralized governance
• Democratic governance
• East VS West

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Underdeveloped Countries

• Pre-modern
• Science
• Gods will
• Observing and exploring nature
• Technology
• Non-invasive
• Non-interventional
• Teaching operant conditioning in a pre-modern
  society!

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Developed Countries

• Modern
• Mans will
• Science
• Controlling nature
• Technology
• Invasive
• Interventionist

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Impact of Modernism on Pre-Modern Societies

• Pre-modern societies were scientific and
  technological societies
• China, India, Persia, Egypt
• science and technology
• Astrology, Algebra, Alchemy, Medicine

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Renascence

• Success of modern science in the west
• Decline of pre-modern societies

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East VS West

• Centralized economies
• Market economies
• Centralized governance
• Democratic governance

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East Meets West

• Cold War (USSR/US)
• Hot war USSR/US proxy wars in the third world

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Multiculturalism

• Your culture (all cultures) is as valid as any
  other culture
• Radio Moscow, Circa 1960
• Science and technology are western imports
  imposed on the people of the third world

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Current Scene

• Terrorism
• The elephant in the room
• Western innovation
• Montage economy
• Indigenous science and technology
• Democracy
• Market economy
• Reconciliation of Man VS God controversy

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Introduction of Democracy

• Why the US has not been successful?