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<h3>Biographical highlights</h3> | <h3>Biographical highlights</h3> | ||
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:Robbie McClintock<br> | |||
:4 Green Leaf Court<br> | :4 Green Leaf Court<br> | ||
:Princeton, NJ, 08540-5046<br> | :Princeton, NJ, 08540-5046<br> | ||
:(646) 464-4531 (phone & text)<br> | :(646) 464-4531 (phone & text)<br> | ||
:rom2@tc.columbia.edu ( | :rom2@tc.columbia.edu (or) | ||
:robbie@aplacetostudy.org</div> | |||
<ul><li>Born in 1939 in New York City, I did well in good schools—Buckley (1948-53), Deerfield Academy (1953-57), Princeton (1957-61), Columbia (MA 1963, PhD 1968) — forming an interest in cultural history in relation to educational theory and practice.</li> | <ul><li>Born in 1939 in New York City, I did well in good schools—Buckley (1948-53), Deerfield Academy (1953-57), Princeton (1957-61), Columbia (MA 1963, PhD 1968) — forming an interest in cultural history in relation to educational theory and practice.</li> | ||
<li>I had a long professorial career: Johns Hopkins (1965-67), Teachers College, Columbia (assist 1967-71, assoc 1971-81, full 1981-2001, chair 2001-11, and emeritus 2011-on). Two key concerns on which I professed: <i>Educators should pay close attention to the work of major past thinkers</i> (e.g., Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Dante, Erasmus, Montaigne, Bacon, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Goethe, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Weber); <i>media and communications as agents of change in education and culture</i>. </li> | <li>I had a long professorial career: Johns Hopkins (1965-67), Teachers College, Columbia (assist 1967-71, assoc 1971-81, full 1981-2001, chair 2001-11, and emeritus 2011-on). Two key concerns on which I professed: <i>Educators should pay close attention to the work of major past thinkers</i> (e.g., Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Dante, Erasmus, Montaigne, Bacon, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Goethe, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Weber); <i>media and communications as agents of change in education and culture</i>. </li> | ||
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<li>I have had sustained roles in academic governance, particularly with respect to technology and education, as Chair of the Department of Communication, Computing, and Technology in Education at TC (1982-2002), as head of the Coordinating Committee on the PhD in Education at Columbia (1996-2011), and as one of the organizers and a member of its Board of Directors for the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning. </li> | <li>I have had sustained roles in academic governance, particularly with respect to technology and education, as Chair of the Department of Communication, Computing, and Technology in Education at TC (1982-2002), as head of the Coordinating Committee on the PhD in Education at Columbia (1996-2011), and as one of the organizers and a member of its Board of Directors for the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning. </li> | ||
<li>Over the span of my career, I have expressed my ideas and concerns in diverse texts. In them, I have dealt with many topics, drawing on an extensive intellectual background. As a writer, I aspire to be clear and engaging while respecting the complexity and difficulty of the matters I address. I think we live in a culture in which we vastly overproduce cultural materials and consume them with a serious deficiency of attention. I feel a responsibility to resist those conditions by writing for readers who will pay close attention to texts they believe will have importance over an extended period.</li></ul> | <li>Over the span of my career, I have expressed my ideas and concerns in diverse texts. In them, I have dealt with many topics, drawing on an extensive intellectual background. As a writer, I aspire to be clear and engaging while respecting the complexity and difficulty of the matters I address. I think we live in a culture in which we vastly overproduce cultural materials and consume them with a serious deficiency of attention. I feel a responsibility to resist those conditions by writing for readers who will pay close attention to texts they believe will have importance over an extended period.</li></ul> | ||
<p>Here | <p>Here's a selection of my writing with links to the full texts.</p> | ||
<ul><li>"Machines and Vitalists: Reflections on the Ideology of Cybernetics," <i>The American Scholar</i> (35:2, Spring 1966, pp. 249-58). [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1966_machines_and_vitalists.pdf Link]). A heady start, this essay came out in a special issue on "The Electronic Revolution" along with contributions by Marshall McLuhan, R. Buckminster Fuller, Lynn White, Jr., Jacob Bronowski, Herbert A. Simon, Richard Hoggart, and so on. I made a point about human intelligence that's still relevant to the gush of wonder about AI. </li> | <ul><li>"Machines and Vitalists: Reflections on the Ideology of Cybernetics," <i>The American Scholar</i> (35:2, Spring 1966, pp. 249-58). [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1966_machines_and_vitalists.pdf Link]). A heady start, this essay came out in a special issue on "The Electronic Revolution" along with contributions by Marshall McLuhan, R. Buckminster Fuller, Lynn White, Jr., Jacob Bronowski, Herbert A. Simon, Richard Hoggart, and so on. I made a point about human intelligence that's still relevant to the gush of wonder about AI. </li> | ||
<li><i>Man and His Circumstances: Ortega as Educator</i> (New York: Teachers College Press, 1971, xviii, 649 pp. [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1971_man_circumstances_all.pdf Link]) A full intellectual biography of the Spanish thinker, José Ortega y Gasset. The book culminated my studies of Ortega from 1960 to 1971 and it was named the "Outstanding Education Book of 1971" by <i>School and Society</i>." </li> | <li><i>Man and His Circumstances: Ortega as Educator</i> (New York: Teachers College Press, 1971, xviii, 649 pp. [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1971_man_circumstances_all.pdf Link]) A full intellectual biography of the Spanish thinker, José Ortega y Gasset. The book culminated my studies of Ortega from 1960 to 1971 and it was named the "Outstanding Education Book of 1971" by <i>School and Society</i>." </li> | ||
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<li>"The Dynamics of Decline: Why Education Can No Longer Be Liberal" <i>Phi Delta Kappan</i> (60:9, May 1979, pp. 636–640). [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1979_dynamics_decline_education.pdf Link]). It gave my version of how and why liberal education has weakened. </li> | <li>"The Dynamics of Decline: Why Education Can No Longer Be Liberal" <i>Phi Delta Kappan</i> (60:9, May 1979, pp. 636–640). [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1979_dynamics_decline_education.pdf Link]). It gave my version of how and why liberal education has weakened. </li> | ||
<li>"Into the Starting Gate: On Computing and the Curriculum." <i>Teachers College Record</i> (88:2, Winter 1986, pp. 191–215). [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1986_starting_gate_mcclintock.pdf Link]). I asked whether and how, where, when, and why interacting with cultural resources in digital form would have different constraints and affordances than interacting with material resources. <i>The Digital Campus</i>will essentially revisit this concern 40 years later. </li> | <li>"Into the Starting Gate: On Computing and the Curriculum." <i>Teachers College Record</i> (88:2, Winter 1986, pp. 191–215). [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1986_starting_gate_mcclintock.pdf Link]). I asked whether and how, where, when, and why interacting with cultural resources in digital form would have different constraints and affordances than interacting with material resources. <i>The Digital Campus</i>will essentially revisit this concern 40 years later. </li> | ||
<li>From 1986 to 2001, I worked | <li>From 1986 to 2001, I worked on developing large-scale projects to demonstrate how networked multimedia communications could enable a humane transformation in the spectrum of educational possibilities.</li> | ||
<div style="margin-left: 0.16in";><li> | <div style="margin-left: 0.16in";><li>In 1990, a major proposal to IBM, <i>The Cumulative Curriculum: Multi-Media and the Making of a New Educational System</i>, requested $5.4 million plus equipment over 5 years ([https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1991_cumulative_curriculul_proposal.pdf Link]). Over 6 months and many meetings, IBM internally vetted this proposal favorably but then stopped it and all other external commitments owing to a serious downturn in its business. The failed proposal had a significant rationale and a productive afterlife, however.</li> | ||
<li>I | <li>I explained the ideas behind it in an eBook, <i>Power and Pedagogy: Transforming Education through Information Technology</i> (Institute for Learning Technologies, 1992, [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1992_power_and_pedagogy.pdf Link]).</li> | ||
<li>A private donor funded a part of the IBM proposal as the Dalton Technology Plan ($3.4 million, 1991-94 | <li>A private donor funded a part of the IBM proposal as the Dalton Technology Plan ($3.4 million, 1991-94, [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1992-Risk-and-Renewal-McClintock-et-al.pdf Link]), that drew considerable public attention.</li> | ||
<li>In turn, that work became the springboard for <i>The Eiffel Project: New York City's Small Schools Partnership Technology Learning Challenge</i> ([https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1996-The-Eiffel-Project.pdf Link]), which won a national Challenge Grant for a 5-year, $7.1 million project, | <li>In turn, that work became the springboard for <i>The Eiffel Project: New York City's Small Schools Partnership Technology Learning Challenge</i> ([https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1996-The-Eiffel-Project.pdf Link]), which won a national Challenge Grant for a 5-year, $7.1 million project, amplified with $11 million in matching effort. Work through it established sophisticated local area networks in and among selected schools throughout NYC (1996-2000).</li> | ||
<li>Finally (1998-2001), the NYC Board of | <li>Finally (1998-2001), the NYC Board of Education’s Taskforce on Teaching and Learning in Cyberspace advanced a huge project (circa $11 <i>billion</i>) to create a city-wide network and equip all NYC students and teachers, grades 4-12, with specially designed laptops for use at home and school. I wrote the pedagogical rationale for it, <i>Smart Cities, New York: Electronic Education for the New Millennium</i> (ILT, [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/2000_smart_cities_new_york_full.pdf Link]). The Board issued an RFP and two coalitions of major computer, publishing, and consulting companies formed and swiftly vanished among the financial expectations destroyed by the dotcom crisis.</li></ul> | ||
<p><i>Smart Cities </i>was wildly ahead of its time. Sobered, I stopped writing proposals and turned back to reflective themes of pedagogical thought and practice.</p> | <p><i>Smart Cities </i>was wildly ahead of its time. Sobered, I stopped writing proposals and turned back to reflective themes of pedagogical thought and practice.</p> | ||
<ul><li><i>Homeless in the House of Intellect: Formative Justice and Education as an Academic Study</i> (New York: Laboratory for Liberal Learning, 2005, 111 pp. [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/2005_homeless_intellect.pdf Link]). How might the study of education, if situated among the arts and sciences, differ from its study in professional schools?</li> | <ul><li><i>Homeless in the House of Intellect: Formative Justice and Education as an Academic Study</i> (New York: Laboratory for Liberal Learning, 2005, 111 pp. [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/2005_homeless_intellect.pdf Link]). How might the study of education, if situated among the arts and sciences, differ from its study in professional schools?</li> | ||