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After Mainframes: Computer Education and Microcomputers in Western Switzerland during the 1980s and 1990s.

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Title: After Mainframes: Computer Education and Microcomputers in Western Switzerland during the 1980s and 1990s.
Authors: Grütter, Fabian1 fabian.gruetter@phzh.ch
Source: History of Education. May2024, Vol. 53 Issue 3, p558-578. 21p.
Subject Terms: *Computer training, *Educational technology, Personal computers, Mainframe computers, History of computers
Geographic Terms: Switzerland
Abstract: 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, Western Switzerland's most influential educational IT expert), it is argued that computer education in Western Switzerland's general education experienced three shifts. First, education with computers displaced education about computers in the first half of the 1980s. Second, from the mid-1980s onwards, office applications became central. Third, computer education morphed into telecommunications education around 1990. The paper contributes to the historiography of local school computers and computer education. It adds comment on the "glocal" histories of computers, which shed light on local computer cultures and economies across the globe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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