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Educational Research: Proofs, Arguments, and Other Reasonings pp 77–91Cite as

Parenting in a Technological Age

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Education is marked by continuity in thoughts and approach mostly (Depaepe, 1998). It nevertheless also bears in it the tendencies of its time. The education of the 19th and 20th centuries’ children was marked by upcoming educationalization (Depaepe, 1998) and medicalization (Petrina, 2006). Although these tendencies are still present today, as continuity is education’s main feature, there is also the upcoming trend of technologization. Education has inevitably become highly technological in the era of information and communication technology (ICT) in life in general. At school, computers and the Internet are being introduced in more and more classes to support subject learning. Teachers do their best to keep up to date with ICT, while in the home parents are urged to reflect upon how to integrate ICT in the education of their children too.

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    Prieviously published in Ethics and Education, Volume 3, Issue 2 October 2008, pp. 121–134 (reprinted with permission of the editor, Richard Smith).

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    Geertrui Smedts

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    Paul Smeyers

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    Marc Depaepe

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Smedts, G. (2009). Parenting in a Technological Age. In: Smeyers, P., Depaepe, M. (eds) Educational Research: Proofs, Arguments, and Other Reasonings. Educational Research, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3249-2_6

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