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Ilana Snyder

Ilana Snyder reviews ‘Why Our Schools Are Failing’ by Kevin Donnelly

June-July 2004, no. 262 01 June 2004
Commissioned by the Liberal Party thinktank, the Menzies Research Centre, this book has as its subject the ‘crisis’ in education. It opens with an endorsement by Malcolm Turnbull and closes with a Glossary of Edubabble, the entries of which include: progressive education, fuzzy maths, political correctness, black armband, whole language and phonics. If Turnbull’s enthusiastic foreword and th ... (read more)

Ilana Snyder reviews 'How Images Think' by Ron Burnett

May 2004, no. 261 01 May 2004
Whether it is the television, computer, Personal Digital Assistant or mobile phone, many of us spend a considerable proportion of our lives engaging with images presented on screens. Digital images are integral to television, film, photography, animation, video games and the Internet, and are used increasingly as the main medium through which we interact and communicate with each other. Although ... (read more)