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=== A personal profile for the Tech committee === | === A personal profile for the Tech committee === | ||
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<p style="text-indent: 0.13in">After a long academic career, I am living in Princeton, New Jersey, to study and write about the cultural effects of education and technology and to prototype culturally effective uses of digital technologies. </p> | <p style="text-indent: 0.13in">After a long academic career, I am living in Princeton, New Jersey, to study and write about the cultural effects of education and technology and to prototype culturally effective uses of digital technologies. </p> | ||
<p style="text-indent: 0.13in">My interests formed as I earned my B.A. with high honors at Princeton University (1957-61) and my Ph.D. at Columbia University (1961-68). Thanks to a good job market, I joined the faculty at the Johns Hopkins University as an Assistant Professor in 1965, and I then moved to the faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University, in 1967. In 2002, I became the John L. and Sue Ann Weinberg Professor in the Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Education there, and 10 years later I retired to study and write full-time.</p> | <p style="text-indent: 0.13in">My interests formed as I earned my B.A. with high honors at Princeton University (1957-61) and my Ph.D. at Columbia University (1961-68). Thanks to a good job market, I joined the faculty at the Johns Hopkins University as an Assistant Professor in 1965, and I then moved to the faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University, in 1967. In 2002, I became the John L. and Sue Ann Weinberg Professor in the Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Education there, and 10 years later I retired to study and write full-time.</p> | ||
<p style="text-indent: 0.13in">As an undergraduate, I became interested in formative education as an agent of cultural change and that topic has remained central to my work. To further this interest, I initially studied the history of political and educational theory and the cultural significance of information and communications technologies. Jacques Barzun and Lawrence A. Cremin sponsored my dissertation, an intellectual biography of José Ortega y Gasset, which the Teachers College Press published as [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gz9vcxwkakizjcmiyqtd7/1971-Man-and-Circumstances-McClintock.pdf?rlkey=zdjrwdg8a2o01629mtmyobk3s&dl=0 Man and His Circumstances: Ortega as Educator] in 1971. Through the 1970s, writing essays like [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/17xqp3inppj2e90okrfu9/1971-Place-for-Study-McClintock.pdf?rlkey=4ebeedcs47v4mtr2po6e5o18q&dl=0 "Towards a Place for Study in a World of Instruction"] and [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/i88ikb7pcmyi7lm1dktvg/1979-Dynamics-Decline-Education-1979.pdf?rlkey=uibdh7dc7jjf0f7do07vr6abc&dl=0 "The Dynamics of Decline: Why Education Can No Longer Be Liberal"], I developed the view that humanistic educators should try to use digital technologies as disruptive historical forces to strengthen the cultural power of formative education. </p> | <p style="text-indent: 0.13in">As an undergraduate, I became interested in formative education as an agent of cultural change and that topic has remained central to my work. To further this interest, I initially studied the history of political and educational theory and the cultural significance of information and communications technologies. Jacques Barzun and Lawrence A. Cremin sponsored my dissertation, an intellectual biography of José Ortega y Gasset, which the Teachers College Press published as [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gz9vcxwkakizjcmiyqtd7/1971-Man-and-Circumstances-McClintock.pdf?rlkey=zdjrwdg8a2o01629mtmyobk3s&dl=0 Man and His Circumstances: Ortega as Educator] in 1971. Through the 1970s, writing essays like [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/17xqp3inppj2e90okrfu9/1971-Place-for-Study-McClintock.pdf?rlkey=4ebeedcs47v4mtr2po6e5o18q&dl=0 "Towards a Place for Study in a World of Instruction"] and [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/i88ikb7pcmyi7lm1dktvg/1979-Dynamics-Decline-Education-1979.pdf?rlkey=uibdh7dc7jjf0f7do07vr6abc&dl=0 "The Dynamics of Decline: Why Education Can No Longer Be Liberal"], I developed the view that humanistic educators should try to use digital technologies as disruptive historical forces to strengthen the cultural power of formative education. </p> | ||