User:Robbie
Robbie's User Page[s]
My personal profile for the Tech committee
<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">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
<u>["https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gz9vcxwkakizjcmiyqtd7/1971-Man-and-Circumsta
nces-McClintock.pdf?rlkey=zdjrwdg8a2o01629mtmyobk3s&dl=0" Man and His
Circumstances: Ortega as Educator]</u>i>in 1971. Through the 1970s,
writing essays like
“["https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/17xqp3inppj2e90okrfu9/1971-Place-for-Study-McC
lintock.pdf?rlkey=4ebeedcs47v4mtr2po6e5o18q&dl=0" <u>Towards a Place for
Study in a World of Instruction</u>]” and
“["https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/i88ikb7pcmyi7lm1dktvg/1979-Dynamics-Decline-Ed
ucation-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">To further that goal, at TC I organized the
["https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tmsnr0b84oa1cyns1oq1o/1999-ILT-Plan-McClintock.
pdf?rlkey=nq7a825ov4w9hahfkhpbodc43&dl=0" Institute for Learning
Technologies] (ILT) in 1984 and directed it until 2002, prototyping advanced
curricular resources for use over the Internet. Acting on my ideas about
education and historical change, I developed
["https://www.dropbox.com/home/0-Gesamtschriften-Robbie?preview=1990-The-Cumulat
ive-Curriculum-Multi-Media-and-the-Making-of-a-New-Educational-System.pdf" The
Cumulative Curriculum Proposal] (1990-91), which led to two large projects —
["https://www.dropbox.com/home/0-Gesamtschriften-Robbie?di=left_nav_bro
wse&preview=1992-Risk-and-Renewal-Dalton-Year-1-Summaries.pdf" The Dalton
Technology Plan] (1991–1996) and
["https://www.dropbox.com/home/0-Gesamtschriften-Robbie?di=left_nav_browse&p
review=1996_Eiffel-Project-1-1-McClintock.pdf" The Eiffel Project]
(1996–2001). I raised over $20 million in gifts and grants to prototype
places for study in New York City schools, public and private, and in Columbia
University. In two online essays, I wrote about digital technologies as agents
of cultural change,
<u>["https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaa81sfrqpd2dgwe5f6q6/1992-Power-and-Pedagog
y-McClintock.pdf?rlkey=11m299rgo5d5dzjfw2bsmwk4v&dl=0">Power and
Pedagogy]</u> (1992) and
["https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/um8rmmmxbd1gg6j2n43wu/1999-Manifesto-McClintock
.pdf?rlkey=15j1hebdi721jd57j05bfcy83&dl=0"><u>The Educators
Manifesto</u>] (1999), and on the eve of the dot-com crash, I wrote
["https://www.dropbox.com/home/0-Gesamtschriften-Robbie?di=left_nav_browse&p
review=2000-Smart-Cities-New-York-McClintock-1.pdf#" Smart Cities — New York:
Electronic Education for the New Millennium] (2000), the pedagogical
rationale for a very large, ill-fated initiative under-taken by the NYC Board of
Education, Accenture, and a consortium of major tech companies. </p>
<p style="text-indent: 0.13in">Over the past 20 years, I’ve stayed away from
market-driven innovation to concentrate on scholarship and technical initiatives
“for their own sake.” In
<u>["https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hwto8no5s4dryqn80mjnt/2005-Homeless-Intellec
t-McClintock.pdf?rlkey=85rlwd3hx28czrpw7juhl99yw&dl=0" <i>Homeless in the
House of Intellect: Formative Justice and Education as an Academic
Study</i>]</u> (2005), I explored the special importance the academic study
of education had at a time when the radical transformation of educational
institutions was getting underway. In
<u>["https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/swqby2yfm80k20knhtxrj/2012-Enough-McClintock
.pdf?rlkey=zdddnknc3365wagig8j7q0jxf&dl=0" <i>Enough: A Pedagogic
Speculation</i>]</u> (2012), I criticized present-day thinking about
education and public life from an imagined perspective, far in the future, when
<i>enough</i>, neither <i>too much nor too little</i>, had supplanted the
principle of <i>more</i> as the basis for exercising judgment and legitimating
authority. Subsequently, I published an extended
essay—<u>["https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/d3l0f720x75hwi2zqbre9/2019-Formative-J
ustice-published-paperback.pdf?rlkey=esbx65twjy1wzkc7cdsz18gts&dl=0"><i>Form
ative Justice</i>]</u> (2019)—that brings the speculations put forward in
<i>Enough</i> more concretely into the contemporary context. Since 2019, I have
labored to prototype <u>["https://aplacetostudy.org/wiki/Main_Page" a place to
study]</u>, which you may enjoy exploring. A second generation prototype will
go on line towards early 2025.</p>
<p style="text-indent: 0.13in">Presently, I’m depressed by the level of anger in
us all, and a bit skeptical about the AI buzz. I’ve always thought AI should
stand for <b>Augmenting</b> the <b>Intelligence</b> we use to nurture our human
fulfillment, an intent I long ago voiced in the <i>American Scholar</i> through
“["https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/yfb0xr9n560ixr6020kxe/1966-Machines-and-Vitali
sts-McClintock.pdf?rlkey=czywwdn8m7asggjx9s9xigsy8&dl=0" Machines and
Vitalists: Reflections on the Ideology of Cybernetics]” (1966).</p>
<p style="font-style: normal; text-indent: 0.13in">Still much to do. Here’s to
the future!</p>
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