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Stephen Downes

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This is an aspect of 'reclaim' that doesn't get talked about a lot in technological circles. As this article notes, "Lesley Rameka noticed that a lot of New Zealand early childhood education centres were adopting international philosophies and practices that bore little cultural relevance to the attending children." Technology and commercialization have a tendency to homogenize, but education needs to attend to the individual in culture and society.

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