ERIC Number: EJ1235773
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 4
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-7217
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Existentialism and Instagram
Housiaux, Andrew
Phi Delta Kappan, v101 n4 p48-51 Dec 2019-Jan 2020
Parents and teachers alike express concern about how much time teenagers spend on their cell phones today, but what do the teenagers themselves think? Andrew Housiaux, a philosophy teacher at a boarding school in Massachusetts, asked his students to give up their cell phones for three days and write about the experience. Their reflections showed them grappling with issues of anxiety, identity, and humanity that they encountered in the work of the existentialist philosophers they were studying in class. The experiment brought the work of those thinkers to life and showed that students are interested in thinking deeply about their inner lives.
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Time on Task, Addictive Behavior, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Adolescent Attitudes, Philosophy, Psychological Patterns, Anxiety, Social Media, Freedom, Misconceptions, Essays, Fear, Reflection
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Massachusetts
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