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Welcome to the eWaste Schools Wiki.

This is a research project of Dr. David Shutkin.

On these pages you will find proposals, webliographies, bibliographies, draft documents and more.

I have been developing the Toxic Networks Project since December 2004. Through this project I seek to assess the environmental, health, financial and educational risks of educational computing. My focus is on how risk is generated, transformed and managed at each phase of the educational computing life cycle including: creation, distribution, use and disposal. Through this research I am documenting institutional procedures and practices regarding digital waste and PK-12 schools in the United States. I intend to establish relationships between the practices of governmental, commercial and educational institutions in the United States and global issues of children’s education and health.

My primary objective is to author a book-length manuscript based on theoretical and ethnographic research into risk, electronic waste and educational technology. I have begun discussions with Dr. Robert Muffoletto who edits the Media, Education, Culture and Technology book series at Hampton Press. Dr. Muffoletto has included three essays that I have authored as chapters in three edited books. In the past year, I have presented this research to colleagues at two conferences. Links to my conference presentations are available below.

The most significant aspect of the project to date applies actor-network theory to trace the global practices of children along the toxic network. The focus is on how risk is generated, transformed and managed at each phase of the educational computing life cycle: from the mining of raw materials in the Congo, to the manufacturing of computers in the Philippines, to the uses of computers in elite schools in the United States, to their second hand uses in impoverished schools in the United States, to the demanufacturing of the very same computers in the Guangdong region of China.Best,David Please feel free to share your thoughts and comments.David Shutkin, Ph.D.John Carroll UniversityDepartment of Education and Allied Studies20700 North Park Blvd.Cleveland, Ohio 44118+216.397.4754

dshutkin@jcu.edu