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Chet Bowers
C.A. (Chet) Bowers (born June 4, 1935) is an American educator, author, lecturer and environmental activist. He has written more than 20 books that focus on the cultural, linguistic and technological roots of the current ecological crisis as well as the educational reforms necessary to promote greater ecological awareness. Bower's influence has been credited by several authors. Fritjof Capra, author of the best seller, ''The Tao of Physics'', physicist and founder of the Center for Ecoliteracy, says, "C.A.Bowers has argued eloquently, language is metaphoric, conveying tacit understandings shared within a culture."〔Capra, Fritjof (1997). ''The Web of Life'', Anchor publishing pg.70, ISBN 0385476760〕
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In the preface of his book, ''Pagans in the Promised Land'', author Steven T. Newcomb, co-founder and co-director of the Indigenous Law Institute, credits Bowers saying, "I learned of the importance of metaphors and metaphorical frameworks in the social construction of reality. Bowers helped me understand that metaphors are carriers of and therefore connected to complex metaphorical systems."〔Newcomb, Steven T. (2008). ''Pagans in the Promised land'', Fulcrum Publishing, Preface xvi ISBN 978-1-55591-642-8〕 During the last four decades, Chet Bowers has reminded students, academics and activists that words have a history, that metaphors contain cultural perceptions that may be inadequate to address the challenges of the modern world. Bowers also contends that the digital age and computer learning, while broadly accepted as progressive and positive, have acted to homogenize cultural diversity and thought. In her book, ''The Resurgence of the Real, Body, Nature and Place in a Hypermodern World'', Charlene Spretnak describes Bowers as, "One of the most astute critics of computer mediated learning, Chet Bowers, has focused attention on the largely unexamined ways in which computer use amplifies or reduces various cultural orientations." Spretnak goes on to discuss at some length Bowers's views on the ways in which the use of computers and digital information for education changes the educational process and the resulting cultural context reinforce "what Bowers calls 'the particular messianic ethos of modernity'".〔
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