Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (637 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300094337 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 204 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Engaging and Important Read for Constructivists Especially" according to Amazon Customer. A very interesting historical review and offering of topics relevant to educators with regard to student learning. I cannot overemphasize how valuable of a read this will be for any contemporary education - especially those who love discovery learning, constructivism, and other methods that are from the line of Dewey (or so we all thought!).An excellent read.. Getting it Right in Hindsight. Bernard Chapin This is an outstanding title for a book and I could not wait for it to arrive in the mail. The author proves to be quite witty and authoritative regarding the history of education and the way in which it has been influenced, and in turn dominated, by the progressives. His recapitulation of the career of the Herbert Spencer was quite insightful but no where is Egan stronger than in the chapter that discusses the impact that progressivism has had on the study of history and all other forms of knowledge that are not directly useful to the re. Getting it wrong form the beginning A Customer It has been a long time since I read a book that both frustrated me and at the same time challenged the most fundamental "truths" that I have been taught about education. It is easy to both love some of the insights in this book and then be left lost trying to understand the alternative. I think I would of gained a better understanding of Egan's insights if I had read the predecessor The Educated Mind. One of Egan's main arguments is that the progressive school and its theories have resulted in "the reduction of academic content in primar
Egan traces the 19th-century sources of Progressive thinking about education and their persistence even now. This volume seeks to be both persuasive and full of promise.. The ideas upon which public education was founded in the last half of the 19th century were wrong. Kieran Egan explains how we have come to take mistaken concepts about education for granted and why this dooms our attempts at educational reform. Despite their continued dominance in educational thinking for a century and a half, these ideas are no more right today. So argues Kieran Egan, an educational theorist, in this study. He diagnoses the problem with our schools in a radically different way, and likewise prescribes novel alternatives to present educational practice
Kieran Egan diagnoses our school problems in a radically different way, shows why our attempts at reform are doomed, and offers promising, novel alternatives.. One of the most highly regarded educational theorists of our time explains that the ideas upon which public education was founded—and which continue to dominate our educational thinking—are wrong