Getting it Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget

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Yale University Press, 1 gen 2002 - 204 pagine
The ideas upon which public education was founded in the last half of the nineteenth century were wrong. And despite their continued dominance in educational thinking for a century and a half, these ideas are no more right today. So argues one of the most original and highly regarded educational theorists of our time in 'Getting It Wrong from the Beginning'. Kieran Egan explains how we have come to take mistaken concepts about education for granted and why this dooms our attempts at educational reform.
 

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Introduction
1
1 The Strange Case of Herbert Spencer
11
2 Learning According to Natures Plan
37
3 Development Progress and the Biologized Mind
79
4 The Useful Curriculum
115
5 Research Has Shown That
149
Conclusion
183
References
187
Index
199
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Kieran Egan, originally from Clonmel, Ireland, has published sixteen academic books. He holds two Ph.D.s in education, from Stanford & Cornell. He is a professor at Simon Fraser University & lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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