Psychological theory and educational reform how school remakes mind and society
"For more than a century educational reformers have looked for a breakthrough in the sciences of psychology and pedagogy that would dramatically improve the effectiveness of schooling. This book shows why such an ambition is an illusion. Schools are institutions that attempt to balance the need...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge [u.a.]
Cambridge University Press
2003
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| Zusammenfassung: | "For more than a century educational reformers have looked for a breakthrough in the sciences of psychology and pedagogy that would dramatically improve the effectiveness of schooling. This book shows why such an ambition is an illusion. Schools are institutions that attempt to balance the needs of a bureaucratic society that funds them with the personal goals, interests, hopes, and ambitions of the students who enroll in them. Reform efforts attempt to realign that balance without any clear conception of how the two are related. This book offers a theoretical account of the relation between the minds of learners and the institutional structure of the school that would account for both the ways that schooling remakes minds and societies and for the reasons such institutions are resistant to change."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-323) and index |
| Beschreibung: | XIV, 343 S. |
| ISBN: | 0521825105 0521532116 |