The future of education : reimagining our schools from the ground up / Kieran Egan.

By:

Egan, Kieran [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2008Description: xi, 191 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780300164596

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

22 370.1 Eg13f

LOC classification:

LB14.7 .E533 2008

Online resources:

Table of contents only

Contents:

Part I: From a major problem toward a solution -- Past, present, and future schools -- Why education is so difficult and contentions -- Accumulating cognitive tools -- Part II: A fifty-year program of educational reform: 2010-2060 -- 2010-2020 -- 2020-2030 -- 2030-2040 -- 2040-2050 -- 2050-2060.

Summary: "This provocative book presents a frontal attack on current forms of schooling and a radical rethinking of the whole education process. Kieran Egan, a prize winning scholar and innovative thinker, does not rail against teachers, administrators, or politicians for the failures of the school. Instead he argues that education today is built on a set of mutually exclusive goals that are destined to defeat our best efforts. Egan explores the three big ideas and aims of education-academic, social, and developmental growth---and exposes their flaws and fundamental incompatibility. He then proposes and describes a process called imaginative Education that would dramatically change teaching and curriculum while delivering the skills and understanding that we all want our children to acquire. His speculative narrative of education from 2010 to 2060--executed with wit and verve--shows how we might very well get there from here"-- Back cover.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Main Library	Graduate School Library	GRD 370.1 Eg13f 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1-1	Available		032312

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This provocative book presents a frontal attack on current forms of schooling and a radical rethinking of the whole education process. Kieran Egan, a prize winning scholar and innovative thinker, does not rail against teachers, administrators, or politicians for the failures of the school. Instead he argues that education today is built on a set of mutually exclusive goals that are destined to defeat our best efforts.
Egan explores the three big ideas and aims of education-academic, social, and developmental growth---and exposes their flaws and fundamental incompatibility. He then proposes and describes a process called imaginative Education that would dramatically change teaching and curriculum while delivering the skills and understanding that we all want our children to acquire. His speculative narrative of education from 2010 to 2060--executed with wit and verve--shows how we might very well get there from here"-- Back cover.

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