Robot Factory

Robot Factory

Pseudoscience in Education and Its Threat to American Democracy

Ganem, Joseph

Springer International Publishing AG

09/2018

255

Mole

Inglês

9783319778594

15 a 20 dias

454


ebook

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Introduction.- Why I Would Fail Third Grade Math: A Multitude of Problems in One Brief Lesson.- Data-Driven Education Reform: A New Pseudo-science.- Science: Motivation, Measurement, and Meaning.- The Scientific Method Misapplied to Education.- The "Mathematical Intimidation" of Teachers.- The Statistical Impossibility of Adequate Yearly Progress in Schools.- The SAT: Promoting equal opportunity or perpetuating a hierarchy?.- The Accountability Hoax.- Facts versus Stories.- Why Our Kids Don't Get Math.- The Widening Gap Between High School and College Math.- The Disconnect Between the Math Curriculum and Professional Practitioners.- Making Math Relevant: Assessing reading comprehension or math?.- The "Chinese Room".- Misunderstanding Science Education.- Why Science is Hard.- Science as a Noun.- Science as a Question.- Science as a Conversation.- Science as a Guide.- Science as a Verb.- The Limits of Science.- Having It Both Ways.- Teachers are Real Human Beings (Not Idealized Fantasy People).- The Teacher-Student Relationship.- The Opposite of Science: Elevating Complexity.- Impossible Expectations.- Across Time and Space: The complex web of human relatedness.- Do Adults Model the Educational Values They Espouse?.- False Choice: The dark side of storytelling.- Schools are not Cultural Islands.- Dismembering Literature to Avoid its Truths.- The Fallacy of Market-based Education Reforms.- Markets: Meaning and Morality.- Education Markets: The Higher-Ed debacle.- The Charter School Movement.- The Logical Fallacies Embedded in the "Business Model".- The Paradox of Wealth: Towards an Expanded Understanding of Self-Interest.- Rethinking Education.- Back to the Future: The "Deficit Model" of Education.- Transformative Education.- Beyond the Business Model.- Rethinking College: Preparing for the Unimagined.- The Expectations Trap.- The Limits of Education.- The Overlooked Role of Questions and Reflection.- Being Educated.- Knowing and Understanding.- Do Computers Understand?.- Relatedness.- The Real Crisis.- A Call to Action.
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science and math education in grade school;evaluating teaching effectiveness;market-based education reform;rethinking education;education policy;american public education