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In the author's words: This book is an honest attempt to understand
what it means to be educated in today's world. Schank's argument is
this: No matter how important science and technology seem to
industry or government or indeed to the daily life of people, as a
society we believe that those educated in literature and history
and other humanities are in some way better informed, more knowing,
and somehow more worthy of the descriptor well educated. This
nineteenth-century conception of the educated mind weighs heavily
on our notions on how we educate our young. When the focus of
education is on intellectual and scholarly issues as opposed to
issues such as communications, or basic psychology, or child
raising, we are continuing to rely on outdated notions of the
educated mind that come from an elitist view of who is to be
educated and what that means. elitist view. We need to rethink what
it means to be educated, to reconceptualize the very idea of
education as a process that forefronts and values learning by
doing. Students need to learn how to think and they need to learn
by doing - not how to accomplish tasks such as passing standardized
tests and reciting rote facts. In this engaging book, Roger Schank
sets forth the premises of his argument, cites its foundations in
the Great Books themselves, and illustrates it with examples from
an experimental curriculum that has been used in graduate schools
and with K-12 students. Making Minds Less Well Educated Than Our
Own is essential reading for scholars and students in the learning
sciences, instructional design, curriculum theory and planning,
educational policy, school reform, philosophy of education, and
higher education, and anyone interested in what it means to be
educated in today's world.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2004 |
First published: |
April 2004 |
Authors: |
Roger C. Schank
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
352 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8058-4878-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Education >
General
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LSN: |
0-8058-4878-9 |
Barcode: |
9780805848786 |
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