The Book of Learning and Forgetting - Brossura

Smith, Frank

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ISBN 10: 080773750X ISBN 13: 9780807737507

Casa editrice: Teachers College Pr, 1998

Riassunto

In this thought-provoking book, Frank Smith explains how schools and educational authorities systematically obstruct the powerful inherent learning abilities of children, creating handicaps that often persist through life. The author eloquently contrasts a false and fabricated "official theory" that learning is work (used to justify the external control of teacher's and students through excessive regulation and massive testing) with a correct but officially suppressed "classic view" that learning is a social process that can occur naturally and continually through collaborative activities. This book will be crucial reading in a time when national authorities continue to blame teachers and students for alleged failures in education. It will help educators and parents to combat sterile attitudes toward teaching and learning and prevent current practices from doing further harm.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Frank Smith has been a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the University of Toronto, the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Teachers College Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 080773750X
• ISBN 13: 9780807737507
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 133
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile