The Book of Learning and Forgetting

Smith, Frank

ISBN 10: 080773750X / ISBN 13: 9780807737507

Editore: Teachers College Press, 1998

Codice articolo 080773750X-4-32734742

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.

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.

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Titolo: The Book of Learning and Forgetting
Casa editrice: Teachers College Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1998
Legatura: paperback
Condizione: Fair