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Education on the Wild Side: Learning for the Twenty-first Century: v. 12 (Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory) - Hardcover

Johnson, Michael L

 
9780806125466: Education on the Wild Side: Learning for the Twenty-first Century: v. 12 (Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory)

Synopsis

Explores the present crisis in education, particularly in the US, by surveying broad changes in recent curricular and pedagogical theory and practice. Johnson critiques and synthesises ideas and recommendations from authors as diverse as Allan Bloom, Neil Postman and Gregory L. Ulmer.

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Synopsis

Johnson (English, U. of Kansas) explores the present crisis in education, especially in the US, by surveying broad changes in recent curricular and pedagogical theory and practice. These changes entail a shift from "teaching" to "instructing" from students learning what the teacher knows to learning how to ask questions, how to unsettle the settled

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