TY  - BOOK
AU  - Swartz,Ronald
AU  - Richmond,Sheldon
TI  - The Hazard Called Education by Joseph Agassi: Essays, Reviews, and Dialogues on Education from Forty-Five Years
SN  - 9789462096264
AV  - L1-991 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Rotterdam
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Education -- Aims and objectives
KW  - Education
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- The Hazard Called Education by Joseph Agassi: Essays, Reviews, and Dialogues on Education from Forty-Five Years -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Preface 1 -- Preface 2: Towards Creating a Curriculum for Autonomous Learners: An Email Dialogue -- Foreword -- Introduction to the Hazard Called Education: Towards a Socratic Educational Philosophy -- Part I: Theory -- Chapter 1: Training to Survive the Hazard Called Education -- Chapter 2: The Autonomous Student -- Chapter 3: The Myth of the Young Genius -- Chapter 4: To Reform Higher Education: Towards a Manifesto -- Chapter 5: The Preaching of John Holt: Discussion of John Holt, The Underachieving School -- Chapter 6: The Teaching of Critical Thinking: Review of Francis Schragg, Thinking in School and Society -- Chapter 7: Rituals to Block the Reform of Education, Review of Jerome S. Bruner's, The Process of Education -- Chapter 8: Top Schools: Review of D. Reynolds, B. Creemers, S. Stringfield, C. Teddlie, and G. Schaffer, eds., World Class Schools -- Chapter 9: Educating Elites in Democratic Societies: A Dialogue -- Chapter 10: Letter to Diane: Popper on Learning from Experience -- Chapter 11: Education for Survival -- Part II: Application -- Chapter 12: Science Education Without Pressure -- Chapter 13: Planning for Science and Science Education -- Chapter 14: On Mathematics Education: The Lakatosian Revolution -- Chapter 15: Mathematical Education as Training for Freedom -- Chapter 16: The Injury of Science Text Books: Review Essay of Michael Matthews, Science Teaching -- Chapter 17: The Master Relationship: Review of Warwick, Andrew, Masters of Theory -- Chapter 18: The Future of (Science) Higher Education -- Part III: Social Criticism -- Chapter 19: University President as Gun-Slinger 1: Academic Democracy Threatened; Chapter 20: University President as Gun-Slinger 2: Review of Straight Shooting -- Chapter 21: Disseminating Education for the Democratic Way of life Now -- Afterword: Is Agassi Out of Touch with Reality? -- Last Word: Instruction -- Appendix
N2  - The question of most urgency for educators today who care about the intellectual development of students is: How do we make ready our educational institutions for more Socratic teachers? The philosophical or theoretical question is: Why do we want Socratic teachers? In outline, of the many of Agassi's educational essays selected for this book, Agassi answers those questions
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