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The Hazard Called Education by Joseph Agassi : Essays, Reviews, and Dialogues on Education from Forty-Five Years.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Rotterdam : BRILL, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (269 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789462096264
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Hazard Called Education by Joseph AgassiLOC classification:
  • L1-991
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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