Chris Edwards

Beyond Obsolete (eBook, PDF)

How to Upgrade Classroom Practice and School Structure

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Americans have seen it all in education over the last twenty years: charter schools, vouchers, private schools, ever-changing sets of technology, increased funding for schools, decreased funding for schools, accountability measures for teachers, and on and on. These schemes never seem to make any real changes in student outcomes. This is because the obsolete educational system is simply not compatible with what we now know about how students learn and how teachers are developed and sustained. Beyond Obsolete: How to Upgrade Classroom Practice and School Structure delves into the history of Western Civilization, shows how a misunderstanding of this history informs our current educational system, and then makes a broad argument for a full-scale upgrade in teacher practice (the software) and school structure (the hardware). If educational reform is to be achieved, then superintendents, assistant superintendents, principals, assistant principals etc. will have to be declared obsolete. Education will have to move beyond them into a new era where teachers are the educational leaders in their field and their classroom practice is compatible with learning theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216320463
• Artikelnr.: 74844037

Autorenporträt

Chris Edwards has had his "connect-the-dots" teaching methodology published by the National Council for Social Studies, is the author of two books of philosophy, and is a frequent contributor on topics of law, logic, and theoretical physics to the science and philosophy journals Skeptic and Free Inquiry. He proudly teaches world history and Advanced Placement world history at a public high school in Indiana.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: Civilization, Science, and Genius
Chapter Two: The Scientific Revolution and Western Civilization: New
Understandings
Chapter Three: Platonic Fallacies, Big History, and Education
Chapter Four: Software Update
Chapter Five: Hardware Update and Compatibility
Conclusion