Nancy Dafoe

The Misdirection of Education Policy (eBook, ePUB)

Raising Questions about School Reform

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Misdirection of Education Policy: Raising Questions about School Reform proposes critically important questions about the wisdom of American public education policy and reform initiatives. Laying out the particulars of three policy strands-creation of STEM curricula/schools, expansion of charter schools/privatizing, and teacher accountability/testing tied to job security- The Misdirection of Education Policy exposes complications, contradictions, and deliberate deceptions in these supposed solutions to very real issues in education. Dafoe theorizes that obstacles facing American education are far more complicated than policy makers suggest or consider. The Misdirection of Education Policy poses the question of whether it is practical to offer an education that is not merely practical in its ends, opening doors far beyond career readiness and filling employers' job slots. The approach suggested here is designed to offer an arterial that allows students and teachers to do more than simply prepare for STEM careers; it advocates for an education that helps people navigate life by becoming explorers who remain curious and analytical about their world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475828337
• Artikelnr.: 45483055

Autorenporträt

By Nancy DaFoe

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: "Look with the Eyes of a Scientist" Preface: Strangeness of Ideas
Introduction: Examples and Non-Examples Chapter One: We're Funding the Left
Side of Your Brain Chapter Two: "If I Didn't Write in this Journal..."
Chapter Three: Why Aren't Schools Run like Businesses? Chapter Four: Faulty
Logic; Public Discourse Chapter Five: Tales "Told by Idiots Signifying
Nothing" Chapter Six: Why Teacher Evaluations Tied to Tests Don't Work
Chapter Seven: What Hurt Chapter Eight: Public Education Paradigm Shifts'
Menu Chapter Nine: Common Core Head First Chapter Ten: Why Students Should
Read Tolstoy and Faulkner Chapter Eleven: Consequences of Exclusionary
Parameters Chapter Twelve: Education without the Humanities Chapter
Thirteen: What You Don't Know Chapter Fourteen: Master Teachers in Every
Classroom? Chapter Fifteen: Welcome the Subversive Chapter Sixteen:
Insights from the Humanities Chapter Seventeen: Allow Every Teacher to
Engineer Reform Chapter Eighteen: The Waste Land Revisited Chapter
Nineteen: Creating Meaningful, Lasting Reform Chapter Twenty: Convergence
of Poetry/Science Chapter Twenty-One: Raining Poets Chapter Twenty-Two: The
Answer is the Question Appendix A Bibliography About the Author of the
Foreword About the Author of The Misdirection of Education Policy Index