Nancy Dafoe

The Misdirection of Education Policy (eBook, PDF)

Raising Questions about School Reform

• Format: PDF

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: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216291589
• Artikelnr.: 74832183

Autorenporträt

Nancy Avery Dafoe is a published author and English educator at the secondary and college levels. Her books include Breaking Open the Box and Writing Creatively: A Guided Journal, published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2013 and 2014, respectively, and a memoir, An Iceberg in Paradise: A Passage through Alzheimer's, published by SUNY Press in 2015.

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