| Making Minds: What's Wrong with Education - And What Should We Do about It? Contributor(s): Kelley, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415414105 ISBN-13: 9780415414104 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2007 Annotation: Making Minds is a controversial critique of our education systems. The author is a school leader at the forefront of scientific and technological advancement in schools who, as an American, felt comfortable taking on the British establishment (The Times Educational Supplement). Making Minds is written for general readers- especially parents- as well as educational professionals. The book examines the underlying limitations that have been accepted in education over the past two thousand years. The author challenges common assumptions about education through evidence-based, political, ethical, and emotional arguments, as well as examining case studies such as university admissions and the autism epidemic. Making Minds describes a more productive scientific approach to learning, drawing on recent research findings, particularly in the US and UK. The author illustrates how new research methods, new technologies, and very recent discoveries in neuroscience that will, in the end, allow us to make minds. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects - Education | Aims & Objectives - Education | Research |
| Dewey: 370.1 |
| LCCN: 2006100584 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.22" W x 9.38" (0.95 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Making Minds is a controversial critique of our education systems. The author is a school leader 'at the forefront of scientific and technological advancement in schools' who, as an American, 'felt comfortable taking on the British establishment' (The Times Educational Supplement). Making Minds is written for general readers- especially parents- as well as educational professionals. The book examines the underlying limitations that have been accepted in education over the past two thousand years. The author challenges common assumptions about education through evidence-based, political, ethical, and emotional arguments, as well as examining case studies such as university admissions and the autism 'epidemic'. Making Minds describes a more productive scientific approach to learning, drawing on recent research findings, particularly in the US and UK. The author illustrates how new research methods, new technologies, and very recent discoveries in neuroscience that will, in the end, allow us to make minds. |