Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget

Egan, Kieran

ISBN 10: 030010510X / ISBN 13: 9780300105100

Published by Yale University Press, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 030010510X
• ISBN 13: 9780300105100
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The ideas upon which public education was founded in the last half of the nineteenth century were wrong. And despite their continued dominance in educational thinking for a century and a half these ideas are no more right today. So argues one of the most original and highly regarded educational theorists of our time in "Getting It Wrong from the Beginning." Kieran Egan explains how we have come to take mistaken concepts about education for granted and why this dooms our attempts at educational reform.

About the Author

Kieran Egan is professor of education at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. A recipient of the Grawemeyer Award in Education, he is also author of the best-selling book The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding and many other books and articles about education.