PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY AND EDUCATIONAL REFORM by David R. Olson ( 9780521532112 )

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PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY AND EDUCATIONAL REFORM
HOW SCHOOL REMAKES MIND AND SOCIETY

By:

David R. Olson

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0521532116

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

16 June, 2003

Pages:

358

Description:

This book provides theoretical account of the reason behind the failure of most educational reform.

Synopsis:

For well over a century educational reformers have looked for a breakthrough in the sciences of psychology and pedagogy that would dramatically improve the effectiveness of schooling. This book shows why such an ambition is an illusion. Schools are institutions which attempt to balance the needs of a bureaucratic society that funds them with the personal goals, interests, hopes and ambitions of the students who enroll in them. Reform efforts attempt to realign that balance without any clear conception of how the two are related. This book offers a theoretical account of the relation between the minds of learners and the institutional structure of the school that would account both for the ways that schooling remakes minds and societies and why such institutions are resistant to change.

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