The Robot Factory Pseudoscience in Education and Its Threat to American Democracy /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Ganem, Joseph (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Education.; Mathematics-Study and teaching .; Education and state.; Assessment.; Popular Science in Education.; Mathematics Education.; Education Policy.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.

Fake Science Is Killing Our Schools-and Our Republic Science is both a method for understanding and a guide for decision-making. It can and should be the foundation for citizenship: logic, reasoning, challenging claims, making choices based on verifiable fact. Authentic science education is key to p...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• Why I Would Fail Third Grade Math: A Multitude of Problems in One Brief Lesson
• Data-Driven Education Reform: A New Pseudo-science
• Science: Motivation, Measurement, and Meaning
• The Scientific Method Misapplied to Education
• The "Mathematical Intimidation" of Teachers
• The Statistical Impossibility of Adequate Yearly Progress in Schools
• The SAT: Promoting equal opportunity or perpetuating a hierarchy?
• The Accountability Hoax
• Facts versus Stories
• Why Our Kids Don't Get Math
• The Widening Gap Between High School and College Math
• The Disconnect Between the Math Curriculum and Professional Practitioners
• Making Math Relevant: Assessing reading comprehension or math?
• The "Chinese Room"
• Misunderstanding Science Education
• Why Science is Hard
• Science as a Noun
• Science as a Question
• Science as a Conversation
• Science as a Guide
• Science as a Verb
• The Limits of Science
• Having It Both Ways
• Teachers are Real Human Beings (Not Idealized Fantasy People)
• The Teacher-Student Relationship
• The Opposite of Science: Elevating Complexity
• Impossible Expectations
• Across Time and Space: The complex web of human relatedness
• Do Adults Model the Educational Values They Espouse?
• False Choice: The dark side of storytelling
• Schools are not Cultural Islands
• Dismembering Literature to Avoid its Truths
• The Fallacy of Market-based Education Reforms
• Markets: Meaning and Morality
• Education Markets: The Higher-Ed debacle
• The Charter School Movement
• The Logical Fallacies Embedded in the "Business Model"
• The Paradox of Wealth: Towards an Expanded Understanding of Self-Interest
• Rethinking Education
• Back to the Future: The "Deficit Model" of Education
• Transformative Education
• Beyond the Business Model
• Rethinking College: Preparing for the Unimagined
• The Expectations Trap
• The Limits of Education
• The Overlooked Role of Questions and Reflection
• Being Educated
• Knowing and Understanding
• Do Computers Understand?
• Relatedness
• The Real Crisis
• A Call to Action.