Inside the Secret Garden: The Progressive Decay of Liberal Education - Couverture souple

Burkard, Tom

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0955464218 ISBN 13 : 9780955464218

Editeur : The University of Buckingham Press, 2007

Synopsis

Tom Burkard explores the central paradox of progressive education in this thought-provoking read.
Schools in Britain and the United States helped lay the foundations for the greatest civilization the world has ever known. But for the last three decades, they have been in a state of perual crisis.
Despite unprecedented increases in education spending, standards are plummeting and at least 20% of our children can't even read.
Tom Burkard shows how an intellectually misguided elite, claiming to be experts in child development and psychology, have subverted the will of the people and used our children as guinea pigs in a grand experiment that has gone horribly wrong.
In this book, Burkard highlights the central paradox of progressive education - despite the professed aim of creating a democratic society, it would be almost impossible to design a system better suited to perrating both class diions and the gulf between the haves and have-nots.
Provocative and outspoken, Burkard outlines his solutions to these problems, making this essential reading for everyone interested in the future of our schools, our country, and our ture.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Buckingham Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0955464218
• ISBN 13: 9780955464218
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible