| Description |
xii, 242 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
"The essays in Heather Mac Donald's collection are all provocative, if not inflammatory, with the most ironically insightful her piece on reforming the contemporary American school system, 'Why Johnny's Teacher Can't Teach.' Mac Donald suggests the system may neither need nor even be open to meaningful reform since it is the perfect complement for certain modern parents' methods of child-raising and for the biases spread by teacher education programs. If children are raised as imperial selves whose willfulness is to be cherished and whose behavior is not to be shaped by adult expectations, by the time such ineducable 'students' reach school it is no surprise that professional 'facilitators' will turn necessity into a virtue and create child-centered classrooms, spaces in which the clueless, still freed from adult authority, will lead the inept. Such parents and such educators, mutually abdicating authority to the wise child, are taking in each other's laundry, and what is there to reform, since all the key players are or should be happy?"--Amazon.com. |
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Reprint. Originally published: c2000. |
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Includes index. |
| Subject |
Political planning.
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Intellectuals.
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Educational change.
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| ISBN |
1566633966 (pbk.) |
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9781566633963 (pbk.) |
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