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Author Egan, Kieran.

Title Getting it wrong from the beginning : our progressivist inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget / Kieran Egan.

Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  370.1 Eg13g 2002    ---  Available
Description x, 204 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-198) and index.
Contents The strange case of Herbert Spencer -- Learning according to nature's plan -- Development, progress, and the biologized mind -- The useful curriculum -- Research has shown that.
Subject Education -- Philosophy.
Progressive education -- United States -- History.
Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903 -- Influence.
Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
Piaget, Jean, 1896-1980
ISBN 0300094337 (clothbound : alk. paper)

 
    
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