Psychological Theory and Educational Reform: How School Remakes Mind and Society

ISBN-13: 9780521825108 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 358 str.

David R. Olson

Opis

David Olson offers a theoretical account of the relationship between the minds of learners and the institutional structure of the school. Why do efforts at reforming schools routinely fail? It is because schools are by and large successful in achieving their two primary responsibilities. They meet the needs of the bureaucratic society which funds them as well as the goals and beliefs of the students who attend them. In meeting the needs, however, minds and societies are altered in conspicuous and important ways that are revealed in this book.

Recenzje

'David Olson's Psychological Theory and Educational Reform is a masterpiece.' Teachers College Record

Spis treści

Part I. The Discourse of Education: 1. The discourse of education; 2. Educational theory and educational reform; Part II. Schools as Institutions: 3. Rediscovering institutions; 4. School as a bureaucratic institution; 5. Institutionalized knowledge and personal belief; 6. Science and schooling as documentary practices; 7. The Psychology of persons in institutions; Part III. Schools as Pedagogical Environments: 8. The rediscovery of the mind; 9. Understanding and the growth of knowledge; 10. Some preliminaries to the history of schooling; 11. Some preliminaries to the history of pedagogy; 12. Pedagogy as a bridge from the subjective to the normative; Part IV. Prospects for the Study and Reform of Education: 13. Responsibilities for teaching and learning; 14. The achievement and assessment of virtue; 15. A framework for educational theory; 16. Coda: psychological theory and educational reform.