Making minds less well educated than our own / Roger C. Schank.

By:

Schank, Roger C, 1946-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 324 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1410610381
9781410610386
0805848770
9780805848779
0805848789
9780805848786
9781135615116
113561511X
9781135615062
1135615063
9781135615109
1135615101

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making minds less well educated than our own.DDC classification:

370/.1 22

LOC classification:

LB41 .S293 2004eb

Other classification:

81.02
5,3
DI 4000

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Contents:

Making Minds Less Well Educated Than Our Own; Contents; Preface: What Is an Educated Mind?; Acknowledgments; Prologue: 1892; 1-The Great Minds on Education: Plato Meets Grandview Prep; 2-Thinking and Experience in School; 3-What Uneducated Minds Need; 4-The Formally Educated Mind; 5-What Is Required for a Good Education?; 6-How High School Got That Way (the Search for the Smoking Gun); 7-Producing Educated Minds Is Not the University's Problem; 8-Structuring the Learning Experience; 9-Teaching and Testing in the Modern World; 10-Horses for Courses: The Story Centered Curriculum.

Summary: In the author's words: "This book is an honest attempt to understand what it means to be educated in today's world." Schank's argues that no matter how important science and technology are, as a society we believe that those educated in literature, history and other humanities are more worthy of the descriptor "well educated."

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In the author's words: "This book is an honest attempt to understand what it means to be educated in today's world." Schank's argues that no matter how important science and technology are, as a society we believe that those educated in literature, history and other humanities are more worthy of the descriptor "well educated."

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