The Hazard Called Education by Joseph Agassi : Essays, Reviews, and Dialogues on Education from Forty-Five Years / / edited by Ronald Swartz, Sheldon Richmond.
Joseph Agassi is known primarily among fellow academics as an exemplary historian and philosopher of science; an ardent critic and disciple of Karl Popper; a critical admirer of the work of Michael Polanyi; and a Socratic fly with the “sting of a bee” for all those who wear the intellectual fashions...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2014. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond
- Training to Survive the Hazard Called Education / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond
- The Autonomous Student / Joseph Agassi
- The Myth of the Young Genius / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond
- To Reform Higher Education: Towards a Manifesto / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond
- The Preaching of John Holt: Discussion of John Holt, The Underachieving School / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond
- The Teaching of Critical Thinking: Review of Francis Schragg, Thinking in School and Society / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond
- Rituals to Block the Reform of Education, Review of Jerome S. Bruner’s, The Process of Education / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond
- Top Schools: Review of D. Reynolds, B. Creemers, S. Stringfield, C. Teddlie, and G. Schaffer, eds., World Class Schools / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond
- Educating Elites in Democratic Societies: A Dialogue / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond
- Letter to Diane: Popper on Learning from Experience / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond
- Education for Survival / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond
- Science Education Without Pressure / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond
- Planning for Science and Science Education / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond
- On Mathematics Education: The Lakatosian Revolution / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond
- Mathematical Education as Training for Freedom / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond
- The Injury of Science Text Books: Review Essay of Michael Matthews, Science Teaching / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond
- The Master Relationship: Review of Warwick, Andrew, Masters of Theory / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond
- The Future of (Science) Higher Education / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond
- University President as Gun-Slinger 1: Academic Democracy Threatened / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond
- University President as Gun-Slinger 2: Review of Straight Shooting / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond
- Disseminating Education for the Democratic Way of life Now / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond
- Afterword / Sheldon Richmond
- Last Word: Instruction / Joseph Agassi
- Appendix / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond.