Bad education : debunking myths in education / / edited by Philip Adey and Justin Dillon
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| Titolo: |
Bad education : debunking myths in education / / edited by Philip Adey and Justin Dillon
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| Pubblicazione: | Maidenhead, Berkshire ; ; New York, : Open University Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xxv, 297 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 371 |
| Soggetto topico: | Education - Research |
| Charter schools | |
| Education - Aims and objectives | |
| Teaching | |
| Learning | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | AdeyPhilip |
| DillonJustin | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Bad Education : Debunking myths in education; Contents; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1: School organization; 1 Are there 'good' schools and 'bad' schools?; 2 Is vocational education for the less able?; 3 Grouping pupils by ability in schools; 4 Class size: is small better?; 5 Supporting learning?: How effective are teaching assistants?; Part 2: Teaching methods; 6 Traditional versus progressive education; 7 Synthetic phonics: the route to reading?; 8 Is informal education better than formal education?; 9 The social and emotional aspects of learning (SEAL) |
| 10 Computers good, calculators bad?Part 3: Learners; 11 Left-brain, right-brain, brain games and beanbags: neuromyths in education; 12 From fixed IQ to multiple intelligences; 13 Learning styles: unreliable, invalid and impractical and yet still widely used; 14 'TV is bad for children' - less emotion, more science please!; 15 Playing with emotions: why emotional literacy trumps emotional intelligence; 16 The dyslexia debate; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | As Ben Goldacre's Guardian Bad Science column debunks popular scientific myths, this book aims to do the same for education myths and unjustified claims. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Bad education |
| ISBN: | 0-335-24602-8 |
| 9780335246021 | |
| 9780335246014 | |
| 033524601X | |
| 9781283961295 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910462842303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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