Bad education : debunking myths in education / / edited by Philip Adey and Justin Dillon

• Pubblicazione: Maidenhead, Berkshire ; ; New York, : Open University Press, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxv, 297 pages)
• Disciplina: 371
• Soggetto topico: Education - Research; Teaching; Learning
• Altri autori: 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: 1-283-96129-6; 0-335-24602-8; 9780335246021; 9780335246014; 033524601X; 9781283961295
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817281103321
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