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Getting It Wrong from the Beginning

Getting It Wrong from the Beginning Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget

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Publisher's Synopsis

In this study, educational theorist Kieran Egan argues that the ideas upon which public education was founded in the last half of the 19th century were wrong. He explains how we have come to take mistaken concepts about education for granted and why this dooms our attempts at educational reform.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780300094336
Publisher: Yale University Press
Imprint: Yale University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 370.1
DEWEY edition: 21
Number of pages: 204
Weight: 380g
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 19mm