Psychological Theory and Educational Reform

How School Remakes Mind and Society

David R Olson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:16th Jun '03

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This book provides theoretical account of the reason behind the failure of most educational reform.

For well over a century educational reformers have looked for a breakthrough in the sciences of psychology and pedagogy that would dramatically improve the effectiveness of schooling. This book shows why such an ambition is an illusion.For well over a century educational reformers have looked for a breakthrough in the sciences of psychology and pedagogy that would dramatically improve the effectiveness of schooling. This book shows why such an ambition is an illusion. Schools are institutions which attempt to balance the needs of a bureaucratic society that funds them with the personal goals, interests, hopes and ambitions of the students who enroll in them. Reform efforts attempt to realign that balance without any clear conception of how the two are related. This book offers a theoretical account of the relation between the minds of learners and the institutional structure of the school that would account both for the ways that schooling remakes minds and societies and why such institutions are resistant to change.

'David Olson's Psychological Theory and Educational Reform is a masterpiece.' Teachers College Record

ISBN: 9780521825108

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm

Weight: 622g

358 pages