Bad Education : Debunking Myths In Education.

Bad Education : Debunking Myths In Education.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adey, Philip
Other Authors: Dillon, Justin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Maidenhead : McGraw-Hill Education : Open University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Education > Research.
Teaching.
Learning.
Education > Research
Learning
Teaching
Nonfiction.
Education.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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