Bad Education
Debunking Myths In Education
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2012
326 pages
978-0-335-24602-1 (ISBN)
Description
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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Content
- Intro
- 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
