A Roof without Walls: Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy and the Misdirection of American Education

Autor/in	Booker, Michael J.
Titel	A Roof without Walls: Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy and the Misdirection of American Education
Quelle	In: Academic Questions, 20 (2007) 4, S.347-355 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-4852
DOI	10.1007/s12129-007-9031-9
Schlagwörter	Elementary Secondary Education; Classification; Thinking Skills; Teaching Methods; Educational Principles; Misconceptions; Learning Theories; Learning Processes; Educational History; Educational Philosophy; Political Attitudes; Politics of Education; Educational Objectives; Critical Thinking; Basic Skills; Higher Education; Teacher Education; Educational Policy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Denkfähigkeit; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Bildungsprinzip; Missverständnis; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Learning process; Lernprozess; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Kritisches Denken; Basic skill; Grundfertigkeit; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Politics of education
Abstract	Plato wrote that higher order thinking could not start until the student had mastered conventional wisdom. The American educational establishment has turned Plato on his head with the help of a dubious approach to teaching developed by one Benjamin Bloom. Bloom's taxonomy was intended for higher education, but its misappropriation has resulted in a serious distortion of the purpose of the K-12 years. Michael Booker attributes the inability of American children to compete internationally to a great extent to our reliance on Bloom in expecting critical and advanced thinking from kids who have been trained to regard facts and substantive knowledge as unimportant. (Contains 40 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10