Changing Ideas about Student Interest

Autor/in	Watras, Joseph
Titel	Changing Ideas about Student Interest
Quelle	In: American Educational History Journal, 31 (2004) 2, S.129-135 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1535-0584
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Human Capital; Progressive Education; Relevance (Education); Student Interests; Learner Engagement; Educational Philosophy; Educational Policy; Academic Education; Criticism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Humankapital; Reformpädagogik; Progressive Erziehung; Relevance; Relevanz; Studieninteresse; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Akademische Bildung; Kritik
Abstract	Seeking to distance themselves from the educational patterns they dislike, some contemporary advocates of academic studies overlooked an important problem that they share with the progressives they criticize. For example, Diane Ravitch blamed the absence of academics in schools on what she called the progressive educators' efforts to provide socially useful information or to cater to students' interests. In her complaint, Ravitch argued that academic study was socially useful and that challenging academic studies could be fascinating. Thus, she seemed to want academic teachers do the same things she claimed the progressives were wrong to have tried to do: present socially useful information and cater to students' interests (Ravitch 2000, 15). To make it clear that the same problems confronted the commentators favoring academic studies and the progressive educators they criticize, this paper explains how several progressive educators wanted to make academic studies interesting to the students by connecting the information and the skills to socially useful practices. The author hopes that students who enjoyed learning would seek to develop their abilities and the society could profit from the students' contributions as adults. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10