A Century of Skills Movements

Autor/in	Ravitch, Diane
Titel	A Century of Skills Movements
Quelle	In: American Educator, 34 (2010) 1, S.12-13 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0148-432X
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Educational History; Relevance (Education); Teaching Methods; Traditionalism; Theory Practice Relationship; Academic Education; Knowledge Level; Time Perspective + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Relevance; Relevanz; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Traditionalismus; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Akademische Bildung; Wissensbasis; Zeitbezug
Abstract	The author is a historian of education and has written often about the educational enthusiasms and fads of the past century. One of her books, titled "Left Back," tells the story of the rise and fall of one fad after another across the 20th century. In brief, what she has found is that in the land of American pedagogy, innovation is frequently confused with progress, and whatever is thought to be new is always embraced more readily than what is known to be true. Thus, pedagogues, policymakers, thought leaders, facilitators, and elected officials are rushing to get aboard the 21st-century-skills express train, lest they appear to be old-fashioned or traditional, these terms being the worst sort of opprobrium that can be hurled at any educator. In this article, the author shows that there is nothing new about the proposals of the 21st-century-skills movement. They only echo progressive ideas of the past 100 years. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10