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Frank Smith (1) (1928–)

Auteur de The Book of Learning and Forgetting

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20 oeuvres 602 utilisateurs 8 critiques 1 Favoris

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Frank Smith has been a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the University of Toronto, the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. A number of his books and professional afficher plus articles have become classics among educators afficher moins

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Date de naissance
1928
Sexe
male
Nationalité
UK
Lieu de naissance
England
Lieux de résidence
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Études
Harvard University (Ph.D.|Psycholinguistics)

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There’s a lot to this one. Education is broken, and this book looks into one reason why. The premise? There is a “classic theory of learning” that we all grew up with and a historical theory.

We’re all familiar with the classic theory. You go to class with others of your age, your teacher goes over a set curriculum, you take a test on the subjects and are left feeling great or like you failed. Repeat this process to “learn”.

This process hasn’t been around that long. Look back 200 years ago and people learned completely differently. It seemed to work well, as it led to enlightened artists and ancient philosophers. This book looks into what led to this change in education, and what we can do to get back to the old ways.

Many of the concepts of the old ways connected with me. Leaning towards hands on learning, favoring fun and mentor ship over assessments, mixing up groups to include people of different skill levels and more. It left me wanting to figure out what a curriculum would look like and just how much fun it would be to learn with an excited group of learners in this way.
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adamfortuna | 2 autres critiques | May 28, 2021 |
My only criticism is that so much more research has been done since this, but the approach is still valid as is some of the material
 
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echaika | Sep 29, 2009 |
although this book moves along in the mystery it is somewhat plodding, a sense the author thinks he is 'modern' pervades this tome which is somewhat off putting, he's maybe trying too hard.still it does make me want to get to the end to find out 'who dunnit' so i guess it is working as it is supposed to.
 
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myykkall | Apr 6, 2009 |

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Œuvres
20
Membres
602
Popularité
#41,741
Évaluation
½ 3.6
Critiques
8
ISBN
139
Langues
5
Favoris
1

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