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Making Minds Less Well Educated Than Our Own
About This Book
In the author's words: "This book is an honest attempt to understand what it means to be educated in today's world." His argument is this: No matter how important science and technology seem to industry or government or indeed to the daily life of people, as a society we believe that those educated in literature, history, and other humanities are in some way better informed, more knowing, and somehow more worthy of the descriptor "well educated." This 19th-century conception of the educated mind weighs heavily on our notions on how we educate our young. When we focus on intellectual and scholarly issues in high school as opposed to issues, such as communications, basic psychology, or child raising, we are continuing to rely on outdated notions of the educated mind that come from elitist notions of who is to be educated and what that means. To accommodate the realities of today's world it is necessary to change these elitist notions. We need to rethink what it means to be educated and begin to focus on a new conception of the very idea of education. Students need to learn how to think, not how to accomplish tasks, such as passing standardized tests and reciting rote facts. In this engaging book, Roger C. Schank sets forth the premises of his argument, cites its foundations in the Great Books themselves, and illustrates it with examples from an experimental curriculum that has been used in graduate schools and with K-12 students. Making Minds Less Well Educated Than Our Own is essential reading for scholars and students in the learning sciences, instructional design, curriculum theory and planning, educational policy, school reform, philosophy of education, higher education, and anyone interested in what it means to be educated in today's world.
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The Great Minds on Education: Plato Meets Grandview Prep
- OBJECTIVES
- Social Studies Skills
- Nature and Character of the Community
- how the individual plays a role in the family unit—reinforce
- how the student’s family compares with that of different cultures—new
- Nature and Process of Change
- how the study of early man helps to develop a sense of time
- how early man’s life compares with our own lives today
- Nature and Character of Peoples, Civilizations, and Cultures
- how to compare different cultures and identify different reasons for similarities—reinforce, develop
- how to contrast different cultures and identify reasons for differences—reinforce, develop
- Nature and Character of Heritage
- how famous individuals have a significant impact on a country’s heritage—reinforce, develop
- how individual ethnic groups have a significant impact on a country’s heritage—reinforce, develop
- Content and Methods of Various Social Studies Disciplines—Geography
- how natural features that appear on the surface of the earth can be represented on maps using lines, shapes, colors, simple drawings, and symbols—reinforce, develop
- how man-made features that appear on the surface of the earth can be represented on maps using lines, shapes, colors, simple drawings, and symbols—reinforce, develop
- Nature and Character of the Community
- Learning, Studying, and Growing skills
- Map Study skills
- How to interpret different kinds of maps—reinforce, develop, prepare.
- How to identify and use map symbols—reinforce, develop, prepare.
- How to distinguish a map from a picture—reinforce, develop, prepare.
- How to use a map legend (key)—reinforce, develop, prepare.
- How to use cardinal and ordinal directions on a map and globe—new, prepare.
- How to use map coordinates—new, prepare.
- How to use map colored pencils and crayons to color maps—reinforce, develop, prepare.
- Identify major cities, rivers, lakes, and boundaries in Florida—new, prepare.
- Examination Skills
- How to review class information as a review for a test—new, prepare.
- How to read over all questions while taking a test—new, prepare.
- Classroom Study Skills
- How to listen, follow instructions, etc.—reinforce, develop, prepare.
- How to participate in discussion—reinforce, develop, prepare.
- Information Gathering, Recording, Organizing, and Communication Skills
- How to gather materials—reinforce, develop, prepare.
- How to organize materials—reinforce, develop, prepare.
- General Maturity Skills
- How to assume responsibilities—reinforce, develop, prepare.
- How to cooperate with others in group activities—new.
- How Geographic Setting and Important Historical Events Influence the Daily Life and the Current Situation of a single State—reinforce, develop.
- Map Study skills
- Social Studies Skills
- IMPLEMENTATION
- Design and Sequence
- Community
- Own Family
- Style of Families—Cultures
- Change
- Early Man
- Men of the Middle Ages
- Modern Man
- People, Civilizations, and Cultures
- American Indians
- Indians native to Florida
- Heritage
- Famous Americans
- Famous Floridians
- Famous Natives
- Community
- Methods
- Community
- Own Family
- Interaction with Family Members
- Location of families on maps—city, state, world
- Style of Families—Cultures
- Selected Literature
- Discussions
- Locations of Cultures
- Own Family
- Change
- Early Man
- Selected Literature
- Discussion
- Timeline
- Booklet
- Medieval Man
- Selected Literature
- Discussion
- Timeline
- Booklet
- Modern Man
- Selected Literature
- Discussion
- Timeline
- Booklet
- Early Man
- People, Civilizations, and Culture
- American Indians
- Discussions
- Migration from Asia Map and Worksheet
- Major groups of Indians—migration and settlement patterns
- Charts and maps
- Five major groups—Eastern Woodland, Southeast, Plains, Desert, and Western Coast
- Selected Literature
- Charts
- Maps
- Pictures
- Indian Sign Language
- Charts
- Alphabets
- World Lists
- Original Stories
- Word Searches and Crossword Puzzles
- Homes of Various Tribes
- Clothes of Various Tribes
- Clothes of Various Tribes
- Indian Crafts in Art
- American Indians
- Community
- Heritage
- Famous Americans
- Christopher Columbus
- Selected Books
- Worksheets
- Illustrations
- Film
- Pilgrims
- Selected Books
- Worksheets
- Illustration
- Daniel Boone
- Selected Books
- Worksheets
- Illustration
- George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Benjamin Franklin
- Selected Books
- Reports
- Worksheets
- Illustrations
- Word Searches and Crossword Puzzles
- Christopher Columbus
- Florida
- Major Units
- Florida as an Indian Land
- Florida Under Spain
- Florida as a State
- Florida Sites and Symbols
- Activities
- Vocabulary
- Lifestyle—charts and illustrations
- Worksheets
- Time Line
- Discussion of Major Events
- Major Units
- Geography
- Land Areas
- Indian Adaptation
- Exploration
- Agriculture
- Resources
- People—Discussed with Florida Vocabulary
- Ponce de Leon
- Vasco da Gama
- Black Caesar
- Thomas Edison
- Other noted Floridians
- Field Trips
- Graves Archaeological Museum
- Miami Museum of Science
- Fort Lauderdale IMAX
- Florida Play
- Florida Wildflower Study
- Florida Map Test
- Florida Test
- Boca Raton
- Boca Facts
- Use of Local Phone Director
- Interviews
- Charts
- Graphs
- Grids
- Maps
- Word Searches and Crossword Puzzles
- Illustrations
- Field Trips
- Industrial
- Downtown
- Famous Americans
- Social Studies Disciplines—Geography
- Map Skills Unit
- Map Show the Earth Kit
- Success with Maps Workbooks
- Multi-Media Sources
- Worksheets
- Original Maps
- Map Skills Unit
- Design and Sequence
- TEXTS AND MATERIALS
- Texts
- Down Bright Roads—Economy
- Tales to Enjoy—Economy
- Lincoln and Washington—Highlights
- Additional Books
- Early Man by F. Clark Howell
- The How and Why Book of Primitive Man by Donald Barr
- People of the Ice Age by Goode
- The Story of Christopher Columbus by Ann McGovern
- A Man Named Columbus by Gertrude Norman
- Columbus by Ingri and Edgar Parin
- Daniel Boone by Katherine E. Wilke
- George Washington by Stewart Graff
- Abraham Lincoln by Ann Colve
- The Pilgrims’ Party by Sadybeth Lowitz
- The American History Scene—Creative Teaching Press
- All Junior Biographies
- World of the American Indian—National Geographic
- The Rain Dance People by Richard Erdoes
- Indian Crafts and Lore by W. Ben Hunt
- Highlights Book About the American Indian
- The Coloring Book of the American Indians by Cathy Bodmer
- American Indian by Bruce Grant
- Indians by Edwin Tunis
- The American Indian by Sydney Fletcher
- Western Indians by Ralph Andrews
- Indians of the Plains by Eugene Rachles
- America and Its Indians by Jerome Leavitt
- Indian Music Makers by Robert Hofsinde
- The Cherokee by Sonia Bleeker
- Indian Festivals by Paul Showers
- Kachina Dolls by Julie Staheli
- Indian Myths by Berstein and Kabrin
- Facts About Our Fifty States by Sue Brandt
- Labs
- Maps Show the Earth
- Map Skills for Beginners
- Multi-Media
- Maps
- Nystrom Readiness U.S. and World Map
- American Geographics Map of Florida
- Globes
- Second Grade Curriculum Binder
- Teacher made Materials
- Texts
- EVALUATION
- Observation to Determine:
- Degree of Interest and Enthusiasm
- Skill ...
- Observation to Determine:
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface What Is an Educated Mind?
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: 1892
- 1: The Great Minds on Education: Plato Meets Grandview Prep
- 2: Thinking and Experience in School
- 3: What Uneducated Minds Need
- 4: The Formally Educated Mind
- 5: What Is Required for a Good Education?
- 6: How High School Got That Way (the Search for the Smoking Gun)
- 7: Producing Educated Minds Is Not the University’s Problem
- 8: Structuring the Learning Experience
- 9: Teaching and Testing in the Modern World
- 10: Horses for Courses: The Story Centered Curriculum
- 11: Rethinking College
- 12: The SCC at Grandview (2002–2003)
- 13: Teaching Realities
- 14: Fifth Grade Follies
- 15: The Eighth and Twelfth Grade Writing Curricula: A Study in Contrasts
- 16: Redesigning the Curriculum
- 17: K–12 Stories
- 18: CMU West
- 19: The Eleventh Grade Hospital Curriculum
- 20: Toward a New Conception of Education
- Epilogue: What’s a Mother to Do?