The Robot Factory : Pseudoscience in Education and Its Threat to American Democracy

Name: The Robot Factory
Brand: Springer International Publishing AG
SKU: 9783319778594
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ISBN: 9783319778594

1st ed. 2018

by Joseph Ganem

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 3319778595

ISBN-13 9783319778594

Edition 1st ed. 2018

Publisher Springer International Publishing AG

Imprint Springer International Publishing AG

Country of Manufacture CH

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 10th, 2018

Print length 255 Pages

Weight 450 grams

Dimensions 23.40 x 16.40 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Education: examinations and assessment Educational strategies & policy Educational strategies and policy Examinations & assessment Central / national / federal government policies Central government policies

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This book exposes a disturbing misuse of the scientific method to advance policies and agendas that are in fact detrimental to both science and education. The author, a physics professor, examines two related trends in education - the practice of "data-driven" reform and the disparaging of the traditional liberal arts in favor of programs with a heavy emphasis on science and technology. Many of the reforms being foisted on educators have more in common with pseudo-science than real science. The reduction of education to a commodity, and the shilling of science as a means to enhance corporate profits, lead to an impoverished and stunted understanding of science in particular, and of education in general.

How is it possible for:

• schools with all students learning at grade-level to be rated as failing?

• teachers to be rated as ineffective after all their students meet their learning outcomes?

• rising grade-school math standards to result in more college students needing remedial math?

• politicians to disparage scientists and their results but argue that more students should study science?

These bizarre outcomes have happened and are the result of an education system that misuses and misrepresents math and science in the classroom and in crafting education policies. This book exposes the flawed and fallacious thinking that is damaging education at all levels throughout the United States, and makes a compelling case for rethinking the standardized, optimized, and quantified approaches in vogue in education today to accommodate the different needs of individual teachers and students.

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