Overview
- Takes a definitive stand in the debate on education reform
- Criticizes data-driven education policy initiatives
- Exposes how politicians, education reformers, corporations, and the media propose that students study and manipulate science, to advance their own self-serving agendas
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (9 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Pseudoscience in Education
-
Front Matter
-
-
Misunderstanding Math and Science Education
-
Front Matter
-
-
The Threat to American Democracy
-
Front Matter
-
-
Rethinking Education
-
Front Matter
-
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Joseph Ganem is a Professor and Chair of Physics, Loyola University Maryland.
He is an author of numerous scientific papers in the fields of laser development and magnetic resonance, and has received grants from Research Corporation, Petroleum Research Fund, and the National Science Foundation for his research on solid-state laser materials.
Prof. Ganem has served on the Maryland State Advisory Council for Gifted and Talented Education. He speaks and writes frequently on consumer and education issues, and has had articles on these topics published in The Baltimore Sun newspaper and The Daily Riff (an online publication on education).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Robot Factory
Book Subtitle: Pseudoscience in Education and Its Threat to American Democracy
Authors: Joseph Ganem
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77860-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77859-4Published: 10 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77860-0Published: 27 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 255
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Popular Science in Education, Mathematics Education, Education Policy, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation