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Education unchained : what it takes to restore schools and learning / Erik Lidström.
Van Pelt Library LB2806.36 .L53 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lidström, Erik, 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Privatization in education.
- Schools--Decentralization.
- Schools.
- Education and state.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Education must be set free. It must be returned to parents and to pupils"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
- The Plan of the Book
- Notes
- 2. The Knowledge Problem
- Markets and Why We Trade
- Hunter-Gatherers in the Great Society
- The Rules of the Great Society
- The Division of Labor and the Division of Knowledge
- The Roles of Competition
- Quality Is Not One Thing
- Why We Cannot Think Ourselves toward Better Things
- We Can Become Experts on Teaching but Not on Education
- Reform
- Why School Vouchers Do Not Work
- 3. Threats to Improved Education
- Reforming "Our" Schools Is Impossible
- Why We Seek Social Conformity
- The Ever-Present Threat of Paternalism
- How Parents Decide
- School as a Tribal Ritual
- Our Urge to Rationally Plan Prevents Learning
- The Definition of Education Is Not Self-Evident
- Private Schools Are Actually Very Affordable
- 4. School, Work, and Growing Up
- Norberg's Assistants
- How We Grow Up
- Play and School
- 5. The Ethics of State Education
- Government Compulsion, Government Conformity
- Using Children as Tools
- Treating Children as Cattle
- What Is Left for the State to Do?
- 6. The Rise of the Government School System
- Sweden
- Britain
- The Third World Today
- New York State
- The Five-Stage Rocket of Compulsory Education
- The Flow of Information Stops
- The Hard and Magnificent Nineteenth-Century Government School System
- 7. The Art, Science, and Nonsense of Education
- The Art of Education
- The Science of Education
- Folk "Science"
- Practice Makes Perfect
- The Delusions of Education Reformers and Pedagogues
- Why Education Must Be Tuned to the Level of the Student
- Why Education Reforms Almost Always Make Things Worse
- 8. Der Untergang: The Downfall of the Government School System
- Overview of the Decisions in Sweden
- The Social Misdistribution of Education
- Against Meritocracy and the High Status of Theoretical Studies
- Improving Social Skills
- Abraham Lincoln's Dog's Tail
- Empirical Trials for the Nine-Year Unity School
- How Education Reform Broke the Back of the School System
- All Hell Breaks Loose
- 9. The Downward, Self-Reinforcing Spiral of Death
- The Fall in Quality for Academic Studies
- The Fall in Quality for Those Who Studied at the Realskola but Not at High School
- The Fall in Quality for Those Who Did Not Go to the Theoretical Realskola
- Why Don't We Return to the Old System?
- America, Britain, and the Spiral of Death of Government Systems
- Comments on the Finnish School System
- 10. The Kind of Education We Never Had
- 11. The Negative Externalities of Government Education
- Idle Minds
- Government School as a Source of Crime and Angry Music
- State Schools as a Destroyer of Exceptional Talent
- State Schools as a Source of Irresponsibility and Immaturity
- State Schools as a Source of Unequal Opportunity
- State Schools as a Source of Social Disintegration
- On the Unfairness of Having Parents with Differing Wealth
- 12. The Private Origins of Science and Higher Education
- Ancient Greece
- China
- India
- The Lands of Islam
- Medieval Europe
- The Repeated Cycle of Private Initiative, Government Involvement, Stagnation, and Death in Academic Institutions
- Kealey's Three Laws of the Funding of Civil Research and Development
- 13. An Educational, Socioeconomic Motorway Pileup
- The Unreflecting Belief in the Goodness of Science
- The Politicization of Science
- Peer Review and the Balkanization of Science
- The Mass Production of Graduates and PhDs
- The Spiraling Cost of College
- From Primary Education to College in a Free System
- A Better, Larger, and More Diverse Academy
- 14. Replanting the Beautiful Tree
- Civil Disobedience
- Higher Education Unchained
- Promoting Freedom and Democracy
- Appendix A Estimates of the Fall of Quality in Sweden
- The Fall in Quality of Teachers
- Chaos in the Classroom
- Measures of Outcomes and Some Possible Contributing Causes
- The Early Economic Outcome
- Appendix B The Parable of the Citizen Vehicle
- References.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lidstrom, Erik, 1964- Education unchained
- ISBN:
- 9781475858112
- 1475858116
- 9781475858129
- 1475858124
- OCLC:
- 1143843985
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