New Era – New Urgency
eBook - PDF

New Era – New Urgency

The Case for Repurposing Education

  1. 403 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

New Era – New Urgency

The Case for Repurposing Education

About this book

New Era – New Urgency: The Case for Repurposing Education explores the unprecedented realities and challenges associated with entering a new era, such as catastrophic climate changes, advanced artificial intelligence, massive demographic shifts, and worldwide digital disinformation campaigns. This era calls for a new urgency in thinking about how we will educate present and future generations of young people. This book is divided into four parts; Part I describes the profound social, technological, and demographic changes that have occurred over four hundred years since the first English settlements in Massachusetts and Virginia. Part II describes four shadows that have served to corrupt these purposes of education: extreme wealth inequality, nativism, white supremacy, and anti-intellectualism. Part III explores the illusions of educational reform that have over-promised college and career success, created an idolatry of math test scores, conflated memorization of facts with conceptual understanding, and confused multiple layers of policy agendas with progress. Part IV depicts F. Joseph Merlino and Deborah Pomeroy's twelve years of experience in Egypt, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Turkey, and the U.S. in helping to craft new purposes of education for model schools in their countries that reflect their aspirations for a new generation.

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Information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9798216338048
Edition
1
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Education Curricula

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Part I: Change and the Purposes of Education
  9. Chapter 1: The Landing—Early Colonial America: Change in the First Lifetime (1620–1700)
  10. Chapter 2: The Colonies Become a Nation: Change in the Second Lifetime (1700–1790)
  11. Chapter 3: The First Agro-Industrial Revolution: Change in the Third Lifetime (1790–1870)
  12. Chapter 4: The Second Industrial Revolution: Change in the Fourth Lifetime (1870–1945)
  13. Chapter 5: The Rise of the American Empire: The Fifth Lifetime (1945–Present)
  14. Part II: The Corruption of Purpose
  15. Chapter 6: Wealth, Education, and the Cycles of Privilege and Poverty
  16. Chapter 7: White Protestant Nativism and “Otherness”
  17. Chapter 8: The Doctrine of Discovery and the Shadow of White Supremacy
  18. Chapter 9: Religionists’ Claims Against Science and Other Deniers
  19. Part III: The Promises and Illusions of Educational Reform
  20. Chapter 10: The Promises and Illusions of “College and Career Success”
  21. Chapter 11: The Math Wars
  22. Chapter 12: The Illusion That Activity Equals Progress
  23. Chapter 13: The Turning Point
  24. Notes
  25. Chapter 14: Welcome to the Dream
  26. Chapter 15: The Design of the Grand Challenges Curriculum
  27. Chapter 16: Higher Education and the Teacher Preparation Cycle—Grappling with Tradition
  28. Chapter 17: Repurposing Education Beyond the Egyptian Experience
  29. Chapter 18: The New Urgency
  30. Bibliography
  31. Index
  32. About the Authors