A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods--with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world.How? Focus on helping others. Unfortunately, this i the text book required for my college's online XML course. Here they think you're a demon. I ordered this to read to my seven month old for her fi
- Title : Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World
- Author : Neil Postman
- Rating : 4.84 (624 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-5-2
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 219 Pages
- Asin : 0385290098
- Language : English
A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods--with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world.How? Focus on helping others. Unfortunately, this i the text book required for my college's online XML course. Here they think you're a demon. I ordered this to read to my seven month old for her first St. Dan Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson's "The Whole Brain Child" fails to deliver on the titular promise of "revolutionary" parenting strategies to "truly help your kids be happier, healthier, and more fully themselves"; it does, however, provide innovative and effective explanations, packaging, and delivery of many tried-and-true parenting techniques that turn out to be neuroscientifically based.The first four chapters are the love child of the Johns - Medina's "Brain Rules for Baby" and Gottman's "Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child." Like Medina, Siegel and Bryson show great talent for breaking down complex science into readily understandable terms (they even surpass him when explaining implicit memory). I believe the author said it took 10 years to write this book (with a job on the side) and you can tell he put it to good use. Analysis is all about writing proofs, and there is really no other way to learn how to write proofs other than to try problems and compare your answers to the solutions. "Mindsight", as it turns out, is a nigh-useless term that both refers to inward-facing mindfulness and external-facing empathy.Th
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