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Scientism and Education
Hyslop-Margison, Emery J.; Naseem, Ayaz
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Description for Scientism and Education
Hardback. Offers a critical examination of the mounting pressure placed on educators to apply scientific principles to improve education. This title undermines the prevailing view that a science of education is possible or desirable. Num Pages: 134 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 880.
We presently live in an era dominated by scientism, an ideology that believes that science (and its rationalist foundation in modern epistemology) has an undeniable primacy over all other ways of seeing and understanding life and the world, including more humanistic, mythical, spiritual, and artistic interpretations. In being critical of scientism as I am, I am not against science per se: modern science and its ways of understanding and knowing the world are valuable, and we should be grateful for them. But it is the hegemony of the habits of mind that manifest pervasively in education that privilege science education, ... Read more
We presently live in an era dominated by scientism, an ideology that believes that science (and its rationalist foundation in modern epistemology) has an undeniable primacy over all other ways of seeing and understanding life and the world, including more humanistic, mythical, spiritual, and artistic interpretations. In being critical of scientism as I am, I am not against science per se: modern science and its ways of understanding and knowing the world are valuable, and we should be grateful for them. But it is the hegemony of the habits of mind that manifest pervasively in education that privilege science education, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
Number of Pages
134
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402066771
SKU
V9781402066771
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