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- catalog abstract ""In Doomed to Fail, Paul A. Zoch argues that what America most needs to improve its schools is not necessarily better teachers but a wholesale shift in the way it thinks about who or what creates academic success. If we continue to look to teachers to produce our students' achievement, he maintains, we can continue to expect low student performance. It is the student from whom we must demand more." "Tracing the development of educational ideas in the United States from the time of William James to the sophisticated educational thinkers of the present day, Mr. Zoch shows how schools have adopted an obsessive focus on teachers and their teaching methods, meanwhile neglecting the disciplined effort and hard work that students must expend in order to achieve. Picking up on this prevailing view of society, most students now see their success as a product of what their teachers do in class. So they devote little effort to their studies and, predictably enough, learn little. Their dedication to schoolwork, as Mr. Zoch demonstrates, falls far short of that routinely displayed by students in other, less prosperous countries."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13235382.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""In Doomed to Fail, Paul A. Zoch argues that what America most needs to improve its schools is not necessarily better teachers but a wholesale shift in the way it thinks about who or what creates academic success. If we continue to look to teachers to produce our students' achievement, he maintains, we can continue to expect low student performance. It is the student from whom we must demand more." "Tracing the development of educational ideas in the United States from the time of William James to the sophisticated educational thinkers of the present day, Mr. Zoch shows how schools have adopted an obsessive focus on teachers and their teaching methods, meanwhile neglecting the disciplined effort and hard work that students must expend in order to achieve. Picking up on this prevailing view of society, most students now see their success as a product of what their teachers do in class. So they devote little effort to their studies and, predictably enough, learn little. Their dedication to schoolwork, as Mr. Zoch demonstrates, falls far short of that routinely displayed by students in other, less prosperous countries."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-229) and index.".
- catalog description "William James and pre-progressive educational thinking -- The progressive paradigm, part one : behaviorism and the individualized stimulus -- The progressive paradigm, part two : the quest for social and individual integration -- The progressive paradigm, part three : the cult of the child -- The revolving revolution : education after behaviorism -- Pedagogue-centric education : the omnipotent/incompetent teacher, the irrelevant student, and the "textbook garbage" -- Where education succeeds : the absence of the progressive paradigm in Japan -- What is to be done?".
- catalog extent "xviii, 237 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Doomed to fail.".
- catalog identifier "1566635675 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Doomed to fail.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : Ivan R. Dee,".
- catalog relation "Doomed to fail.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "370/.1/0973 22".
- catalog subject "Education United States Philosophy History.".
- catalog subject "LB14.7 .I63 2004".
- catalog subject "Student-centered learning United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "William James and pre-progressive educational thinking -- The progressive paradigm, part one : behaviorism and the individualized stimulus -- The progressive paradigm, part two : the quest for social and individual integration -- The progressive paradigm, part three : the cult of the child -- The revolving revolution : education after behaviorism -- Pedagogue-centric education : the omnipotent/incompetent teacher, the irrelevant student, and the "textbook garbage" -- Where education succeeds : the absence of the progressive paradigm in Japan -- What is to be done?".
- catalog title "Doomed to fail : the built-in defects of American education / Paul A. Zoch.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".