form only?

Mike Cole (mcole who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Sun, 22 Aug 1999 16:10:32 -0700 (PDT)

While slaving over a chapter on schooling and development I got ahold of
a recent educational psychology book. I was looking for summaries of a lot
of issues discussed here on XMCA in two domains: reading and math. Guess
what, there was almost NOTHING about either topic in the book! It was
all about teaching strategies and classroom social-cognitive processes.

Is that typical?
What does it lead to? I can't even understand it for elementary school
grades but when we get into highschool level, yee gads! Is the appropriate
form(s) of social organization of the classroom day really independent
of the content being taught?

mike