Psychological science, of the sort envisioned by the Politics-based
Education movement (or is that the Evidence-based Politics movement?), has
been in charge of solving the problems of education for fifty years now.
The problems appear to be worse. Do we really need intellectual arguments
to suggest that it's time to try something else? Or do we just need to keep
trying to vote in a government that is really interested in social change?
(a majority obviously is no longer quite enough to do this ...)
JAY.
At 10:16 PM 10/27/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Is anyone interested in presenting a response to the idea that psychological
>science is going to solve all our educational ills at the 2003 APA convention
>(it's in Toronto Aug 7-10). One thread of the meetings will be psychology
>and education, specifically, how to support the OERI initiative and "No
>Child Left Behind." I am planning to present and hope some others want to
>join me in creating a symposium. Let me know if you're interested.
>Lois
>
>Check out my new website—loisholzman.net.
>Lois Holzman
>Director
>East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy
>500 Greenwich Street
>New York NY 10013
>212-941-8844
>www.eastsideinstitute.org (updated 9/15/02
>
>
>In a message dated 10/27/02 7:56:13 PM, kdbeach@pilot.msu.edu writes:
>
><< Not to belabor a point (nor to interrupt the discussion of Gordon's
>article), but here are a couple of excerpts from a recent Office of
>Educational Research and Improvement call for proposals. It is a sad
>illustration of the current U.S. government's policy toward
>educational research and the constitution of science. Note
>particularly the final paragraph on preferred scientific research
>methodology. >>
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JAY L. LEMKE
Educational Studies
University of Michigan
610 East University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jaylemke
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