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ERIC Number: EJ640142
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0161-4681
Why Education Is So Difficult and Contentious.
Egan, Kieran
Teachers College Record, v103 n6 p923-41 Dec 2001
Suggests reasons why education is difficult and contentious, arguing that educational thinking draws on only three fundamental ideas (socializing the young, shaping the minds by a disciplined academic curriculum, and facilitating the development of students' potential) and that the problems in education are due to these ideas, which are fatally flawed and incompatible with each other. (SM)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Education, Socialization, Student Development
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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