Lying about the Wolf: Essays in Culture and EducationMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 01.03.1997 - 336 Seiten Solway explains that the current generation of students, raised in a nonhistorical and iconic environment, do not live in time as an emergent, continuous medium in which the complexities of experience are parsed and organized. Their psychological world is largely devoid of syntax - of causal, differential, and temporal relations between events. The result is precisely what we see about us: a cultural world characterized by a vast subpopulation of young (and not so young) people for whom the past is an unsubstantiated rumour and the future an unacknowledged responsibility. Solway claims that contemporary educators have become cultural speculators who disregard a basic truth about how the mind develops: that it needs to be grounded in reality and time. In education, as in almost every other cultural institution, the sense of reality and the dynamic of time have "virtually" disappeared, leading to the deep disconnectedness we experience on every level of "human grammar," from the organization of the community to the organization of the sentence. Lying about the Wolf is not only an exploration of current pedagogical issues but also, and perhaps primarily, a cultural analysis for which the subject of education provides a focus. Solway argues that we cannot hope to solve the educational problem unless we are prepared to deal with the larger cultural predicament. |
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... remains with me . ( Its disappearance is symptomatic of its central theme . ) John Ralston Saul's analysis in Voltaire's Bastards of the rational prepossession of the modern era is essential reading for anyone interested in isolating ...
... remains with me . ( Its disappearance is symptomatic of its central theme . ) John Ralston Saul's analysis in Voltaire's Bastards of the rational prepossession of the modern era is essential reading for anyone interested in isolating ...
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... remains woefully undeveloped in the majority of contemporary students is merely the obverse of the contiguity dysfunction apparent in their written work . One cannot be a stranger to time , inimical to the slow , almost proprioceptive ...
... remains woefully undeveloped in the majority of contemporary students is merely the obverse of the contiguity dysfunction apparent in their written work . One cannot be a stranger to time , inimical to the slow , almost proprioceptive ...
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... remains the only way of providing them with the egg tooth they require to saw their way out of the shell of their immaturity which is the real and unnamed predicament that confronts us all . Anything else is only tinkering . If we could ...
... remains the only way of providing them with the egg tooth they require to saw their way out of the shell of their immaturity which is the real and unnamed predicament that confronts us all . Anything else is only tinkering . If we could ...
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... different from his or her predecessor , and one bearing a disconcerting resemblance , after the finderscope has been adjusted , to the Quebecois novelist Rejean Ducharme's écrivantome , the writer - ghost who remains 20 Lying about the ...
... different from his or her predecessor , and one bearing a disconcerting resemblance , after the finderscope has been adjusted , to the Quebecois novelist Rejean Ducharme's écrivantome , the writer - ghost who remains 20 Lying about the ...
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... remains in need of the ghost - writer to get the writing done.31 APPENDIX One of the reasons the issue we are addressing remains so resistant to solution is located in the communication patterns associated with the home in an ...
... remains in need of the ghost - writer to get the writing done.31 APPENDIX One of the reasons the issue we are addressing remains so resistant to solution is located in the communication patterns associated with the home in an ...
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2 Dead Teachers Society | 32 |
3 Balnibarbian Architecture | 41 |
4 The Anecdotal Function | 68 |
5 What about Food? | 78 |
6 Script and Nondescript | 94 |
7 The Bipolar Paradigm | 108 |
8 Charlie Dont Surf | 136 |
9 Teaching Down or Learning Up | 153 |
Notes | 189 |
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