A01=Frank Smith
anti-testing
Author_Frank Smith
Category=JMC
Category=JNA
educational objectives
engaged learning
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eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
how students learn
inherent learning abilities of children
schools and testing students
student assessment versus learning
student collaborative activities
student learning as a social process
teaching methods
teaching practice
Product details
- ISBN 9780807737507
- Weight: 214g
- Dimensions: 153 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 02 Apr 1998
- Publisher: Teachers' College Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this thought-provoking book, Frank Smith explains how schools and educational authorities systematically obstruct the powerful inherent learning abilities of children, creating handicaps that often persist through life. The author contrasts a false and fabricated ""official theory"" that learning is work (used to justify the external control of teachers and students through excessive regulation and massive testing) with a correct but officially suppressed ""classic view"" that learning is a social process that can occur naturally and continually through collaborative activities. This book should be of interest in a time whan national authorities continue to blame teachers and students for alleged failures in education. It should help teachers and parents to combat sterile attitudes toward teaching and learning and help them to prevent current practices from doing further harm.
Frank Smith was a reporter, editor, and novelist before beginning his formal research into language, thinking, and learning. He has been a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the University of Toronto, the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
