This philosophy of education also prevails in some precincts of higher education. Especially in fields where academics teach radical politics in the guise of "critical thinking," conveying content that would make students conversant with knowledge in a field is widely considered to constitute bad teaching. So in addition to imagining ele…
This philosophy of education also prevails in some precincts of higher education. Especially in fields where academics teach radical politics in the guise of "critical thinking," conveying content that would make students conversant with knowledge in a field is widely considered to constitute bad teaching. So in addition to imagining elementary school kids being subjected to the kind of instruction Wexler describes, imagine college students who don't know how market systems work sitting in a circle and describing the ill effects of neoliberalism. Or imagine those same students not understanding how American political institutions work but earning top grades for identifying the multiple forms of oppression inherent in liberal democratic forms of government.
This philosophy of education also prevails in some precincts of higher education. Especially in fields where academics teach radical politics in the guise of "critical thinking," conveying content that would make students conversant with knowledge in a field is widely considered to constitute bad teaching. So in addition to imagining elementary school kids being subjected to the kind of instruction Wexler describes, imagine college students who don't know how market systems work sitting in a circle and describing the ill effects of neoliberalism. Or imagine those same students not understanding how American political institutions work but earning top grades for identifying the multiple forms of oppression inherent in liberal democratic forms of government.