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The stigma of genius : Einstein and beyond modern education

Title: The stigma of genius : Einstein and beyond modern education / Joe L. Kincheloe, Shirley R. Steinberg, Deborah J. Tippins.
Author: Kincheloe, Joe L.
Publication: Durango, Colo. : Hollowbrook Pub., 1992.

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256 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Taking as their metaphor the young Albert Einstein, who as a child was alternately ridiculed and dismissed by his teachers as an inattentive and unteachable student, three ... educators attack the entire philosophy which has guided the public schools throughout the twentieth century, a system of education and thinking essentially grounded in the Newtonian-Cartesian concepts of a static world.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-256).

Contents

1. Introduction: Einstein's Lessons for Learners -- 2. Einstein the Student, Einstein the Teacher -- 3. Einstein and the Purposes of Schooling -- 4. Rolling the Epistemological Dice -- 5. Natures of Genius -- 6. Einstein's Unique Thinking Style -- 7. Einstein's Search for Unity -- 8. What About Teaching? -- 9. And Beyond Modern Education -- 10. References.

ISBN

0893416924
9780893416928
0893417297
9780893417291

LCCN

92019359

OCLC

ocm25965391
25965391
SCSB-2035943

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Princeton University Library