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Out of our minds : turning the tide of anti-intellectualism in American schools / by Craig B. Howley, Ed.D., Aimee Howley, Ph.D., and Edwina D. Pendarvis, Ph.D.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Waco, Texas : Prufrock Press Inc., [2016]Copyright date: © 2017Edition: Second edition, revised editionDescription: pages cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781618216007 (Paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.95/0973 23
LOC classification:
  • LC3993.9 .H69 2016
Contents:
What is intellect and why is it important?: The origins of anti-intellectualism in U.S. schools -- The impact of anti-intellectualism on schooling -- The anti-intellectualism of teachers and the context sustaining it -- Families and credentialism: Schooling as a community -- The anti-intellectual university -- Gifted education opposing intellect -- Social justice: Ethical implications for intellect and talent development -- Where might an intellectual education reside? -- Imagining a decent schooling for Intellect.

Previous edition: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references.

What is intellect and why is it important?: The origins of anti-intellectualism in U.S. schools -- The impact of anti-intellectualism on schooling -- The anti-intellectualism of teachers and the context sustaining it -- Families and credentialism: Schooling as a community -- The anti-intellectual university -- Gifted education opposing intellect -- Social justice: Ethical implications for intellect and talent development -- Where might an intellectual education reside? -- Imagining a decent schooling for Intellect.

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