The Skeptical Visionary: A Seymour Sarason Education Reader

The Skeptical Visionary

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The Skeptical Visionary: A Seymour Sarason Education Reader

The Skeptical Visionary

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Seymour Sarason, in the words of Carl Glickman, is one of America's seminal thinkers about public education. For over four decades his has been a voice of much-needed skepticism about our plans for school reform, teacher training, and educational psychology. Now, for the first time, Sarason's essential writings on these and other issues are collected together, offering student and researcher alike with the range, depth, and originality of Sarason's contributions to American thinking on schooling. As we go from debate to debate on issues such as school choice, charter schools, inclusive education, national standards, and other problems that seem to drag on without solution, Sarason's critical stance on the folly of many of our attempts to fix schools has always had at the center a concern for the main players in our educational institutions: the students, the teachers and the parents. Any plans that cannot account for their wellbeing are doomed to failure. And in the face of such failure, the clarity of Sarason's vision for real educational success is a much-needed antidote to much of the rhetoric that currently passes for substantial debate. A wide ranging and comprehensive selec

Book Details

ISBN
9781566399791
Binding
Hardcover
Authors
Seymour Bernard Sarason
Publisher
Temple University Press
Published Date
December 31, 2003
Language
English
Pages
296
Physical Info
1.02 in H x 9.76 in L x 7.48 in W (1.59 lb)

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