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| For the intelligent educatorThere once was a man named Descartes
Who along with Newton had real smarts
He created a linear world view
Which education it did screw
'Tis time to study the whole, not parts.
Very InterestingI have to admit I found this book very interesting. At first I thought the ideas in it were kind of weird. Yet upon reflection it seems what William Doll has written has quite a bit a validity and merit.
Now I had to read this for my Master's. For me to say I enjoyed it when I HAD to read it is saying something. With that said, you can see I am the first person to actually review the book. It probably will never have a general audience to read it, nor will it be sold in convenience stores. Yet if you teach, you might find it of interest and worth the trip to the Amazon.com store.
Product DescriptionIn this book on the post-modern perspective on the curriculum, the author asserts that the post-modern model of organic change is not necessarily linear, uniform, measured and determined, but is one of emergence and growth, made possible by interaction, transaction, disequilibrium and consequent equilibrium. Transformation, not a set course, the book argues, should be the rule, and open-endedness is an essential feature of the post-modern framework. In the book, the author envisages a curriculum in which the teacher's role is not causal, but transformative. The curriculum is not the race course, but the journey itself; metaphors can be more useful than logic in generating dialogue in the community; and educative purpose, planning and evaluation is flexible and focused on process, not product.
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