Rituals of Failure: What Schools Really Teach
Rituals of Failure is a provocative examination of how Canadian schools are failing not just children but society as a whole. Through candid portraits of life in our schools, Sandro Contenta lays bare the "hidden curriculum": the almost invisible ways in which schools are slowly breaking the spirits of many children and destroying their years of education.
The hidden curriculum turns schools into factories, better for widget production than for the development of critical thinkers, and places children on an assembly line. Teaching methods that treat children like passive receptors of information are just one example of the education system's enduring rituals of failure.
Contenta proposes a restructuring of schooling based on two themes: education for social change, or critical pedagogy, and a holistic understanding of our world. With his blend of analysis, storytelling, and classroom vignettes, Sandro Contenta provides a lively and accessible examination of this critical issue.
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| title: |
Rituals of Failure: What Schools Really Teach |
| purchase date: |
22-06-2005 |
| publisher: |
Univ of Toronto Pr |
| published: |
01-10-1993 |
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$19.95 |
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Rituals of Failure: What Schools Really Teach |
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$12.70 |
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141160368 |
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Sandro Contenta |
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Paperback |
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0921284705
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