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ED088077 CS201048
Title: Must We Educate?
Author(s): Bereiter, Carl
Pages: 140
Publication Date: 1973
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632
($6.95 cloth, $2.45 paper)
Journal Announcement: RIEJUL1974
This book attacks current educational practices and proposes new approaches
and alternatives to education. The contents include: "Must We
Educate? which discusses moral dilemmas in education, inequality,
institutionalization of personal choice, and alternatives to education;
"The Search for Morally Acceptable Education Goals," which
examines educational goals and morality and the curriculum; "The
Right to Make Mistakes," which discusses compulsory training
versus compulsory education, four conceptions of the child, and children's
rights; "Is Inequality Here To Stay?" which discusses skill
deficiencies, improving teaching procedures, and teaching essential
skills; "The Institutionalization of Personal Choice," which
discusses control of individual decision making; "Schools Without
Education," which discusses the role of the school, informal
schooling, child care, and alternative proposals; "A Better Life
for Children," which looks at quality of experience, cultural
resources, and child care workers; "Optional Adolescence,"
which discusses different ways to spend the adolescent years; "Education
and Society's Needs," which presents some of the social needs
that can be projected into demands for education; and "Will Anything
Happen?" which presents a summary of the previous discussion.
(WR)
Descriptors: *Educational Change; *Educational Improvement; *Educational
Innovation; *Educational Practices; *Educational Quality; Educational
Technology; Instructional Improvement
