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From what I saw he is arguing that education is about cultural transmissionand that it should not be influenced by scientific insight. While to a
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I argue that the criticism of Piaget by Catherine Scott in a recent
AERA-D post is problematic, and close with three questions:
(1) Does Kieran Egan (2004) ("Getting it Wrong from the Beginning:
Our progressivist inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and
Jean Piaget") or anyone else give any solid evidence for such
criticism?;
(2) Would anyone, care to comment on Kieran Egan's opinion that both
Dewey and Piaget were:
(a) "wrong from the start," and
(b) heavily influenced by Herbert Spencer?";
(3) If Dewey was and is WRONG, why is Dewey-like pedagogy so
seemingly successful in introductory physics education?
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Kieron Egan's provocative response to those questions is contained in
a recent post on AERA-L "Piaget & Dewey: Down for the Count? -
FORWARD from Kieran Egan," [Hake (2005b)] that can be accessed by
clicking on <http://tinyurl.com/bsvfs>.