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The Education Mirage: How Teachers Succeed and Why the System Failsreviewed by Amy Vetter - 2006 Title: The Education Mirage: How Teachers Succeed and Why the System Fails Author(s): Ira Winn Publisher: iUniverse, New York ISBN: 0595291422, Pages: 169, Year: 2005 Search for book at Amazon.com Over the last century educators views about knowledge and coming to know have changed from a belief that knowledge is transmitted or handed over to students to a belief that knowledge is constructed and reconstructed between participants in specific situations (Wells, 2001, p. 180). This complex view of learning processes proposes that people learn through actively solving problems rather than passively receiving information. In The Education Mirage: How Teachers Succeed and Why the System Fails, Professor Ira Winn adds to this debate by arguing that many educators continue to base their teaching on misperceptions and false assumptions about how students receive information and learn, which he refers to as the mirage of teaching and learning (p. 3). From a teachers perspective, he discusses how these misperceptions influence the current state of education and proposes reforms for public schools in the United States.
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- Amy Vetter
University of Texas at Austin E-mail Author AMY VETTER is a Ph.D candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at The University of Texas at Austin. She is currently working on her dissertation Creating Spaces: Negotiating Identities through Talk in an Urban High School Classroom. Her areas of interest include language and literacy, literacy and identity, discourse analysis, and secondary education.
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