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Educational Myths and Realitiesreviewed by George L. Newsome Jr. - 1970 Title: Educational Myths and Realities Author(s): Ira S. Steinberg Publisher: Addison Wesley , Reading ISBN: , Pages: 240, Year: 1968 Search for book at Amazon.com Professor Steinberg has produced an interesting and challenging
book that is both philosophical and practical. What started out as
a series of essays has become a book. Contents and concerns were
said to "spill over" from chapter to chapter making the work a set
of "more or less intertwining essays."
A certain consistency of treatment of topics, however, runs
throughout the work. The author describes it as "that of uncovering
and classifying ambiguities in concepts, conceptions and
misconceptions and in t positions and arguments which figure in
debate over educational means and ends." In a broader sense, the
book is an analysis of issues and policies in education. The
analysis is that common to ordinary language philosophy, and the
issues are viewed as educational issues in political philosophy and
philosophy of the social sciences. The analysis is not highly
technical though it is cogent, and the issues are practical ones
from the point of view of educators.
Educators may find Part IV, "Crisis and Ambiguity," reinforcing
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- George Jr.
The University of Georgia
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