Productive Learning: Science, Art, and Einstein's Relativity in Educational Reform - Tapa blanda

"Fans and disciples of Seymour Sarason all know that education reform needs a change in course. Indeed, the daily practices of schools, education research, and US educational policy all need such a change. Neither Professors Glazek and Sarason, nor anyone else, can give yet a complete description of what these changes would involve. But when the change happens, the leaders of the change will all acknowledge their considerable debt to this book. The reason is that the needed change in school classrooms will be very hard to recognize as such unless these leaders are thoroughly familiar with the concept of  'a context of productive learning.' In this book, Glazek and Sarason collaborated on an extraordinarily daunting attempt to create and analyze a context of productive learning in which, simultaneously, Sarason was the student and Glazek the teacher and vice versa. They attempted what must surely be a 'Mt Everest' example of the concept: explanation of Einstein's famous formula, E=mc2. The result should be of intense interest to a broad audience concerned with the present problems of science education as well as the nature of a context of productive learning."