Using the Medical Model in Education

Can Pills Make You Clever?

David A. Turner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

190 Seiten

2012 | NIPPOD
Continuum Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-1-4411-0427-4 (ISBN)

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Medicine, and particularly neuroscience, appears to offer the kind of educational quick fixes that politicians and the public would love to have. Following media reports of drugs that seemingly improve learning and memory, David Turner examines commonly held beliefs about learning, knowledge and intelligence, and critically assesses such claims. Using the Medical Model in Education then moves beyond the immediate, fashionable or any specific substance, to a deeper examination of what society does or should expect in terms of results, from the educational system. Many of the underlying problems facing science and education have persisted, with slight modifications, over decades and even centuries. By pointing to parallels between current debates and those presented in works by Aldous Huxley, Ludwig Wittgenstein or Noam Chomsky, the book shows that the important question is not whether or not we should administer modafinil in our schools, but whether we should think about education in medical terms at all.

David A. Turner is Professor of Education at the University of Glamorgan, UK. Before he entered academia, he was a physics teacher in secondary schools in England. He won the World Education Fellowship Prize in 2006 for his book, Theory of Education. He is currently Visiting Professor at Hiroshima University until July 2010.

Chapter 1: Medical models in education; Chapter 2: The physical basis of intelligence; Chapter 3: The thinking machine: What is 'hard-wired' in the brain?; Chapter 4: What is intelligence?; Chapter 5: Thinking harder or thinking smarter?; Chapter 6: Attention Deficit; Chapter 7: Hyperactivity Disorder - Or just having something better to do?; Chapter 8: Two different approaches to learning; Chapter 9: Discipline and Respect; Chapter 10: Whither education?; Chapter 11: Conclusions; References.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.1.2012
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung ► Unterrichts-Handreichungen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Schmerztherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-4411-0427-5 / 1441104275
ISBN-13	978-1-4411-0427-4 / 9781441104274
Zustand	Neuware