Argues that compulsory education is a detriment to developing critical thinking skills and trains students to become subservient to the government.
John Taylor Gatto Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)
15. Dezember 1935 – 25. Oktober 2018
John Taylor Gatto, ein anerkannter Kritiker der Schulpflicht, bietet eine tiefgründige Untersuchung des Bildungssystems. Seine Arbeit stellt den vorherrschenden Diskurs über Bildung in Frage und deckt die einschränkende Natur konventioneller pädagogischer Ansätze auf. Gatto plädiert für eine radikale Neugestaltung dessen, wie wir lehren und lernen, und regt die Leser dazu an, die wahren Ziele von Bildung zu hinterfragen.
- 2010
- 2002
Dumbing Us Down
The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, 10th Anniversary Edition
- 144 Seiten
- 6 Lesestunden
With over 70,000 copies of the first edition in print, this radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers’ bestseller for 10 years! Thirty years in New York City’s public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine. This second edition describes the wide-spread impact of the book and Gatto’s "guerrilla teaching." John Gatto has been a teacher for 30 years and is a recipient of the New York State Teacher of the Year award. His other titles include A Different Kind of Teacher (Berkeley Hills Books, 2001) and The Underground History of American Education (Oxford Village Press, 2000).
- 1992
Dumbing us down : the hidden curriculum of compulsory schooling
- 104 Seiten
- 4 Lesestunden
Gatto reveals the deadening heart of compulsory state schooling: assumptions and structures that stamp out the self-knowledge, curiosity, concentration, and solitude essential to learning. In his 26 years of award-winning teaching in New York City's public schools, Gatto has found that independent study, community service, large doses of solitude, and apprenticeships with adults of all walks of life are the keys to helping children break the thrall of our conforming society. Gatto urges all of us to find ways to reengage children and families in actively controlling our culture, economy, and society.
