Learning from Our Mistakes - A Reinterpretation of Twentieth-Century Educational Theory

"Learning From Our Mistakes would be an important addition to academic libraries that support graduate and undergraduate programs in education, psychology, and developmental psychology. Perkinson's analysis challenges the validity of induction as the way human beings learn, building a case instead for the trial-and-error approach.... Throughout the book--from the opening chapter, which traces the epistemological history of education, to the last chapter, which describes Perkinson's proposed theory--[students of educational philosophy will find] themselves challenged by Perkinson's refreshing views. The selected bibliography and the index are appropriate. Levels: upper-division undergraduate and graduate."-Choice

About the author

HENRY J. PERKINSON is a Professor in the Department of Culture and Communication, New York University./e He has written extensively on educational history and educational theory, including Learning From Our Mistakes (Greenwood, 1984). He has also published Getting Better: Television and Moral Progress (1991).

Product details

• Authors: Henry Perkinson, Henry J. Perkinson
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.1984
• EAN: 9780313242397
• ISBN: 978-0-313-24239-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Weight: 397 g
• Series: Contributions to the Study of Education
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Current Events and Issues: Education