Transforming Mind - A Critical Cognitive Activity

Emergent paradigms in the physical sciences are combined with deconstructionist methods and Vygotsky's theory of speech and thought to formulate new mind-sets for society and education, which will promote nonlinear, nonpatriarchal, nonviolent, anti-authoritarian worldviews on which to build stronger individuals and societies. E. D. Hirsch and other establishment education reformers are shown to be dangerously noncritical and bound to old paradigms that advocate simple solutions to complex problems. Gannaway contends that the nature of contemporary American society is unique and must be creatively analyzed before the educational system can be effectively reformed. She shows teachers how to use familiar texts from popular culture to develop habits of critical thinking that will protect students and citizens from insidious mass media myths.

List of contents

Defining the Problem
Contemporary American Culture: Values, Media, and Technology
In Search of New Paradigms
Deconstruction
Critical Cognitive Activity: A New Paradigm for Education
Appendix: Teaching Materials
Bibliography
Index

About the author

GLORIA GANNAWAY was most recently a Professor at the Institute of North American Studies in Barcelona, Spain. She has also taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Northeastern University,

lkent University, Ankara, Turkey

korova University, Adana, Turkey

and Austin Community College, Texas.

Product details

• Authors: Gloria Gannaway, Gannaway Gloria J.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.1994
• EAN: 9780897892803
• ISBN: 978-0-89789-280-3
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Philosophy of Language, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Language, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Teaching skills and techniques, Philosophy & theory of education, Literary theory, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Teaching skills & techniques, Philosophy and theory of education, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies, Current Events and Issues: Education