Dissolving Educational Fictions
Education Nation(s): The State of Play The best of intentions, untempered with robust evidence and adaptive planning, can and have led to maladaptive decisions and policies. Spheres of education in the ‘West’, i.e., the Anglo-American domain, aren’t exempted. For the past few decades, State Boards of Education in America have tried to weather the unwelcome intrusion of pseudo-scientific principles into their science classrooms by misguided fundamentalists, sometimes without much success. Quite aside from that, the recent No Child Left Behind…