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New Era - New Urgency: The Case for Repurposing Education explores the unprecedented realities and challenges associated with entering a new era, such as catastrophic climate changes, advanced artificial intelligence, massive demographic shifts, and worldwide digital disinformation campaigns. This era calls for a new urgency in thinking about how we will educate present and future generations of young people. This book is divided into four parts; Part I describes the profound social, technological, and demographic changes that have occurred over four hundred years since the first English settlements in Massachusetts and Virginia. Part II describes four shadows that have served to corrupt these purposes of education: extreme wealth inequality, nativism, white supremacy, and anti-intellectualism. Part III explores the illusions of educational reform that have over-promised college and career success, created an idolatry of math test scores, conflated memorization of facts with conceptual understanding, and confused multiple layers of policy agendas with progress. Part IV depicts F. Joseph Merlino and Deborah Pomeroy's 12 years of experience in Egypt, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Turkey, and the U.S. in helping to craft new purposes of education for model schools in their countries that reflect their aspirations for a new generation.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: New Era - New Purpose
Part I: Change and the Purposes of Education
Chapter 1: The Landing, Early Colonial America - (1620-1700)
Chapter 2: The Colonies Become a Nation - (1700-1790)
Chapter 3: The First Agro-Industrial Revolution - (1790 - 1870)
Chapter 4: The Second Industrial Revolution - (1870-1945)
Chapter 5: The Rise of the American Empire - (1945- Present)
Part II: The Corruption of Purpose
Chapter 6: Wealth, Education and the Cycles of Privilege and Poverty
Chapter 7: White Protestant Nativism and "Otherness"
Chapter 8: The Discovery Doctrine and the Shadow of White Supremacy
Chapter 9: Religionists' Claims Against Science and Other Deniers
Part III: The Promises and Illusions of Educational Reform
Chapter 10: The Promises and Illusions of "College Career and Success"
Chapter 11: The Math Wars
Chapter 12: The Illusion that Activity Equals Progress
Chapter 13: The Turning Point
Part IV: Repurposing Education for a New Era
Chapter 14: Welcome to the Dream, Reda Abou Serie and Hala El-Serafy
Chapter 15: The Design of the Grand Challenges Curriculum, Reda Abou Serie and Hala El-Serafy
Chapter 16: Higher Education, the Teacher Preparation Cycle, and Grappling with Tradition, Reda Abou Serie and Hala El-Serafy
Chapter 17: Repurposing Education Beyond the Egyptian Experience
Chapter 18: The New Urgency
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