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Book Review of
“I won’t learn from you” And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment
Taking the Road Less Traveled
January Stephanopoulos
Professor Flowers
Education 2130
October 25, 2014
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Taking the Road Less Traveled Ever since the Americas began formal education the curriculum has been geared towards the dominate party, for centuries pedagogists have explored not only the act of teaching but also the act of learning. Today, those in the field of education take a variety of approaches. Some explore individual differences and developmental stages; others explore problem solving and assessments. While there are also those who explore the nature of the subject being taught, and the transfer of learning. Herbert Kohl’s stance on such matters is somewhat outside of the box. Kohl is an expert in the field of education; teaching for over forty-eight years, a prominent orator and writer as well as a strong advocate for …show more content…
To quote Martin Luther King, Jr. “…There are some things within our social order to which I am proud to be maladjusted... segregation and discrimination… mob rule… physical violence and to tragic militarism. I call upon you to be maladjusted to such things” (pg. 129). In the book’s final essay Creative Maladjustment and the Struggle for Public Education Herbert Kohl calls upon educators, parents, and students to be maladjusted to the current curriculum of public education. He describes this act as creative maladjustment. Further defining it as “…breaking social patterns that are morally reprehensible, taking conscious control of one’s place in the
Book Review of
“I won’t learn from you” And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment
Taking the Road Less Traveled
January Stephanopoulos
Professor Flowers
Education 2130
October 25, 2014
TAKING THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED 2
Taking the Road Less Traveled Ever since the Americas began formal education the curriculum has been geared towards the dominate party, for centuries pedagogists have explored not only the act of teaching but also the act of learning. Today, those in the field of education take a variety of approaches. Some explore individual differences and developmental stages; others explore problem solving and assessments. While there are also those who explore the nature of the subject being taught, and the transfer of learning. Herbert Kohl’s stance on such matters is somewhat outside of the box. Kohl is an expert in the field of education; teaching for over forty-eight years, a prominent orator and writer as well as a strong advocate for …show more content…
To quote Martin Luther King, Jr. “…There are some things within our social order to which I am proud to be maladjusted... segregation and discrimination… mob rule… physical violence and to tragic militarism. I call upon you to be maladjusted to such things” (pg. 129). In the book’s final essay Creative Maladjustment and the Struggle for Public Education Herbert Kohl calls upon educators, parents, and students to be maladjusted to the current curriculum of public education. He describes this act as creative maladjustment. Further defining it as “…breaking social patterns that are morally reprehensible, taking conscious control of one’s place in the