American Psychology and Schools: A Critique / Edition 1

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Overview

Why has mainstream psychology had little or nothing to offer about tragic incidences of school violence such as the Columbine High School tragedy? Why is there mostly silence from this important profession while debates about school testing rage on?

Dr. Sarason pulls no punches in this searing critique of American psychology and its current and historical disinterest in our schools. This book explains why psychology’s continued aloofness impoverishes the field and prevents it from capitalizing upon its potential to serve the public welfare. He describes how, after World War II, American psychology took steps to respond to societal needs but rebuffed efforts to include the improvement of schools.

Bringing his discussion completely up-to-date, Dr. Sarason includes two extended chapters about the Columbine incident — why psychologists offered few conclusions concerning what those killings signified about schools in general and high schools in particular. He also criticizes test developers for their failure to seek and prevent school personnel from interpreting and using tests in ways that negatively affect students. As readers might expect, Dr. Sarason gets right to the heart of the matter in this powerful depiction of all that psychology can but declines to do for our schools.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780807740873
  • Publisher: Teachers College Press
  • Publication date: 4/27/2001
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 216
  • Product dimensions: 6.12 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.54 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
1 The Aim and Plan of the Book 1
2 Basic and Applied Psychology: A Non-Symbiotic Relationship 16
3 The Boulder Conference: American Psychology at a Choice Point 32
4 American Psychology, the Man from Mars, and Columbine High School 56
5 Columbine High School and Contexts of Productive Learning 78
6 Contexts of Testing and Contexts of Learning 103
7 Standards, Tests, and the Current School Scene 131
8 Schools, and the Values and Culture of Higher Education 145
9 G. Stanley Hall, Lightner Witmer, William James, and John Dewey 164
10 An Imaginary Course in Religion 179
References 195
About the Author 199
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