Schools for Growth: Radical Alternatives To Current Education Models [Paperback]

Contents: Part I:Current Educational Models: Misguided By Scientific Psychology. Can Schools Be Growthful in a Non-Growthful World? Development and Learning: What Psychology Has Constructed. Part II:A New Cultural, Performatory Psychology. Vygotsky's Promise: The Unity Learning-Leading- Development. Performing Development: Non-Epistemological Learning. Part III:Radical Educational Alternatives and Their Developmental Potential. Project Golden Key: A Russian Experiment in Developmental Education. When Democratic Education is Developmental--The Sudbury Valley School Model. The Barbara Taylor School--A Development Community Where Children Learn. Not a Conclusion.
Addresses the relationship between development, learning, and schooling, and links developmental learning and democratic education, employing a Vygostkian perspective.

Holzman passionately argues that educators need to dismiss a traditional emphasis on knowledge and concentrate on 'activating the human capacity to perform--to create ourselves by being who we are not'....This text packs much information in its 150 pages, both theoretically and practically....would serve as a worthwhile course text....[recommended] to any educators interested in rethinking the role of language, communication, epistemology, and performance in their own classrooms....prods us to stretch beyond our current selves and practices.
—Communication Education

...this volume merits inclusion for graduate students and researchers intent on understanding how learning takes place.
—CHOICE

...the book offers a fresh and unusual perspective on Vygotsky that is likely to stimulate discussion and disagreement.lÃ6