本书是美国"后现代教育之父",美国课程专家小威廉姆斯?多尔教授有关其一生学术思想和研究总结的著作。全书回溯了他五十五年的学术生涯以及他对其学术领域做出的理论与实践贡献。本书共分五大部分进行介绍,首先作者叙述了他偶然走上后现代与复杂性教育的研究之路的心路历程。第二部分中,作者通过探讨杜威,皮亚杰,布鲁纳,怀特海的思想,来叙述自己在研究过程中的突破与改革。第三部分中,作者则通过论述利奥塔与杜威等人的思想,对后现代教育观的结构,形式与组织进行了反思。第四部分着眼于复杂性理论,并具体探讨了该理论在具体教育之中的实践问题。最后一部分是作者对于实际教学的反馈,并在其中提出了他的“4R理论”。
作者在本书中集中讨论了人口过剩问发展的观念忽略了一个重要的事实,即我们的地球只有有限的承载力。因此,我们应该毫不犹豫地控制人口数量。他驳斥了那种认为靠良好的意愿和自愿的节制就足以共得奖为代价的个人获利使村庄的公地牧场被过度放牧,因为每一个牧人都想放养更多的牲口——过度放牧的结果由所有牧人所有。
This volume makes available to a student audience one of the most controversial and miunderstood works published during the last two hundred years.Malthus`s Essay an Principle of Population began life in 1798 as a polite attock on some post-French-revolutionary speculations on the theme of social and human hopes set by the tension between population growth and natural resources.This edition is based on the authoritative variorum of the mature versions of the Essay published over the period 1803 to 1826.this was the period during which Malthus collected further demographic evidence and developed a distinctive stance as a political moralist on a number of important policy questions that were central to public debate during and immediatedy after the Napoleonic wars-the period in which Britain the adequacy of its political institutions and economic policies in the face of rapid population growth,political and industrialization. The introduction and notes are aimed specifically at a modern student audience i
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