A short history of educational ideas Book

A very complex read. Doll takes us from the rise of modernity all the way to what he considers the next step in humanities social organization: the post-modern. He then makes propositions as to what curriculum should be in a post-modern society. Doll states that education as it is now is based on descartian and newtonian world views, that is, education is deterministic. He draws from all the classic psychologists and pedagogists to develop his post-modern paradigm: he goes from Piaget (living systems0 to Prigogine (chaotic order), from Bruner (cognitive science) to Dewey and Whitehead (process thought). What Doll leaves the reader with is a new way of developing curriculum to oppose the current Tyler rational that permeates US education, which is based on Taylorism and scientific curriculum development.