Educational Psychology-w/..coop.learn. Book

Judging from this book, educational psychology is a field of social science that examines formal education, a fundamentally horrible and inefficient method of knowledge transferral, and attempts to make it less awful, without actually changing the most horrible and inefficient parts about it. Since the industrial revolution, students have been shunted into age-based grade levels and classrooms (is there any other way to learn?) and guided through a planned curriculum by a teacher (suck from the teat of knowledge, little ones!) but now, thanks to educational psychologists, they'll also be ushered into "student-centered learning schemes" and "cooperative learning roles" and "project learning tasks" and other such jargony endeavors that continue to ignore the absolute Orwellian absurdity of knowledge coming from a lesson plan and textbook.

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