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Report on Education

Report on Education S. A. RAYNER Developing the Mind Every now and then there appears an article which can be recommended as essential reading for everyone interested in education. Lee J. Cronbach’s Educatiort Afiproaches Period of Constrwctive Change. (Tht? Nation’s Schools, May 1959>, which contains sufEicient ideas for several articles, falls into this category. One of the principal themes is the desirability of promoting research into the development of disciplined minds. Such a project has been distinctly unfashionable among psychologists since the decade after the 1890’s when James reported his experiments into memory training and Thorndike’s analyses of the inter-relationships of secondary school examination results led him to condemn the doctrine of transfer of training. Since that time, references to intellectual discipline or proposals that we should seek “ to develop the mind ” of students would lead the supporter of such discredited doctrines to be “ howled down as an exponent of the outmoded faculty psychology ”. Although the work of James and Thorndike may have been valuable as a corrective to educational weaknesses of their own day, the attack on formal discipline undoubtedly went too far in the United States and ” many educators and psychologists gave up the effort http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Education SAGE

Report on Education

Rayner, S. A.
Australian Journal of Education , Volume 3 (3): 5 – Nov 1, 1959
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SAGE
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© 1959 Australian Council for Educational Research
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0004-9441
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2050-5884
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10.1177/000494415900300305
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S. A. RAYNER Developing the Mind Every now and then there appears an article which can be recommended as essential reading for everyone interested in education. Lee J. Cronbach’s Educatiort Afiproaches Period of Constrwctive Change. (Tht? Nation’s Schools, May 1959>, which contains sufEicient ideas for several articles, falls into this category. One of the principal themes is the desirability of promoting research into the development of disciplined minds. Such a project has been distinctly unfashionable among psychologists since the decade after the 1890’s when James reported his experiments into memory training and Thorndike’s analyses of the inter-relationships of secondary school examination results led him to condemn the doctrine of transfer of training. Since that time, references to intellectual discipline or proposals that we should seek “ to develop the mind ” of students would lead the supporter of such discredited doctrines to be “ howled down as an exponent of the outmoded faculty psychology ”. Although the work of James and Thorndike may have been valuable as a corrective to educational weaknesses of their own day, the attack on formal discipline undoubtedly went too far in the United States and ” many educators and psychologists gave up the effort

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Published: Nov 1, 1959

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