Why Knowledge Matters: Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories

by E.D. Hirsch and E.D. Hirsch Jr.

Book Overview

In Why Knowledge Matters, E. D. Hirsch, Jr., presents evidence from cognitive science, sociology, and education history to further the argument for a knowledge-based elementary curriculum.

Influential scholar Hirsch, author of The Knowledge Deficit, asserts that a carefully planned curriculum that imparts communal knowledge is essential in achieving one of the most fundamental aims and objectives of education: preparing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612509525
• ISBN13: 9781612509525
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Harvard Education PR
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"