Teaching Children Thinking

• Autores: Seymour Papert
• Localización: Innovations in education and teaching international, ISSN 1470-3297, Vol. 9, Nº 5, 1972, págs. 245-255
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper is dedicated to the hope that someone with power to act will one day see that contemporary research on education is like the following experiment by a nineteenth‐century engineer who worked to demonstrate that engines were better than horses. This he did by hitching a 1/8 HP motor in parallel with his team of four strong stallions. After a year of statistical research he announced a significant difference. However, it was generally thought that there was a Hawthorne effect on the horses ... the purring of the motor made them pull harder.