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Peer reviewedWiggins, Grant – Educational Leadership, 1989
The problem of student ignorance is really about adult ignorance of how to achieve thoughtful and long-lasting understanding. We will not escape our predominantly medieval view of curriculum, premised on knowledge as static and finite, until education learns the lessons of modern intellectual inquiry. Curricula should be organized around essential…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Comprehension, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development
