Word: redbook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Knowledge about the "enterprise" however, is precisely what the Redbook had called "the major iam of the course,"--and it had insisted that the actual science taught was to be" chosen to subserve those aims...
...about the physical world--not as a means of learning "method" but also for the sake of learning some facts about the physical world. Which particular facts a student learned concerned the Committee little if at all. The Bruner Committee did concede the importance of familiarizing students with the Redbook's "scientific enterprise," but insisted that the way to do this was simply to teach science. Knowledge about the "enterprise," however, is precisely what the Redbcook...
...Redbook Committee had wanted to give students some idea of the processes by which scientific discoveries were made by showing how these things had been done in the past. This ideal was rejected by the Bruner Committee, which was far more interested in the content of the solutions and discoveries. But by directing the attention of students to unsolved problems, Mrs. Bunting hopes to accomplish the goal of the Redbook Committee, at least in part, with a course which could not be attacked as historical rather than scientific...
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...these arguments over the administration of the General Education Program accept the general viewpoint of the Redbook--that a student should take General Education courses because they teach him something he ought to know. There is, however, a justification for the Program which does not depend at all on the material taught being essential to some sort of generally educated man. Most of those who take this view are dismayed by the greater and greater specialization among undergraduates, however helpful such early specialization may be to those who wish to get an early start on their doctorates, intense specialization also...