Very interesting to me....Thanks. I have mainly studied child development and do understand the importance of secure attachment and how to gain autonomy, etc. It has been years since I took any psychology classes, though, and I work more in the study of curricula in the classroom (since I raised five children) and how it curricula is developed. Psychology is embedded in our curricula so Wundt comes up all the time since G. Stanley Hall and John Dewey totally revamped our educational system to one of “true education” to one of “programming”.
Connections of Wundt to American Education:
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/13o.htm
Thanks for sharing the excellent reference. I loved the last paragraph:
“The real difficulty with scientific psychology or other scientific social science is that it seems to be able to produce proof of anything on command, convincing proof, too, delivered by sincere men and women just trying to get along by going along.”
So true! So True!
Wow... Lot’s of excellent topics of discussion on that sight...
“school in America became like school in Germany, a servant of corporate and political management.”
“The secret of commerce, that kids drive purchases, meant that schools had to become psychological laboratories where training in consumerism was the central pursuit.”
“School became jail-time to escape if you could, arenas of meaningless pressure as with the omnipresent “standardized” exams, which study after study concluded were measuring nothing real.”