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Cultivating Inquiry-Driven Learners
A College Education for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Inquiry-driven learners anticipate, embrace, and adapt to disruptive change. Clifton Conrad and Laura Dunek advance a transformative purpose of a college education. They invite stakeholders from across higher education to engage in vigorous dialogue about the aims of a college education—and how...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Higher education and society are becoming increasingly intertwined. Both act as a transmitter of culture, yet many colleges and universities also ideally seek to create a more perfectible society and more enlightened, engaged citizens. When the connections between social structures and post-secondary...
NoNonsense Rethinking Education
Whose knowledge is it anyway?
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
What is knowledge? Who decides what is important? Who owns it? These are central themes that run through this title that aims to change perceptions and understanding of education. Using historical and contemporary examples, the authors examine the motivations, conflicts, and contradictions in education....
Reflective Teaching
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This popular text provides a clear, succinct explanation of how reflection is integral to teachers’ understandings of themselves, their practice, and their context, and elaborates how various conceptions of reflective teaching differ from one another. The emphasis on the importance of both self...
In Principle, In Practice
Museums as Learning Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2007
The science museum field has made tremendous advances in understanding museum learning, but little has been done to consolidate and synethesize these findings to encourage widespread improvements in practice. By clearly presenting the most current knowledge of museum learning, In Principle, In Practice...
Unlearning
or 'How NOT To Be Governed?'
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
One view of education (appealing to the Latin root "educare" "to train or mold") aims to fill students' heads with knowledge and turn them into disciplined, normalized and potentially productive members of the workforce.An alternative (appealing to the Latin root "educere" "to lead out or draw out")...
Not for Profit
Why Democracy Needs the Humanities - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education.
Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic...
by Nel Noddings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Eminent educational philosopher Nel Noddings draws on John Dewey's foundational work to reimagine education's aims and curriculum for the 21st century. Noddings looks at education as a multi-aim enterprise in which schools must address needs in all three domains of life: home and family, occupational,...
An Agenda for Equity
Responding to the Needs of Diverse Learners
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
The vast numbers of new educational policies, programs, and practices being implemented as educational reform in American public schools have not been analyzed for short or long-term effectiveness or impact on students and their learning. Not only are conditions for many learners still a concern,...
Language and Power in Post-Colonial Schooling
Ideologies in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Critiquing the positioning of children from non-dominant groups as linguistically deficient, this book aims to bridge the gap between theorizing of language in critical sociolinguistics and approaches to language in education. Carolyn McKinney uses the lens of linguistic ideologies—teachers’ and...
Citizenship Education in China
Preparing Citizens for the "Chinese Century"
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
There is a flourishing literature on citizenship education in China that is mostly unknown in the West. Liberal political theorists often assume that only in democracy should citizens be prepared for their future responsibilities, yet citizenship education in China has undergone a number of transformations...
Constructing Critical Consciousness
Narratives that Unmask Hegemony and Ideas for Creating Greater Equity in Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Critical Multicultural Perspectives on Whiteness Reader aims to help us rethink "race," racism, and whiteness as narratives with deep roots in the past that contribute to the current social order, and function to reproduce the social hierarchy in which we live. The reader includes several...
Education and Religion
Global Pressures, Local Responses
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In most countries, whether secular or otherwise, education and religion are closely interlinked and no matter how hard the state tries, it can be very difficult to remove the ties between them. This book investigates the links between education, religion and politics.
The dominant feature in...
With the Best of Intentions
How Philanthropy Is Reshaping K-12 Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Bringing together a mix of researchers and practitioners, With the Best of Intentions examines the major goals of recent philanthropic efforts and looks at some of the key lessons--for educators, philanthropists, policymakers, and community leaders--of philanthropic contributions to schools and school...