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From School Delusion to Design
Mixed-Age Groups and Values-Led Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
This book explains how school organization by age (grade) alone, sets schools on a factory course that is harmful and ultimately self-defeating to all involved and to ecology. It returns us to three systems thinking concepts; purpose, measures, and method. The book explains why school managers and...
by Molly Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
What makes for peace as lived? What images of peace issue from examination of daily experience? What can be gleaned from reflection upon the topic for the meanings and makings of peace in our world? Considering that to work for peace, we must begin with ourselves and with our children, Molly Quinn...
Herbartianism and its Educational Consequences in the Period of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
The Case of Slovenia
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Herbartianism is without a doubt one of the most important pedagogic movements of the 19th century. While quoting J. F. Herbart, his followers – Herbartians – built a pedagogic system which strongly marked educational theory and practice not only in Europe. The book offers a detailed insight into...
Classroom Struggle
Organizing Elementary School Teaching in the 19th Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
During the institutionalization of mass schooling in the 19th century, teaching large groups of children became both a necessity and a matter of regulation. For officials and inspectors the systematization of classroom interactions was important for effective results. However, while systematization...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Dieser Band dokumentiert eine Reihe von Beiträgen der XIX. Internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz Bildungsreform und Lehrerausbildung zum Thema Bildungswissenschaft auf der Suche nach globaler Identität, die vom Ministerium für Bildung und Wissenschaft der Republik Litauen, der Litauischen...
Curriculum
Decanonizing the Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Curriculum: Decanonizing the Field is a fresh and innovative collection that is concerned with the totalitarian Western Eurocentric cult that has dominated the field of curriculum studies. Contributors to this volume challenge dominant and counter-dominant curriculum positions of the Western Eurocentric...
We Don't Need Another Hero
Struggle, Hope and Possibility in the Age of High-Stakes Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his latest book, bestselling author Gregory Michie critiques high-stakes schooling and provides a powerful alternative vision of teaching as a humanistic enterprise, students as multidimensional beings, and schools as spaces where young people can imagine and become, not just achieve. Drawing on...
Culture, Poverty, and Education
What's Happening in Today's Schools?
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Culture, Poverty, and Education: What’s Happening in Today’s Schools? is intended to not only discuss 5 myths about the culture of poverty and its effects on education, but provide some resources on alternatives for educator’s to better address this growing barrier to student achievement in today’s schools.
From Risk to Resiliency
A Resource for Strengthening Education's Stepchild
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
From Risk to Resiliency, offers opportunities for program developers to bring together personal, closely held stakeholder values with program and classroom practices, opportunities only now being realized.
Essential Measures for Student Success
Implementing Cooperation, Collaboration, and Coordination Between Schools and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This book unveils “essential measures” that create a revitalized educational system of which educators and parents can use to promote student success. When these measures are applied properly, the benefits include, eradicating student fear, elevating student motivation, improving school attendance,...
The First-Year Urban High School Teacher
Holding the Torch, Lighting the Fire
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
The First-Year Urban High School Teacher: Holding the Torch, Lighting the Fire tracks co-author Paul Weinberg during his first year of teaching as he is introduced to the daily tribulations of an urban Los Angeles high school. Paul's father, Carl Weinberg, who fifty years earlier himself began his...
Auto/biography & Pedagogy
Memory & Presence in Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
In the tradition of educational narrative inquiry, this book explores diverse ways of thinking, writing and theorizing from auto/biographic experience, in language that is rooted in practice yet challenges the authoritative discourses of educational policy, theory and research. The book moves from...
by Hilary Janks
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Hilary Janks addresses key questions about literacy and power in this landmark text that is both engaging and accessible.
Her central argument is that competing orientations to critical literacy education − domination (power), access, diversity, design − foreground one over the other, but...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Making Math Learning Fun for Inner City School Students is an effective tool for educators and a textbook for professors of higher education. The concepts discussed in the book provide a body of knowledge that will enable leaders to understand the critical issues surrounding inner city school students...