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Classroom Authority
Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
This book describes and analyzes authority relationships in classrooms through explorations of theory, prior research, and contemporary qualitative studies. The emphasis is on the social construction of authority and the crucial role authority plays in K-16 teachers' pedagogy and students' academic...
Creating and Sustaining Arts-Based School Reform
The A+ Schools Program
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Taking a close look at the issue of the arts and school reform, this book explores in detail how the incorporation of the arts into the identity of a school can be key to its resilience. Based on the A+ School Program, an arts-based school reform effort, it is much more than a report of a single case...
Beyond the University
Why Liberal Education Matters
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Contentious debates over the benefits—or drawbacks—of a liberal education are as old as America itself. From Benjamin Franklin to the Internet pundits, critics of higher education have attacked its irrelevance and elitism—often calling for more vocational instruction. Thomas Jefferson, by contrast,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The essays in this book are focused on the production and the use of textbooks in different countries and different periods of European history. By indicating some particularly important moments in the evolution of textbooks, they allow a better understanding of the educational history and of some...
by Keith C. Barton, Linda S. Levstik
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2004
In Teaching History for the Common Good, Barton and Levstik present a clear overview of competing ideas among educators, historians, politicians, and the public about the nature and purpose of teaching history, and they evaluate these debates in light of current research on students' historical thinking....
Christian Privilege in U.S. Education
Legacies and Current Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Using critical curriculum theory as its lens, this book explores the relationship between religion—specifically, Christianity and the Judeo-Christian ethos underlying it—and secular public education in the United States. Despite various 20th-century court decisions separating religion and education,...
Disavowed Knowledge
Psychoanalysis, Education, and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
This is the first and only book to detail the history of the century-long relationship between education and psychoanalysis. Relying on primary and secondary sources, it provides not only a historical context but also a psychoanalytically informed analysis. In considering what it means to think about...
Schooling America
How the Public Schools Meet the Nation's Changing Needs
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Patricia Graham is one of America's most esteemed historians of education, formerly Dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Director of the National Institute of Education. In this informative volume, Graham offers a vibrant history of American education in the last century. Drawing on...
by Laurel Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Laurel Tanner examines closely the practices and policies of Dewey’s Laboratory School from their inception to the current day. Dewey’s Laboratory School: Lessons for Today provides a wealth of practical guidance on how schools today can introduce Deweyian reforms the way they were originally—and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Democratic political systems and the democratic way of life is aspired by most people around the world. Democracy is considered to be morally superior to other forms of political systems as it aspires to secure civil liberties, human rights, social justice and equality before the law for everyone regardless...
Urban High Schools
Foundations and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This multidisciplinary overview introduces readers to the historical, sociological, anthropological, and political foundations of urban public secondary schooling and to possibilities for reform. Focused on critical and problematic elements, the text provides a comprehensive description and analyses...
A New Paradigm for Global School Systems
Education for a Long and Happy Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007
This volume—a major new contribution to Joel Spring’s reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education—offers a new paradigm for global school systems. Education for global economic competition is the prevailing goal of most national school systems. Spring argues that recent international studies by econom
The New Idea of a University
The Groundbreaking Mission of Happy Science University
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
In this book, Ryuho Okawa, the author and founder of Happy Science University, shares his vision for Happy Science University, a new type of university that has no equivalent anywhere in the world. This groundbreaking philosophy will provide unique values to the existing academic world and greatly advance...
Learning the Spirit of the Founder of Happy Science University Part I (Overview)
What is Academic Discipline Based on a Religious Spirit?
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Happy Science University (HSU) is a religious institution for higher education, founded with an aim to create a new civilization. The founder, Master Ryuho Okawa, passionately talks about the founding spirit of HSU and the challenge of religious Truth. He aspires to reorganize academic discipline based...