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Wheels in the Head
Educational Philosophies of Authority, Freedom, and Culture from Confucianism to Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
In this popular text Joel Spring provocatively analyzes the ideas of traditional and non-traditional philosophies from Confucianism to human rights regarding the contribution of education to the creation of a democratic society. The goal is to explore how governments use education to control and manage...
Contemplating Curriculum
Genealogies/Times/Places
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Contemplating Curriculum takes up world-renowned curricular scholar, teacher, and mentor Ted T. Aoki’s invitation to contemplate where curriculum scholars situate themselves in their work. At the same time it probes into the historical and present conditions that make it both possible and impossible...
Reconceptualizing Plato’s Socrates at the Limit of Education
A Socratic Curriculum Grounded in Finite Human Transcendence
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Bridging the gap between interpretations of "Third Way" Platonic scholarship and "phenomenological-ontological" scholarship, this book argues for a unique ontological-hermeneutic interpretation of Plato and Plato’s Socrates. Reconceptualizing Plato’s Socrates at the Limit of...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Continuity and Innovation in Honors College Curricula is the second volume in the edited series Honors Education in Transition, which examines the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education,...
How Stories Heal
Writing our Way to Meaning and Wholeness in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
It is time for academics to embrace the fact that nothing is more appealing to readers – especially to our students – than personal stories with meaning-making implications that can touch all lives. No matter the age or stage in life, the personal or collective identity, everyone deals with meaning-making...
Community Schools
People and Places Transforming Education and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
Ferrara and Jacobson go inside community schools across the country to explore the different roles that make this collaborative education reform work. This book provides practitioners, policymakers, family members, youth, and local leaders a greater understanding of the different roles that make up...
by Mustafa Kayyali
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
100 commandments to my daughter Larin
Few advices and principles for life dictated for my daughter Larin
100 commandments to my daughter Larin
Topics and roles for life to be studied and observed by my daughter Larin.
Religion in the Classroom
Dilemmas for Democratic Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Dilemmas surrounding the role for religious beliefs and experiences permeate the school lives of teachers and teacher educators. Inspired by the need for teachers and students to more fully understand such dilemmas, this book examines the relationship between religion and teaching/learning in a democratic...
Teaching on a Tightrope
The Diverse Roles of a Great Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Teaching on a Tightrope offers those seeking to play the teacher's role a way of thinking about the major components of teaching. These components or dimensions are described in terms of pairings that interact and overlap with each other, e.g., teaching as art and science, content and process, theory...
Curriculum in a New Key
The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
Ted T. Aoki, the most prominent curriculum scholar of his generation in Canada, has influenced numerous scholars around the world. Curriculum in a New Key brings together his work, over a 30-year span, gathered here under the themes of reconceptualizing curriculum; language, culture, and curriculum;...
Wounded by School
Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While reformers and policymakers focus on achievement gaps, testing, and accountability, millions of students mentally and emotionally disengage from learning and many gifted teachers leave the field. Ironically, today’s schooling is damaging the single most essential component to education—the...
Teaching and Learning Literacy
Reading and Writing Texts for a Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
David Wray offers a range of practical suggestions for enhancing literacy work in primary and secondary schools (KS 1-3). The book is based on the idea that the purpose of literacy teaching is to enable pupils to understand and create meaningful, whole texts. It deliberately takes a cross-curricular...
Exploring Teachers in Fiction and Film
Saviors, Scapegoats and Schoolmarms
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This book about teachers as characters in popular media examines what can be learned from fictional teachers for the purposes of educating real teachers. Its aim is twofold: to examine the constructed figure of the teacher in film, television and text and to apply that examination in the context of...
Paulo Freire
The Global Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
This collection is the first book devoted to Paulo Freire’s ongoing global legacy to provide an analysis of the continuing relevance and significance of Freire’s work and the impact of his global legacy. The book contains essays by some of the world’s foremost Freire scholars – McLaren, Darder,...