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by Gordon Tait
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Making Sense of Mass Education provides a comprehensive analysis of the field of mass education. The book presents new assessment of traditional issues associated with education – class, race, gender, discrimination and equity – to dispel myths and assumptions about the classroom. It examines...
by Graham Haydon
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
How much can we reasonably expect from education? This book, written by a philosopher of education, casts new light on this question by seeing values education, not as a separate activity within schools, but as an aspect of education that both reflects the surrounding climate of values and can help...
The World Leaders in Education
Lessons from the Successes and Drawbacks of Their Methods
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
The World Leaders in Education: Lessons from the Successes and Drawbacks of Their Methods explores the practices and policies that the highest-ranking nations in education implement to achieve their success. Topics include the education of disadvantaged students; cultural attitudes toward education;...
NABE Review of Research and Practice
Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
The National Association of Bilingual Education (NABE) published electronic issues of Volumes 1 and 2 of the NABE Journal of Research and Practice to offer archival records of 2002 and 2003 NABE conferences presentations. Beginning with Volume 3, the title of the publication is changed to NABE Review...
The Law of Higher Education, 5th Edition
Student Version
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Based on the fifth edition of Kaplin and Lee’s indispensable guide to the law that bears on the conduct of higher education, The Law of Higher Education, Fifth Edition: Student Version provides an up-to-date textbook, reference, and guide for coursework in higher education law and programs preparing...
Natural Learning for a Connected World
Education, Technology, and the Human Brain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Why do video games fascinate kids so much that they will spend hours pursuing a difficult skill? Why don’t they apply this kind of intensity to their schoolwork? These questions are answered by the authors who pioneered brain/mind learning with the publication of Making Connections: Teaching...
Every Person Is a Philosopher
Lessons in Educational Emancipation from the Radical Teaching Life of Hal Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Hal Adams was a legendary radical educator who organized writing workshops with people who had been written off during much of their lives, marginalized for reasons of race, gender, class, and caste. Hal detested the carelessness and neglect his students endured and set about building spaces of respect...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Handbook of Prosocial Education is the definitive theoretical, practical, and policy guide to the prosocial side of education, the necessary second side of the educational coin. Academic teaching and learning are the first side of education; however, academic success depends upon the structures and...
Philosophy and History of Education
Diverse Perspectives on Their Value and Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
The studies of philosophy and history of education are under siege. These studies do not attract large grant funds and, to many, do not seem useful, even while much of educational research is dismissed as inconsequential or self-evident and the crisis in American education deepens. Philosophy and...
Art, Artists and Pedagogy
Philosophy and the Arts in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This volume has been brought together to generate new ideas and provoke discussion about what constitutes arts education in the twenty-first century, both within the institution and beyond. Art, Artists and Pedagogy is intended for educators who teach the arts from early childhood to tertiary level,...
Education and International Development
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
'Honorable Mention' 2016 PROSE Award - Education Practice
Education is fundamental to every aspect of development and there is widespread support across the world for policies that affirm that all children, regardless of their circumstances, have a right to quality schooling. Yet despite concerted...
The International Handbook on the Sociology of Education
An International Assessment of New Research and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2002
The twentieth century has been marked by the expansion of educational opportunities worldwide. It has been the century of education, and the role of the state in the promotion of public education has been decisive. Yet, at the millennium's turn efforts to diminish the role of the state are rapidly...
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,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
The possibilities and importance of a spiritual dimension to education are subjects receiving increased consideration from educational practitioners, policymakers and philosophers. Spirituality, Philosophy and Education brings together contributions to the debate by a team of renowned philosophers...