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Social Efficiency and Instrumentalism in Education
Critical Essays in Ontology, Phenomenology, and Philosophical Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Distinct among contemporary philosophical studies focused on education, this book engages the history of phenomenological thought as it moves from philosophy proper (the European phenomenological-hermeneutic tradition) through curriculum studies. It thus presents the "best of both worlds"...
Creative Teaching for All
In the Box, Out of the Box, and Off the Walls
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Creative Teaching for All as an antidote to rapidly growing pressures for quick and easy teacher results, and constant evaluations. Employ creative ideas to resist teaching to the (usually factual) test, and to the many choking rules, standards, cores, and state regulations that strangle motivation...
Research-Based Unit and Lesson Planning
Maximizing Student Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
By integrating the best of current research and practice in curriculum planning this book presents that comprehensive topic in a manageable form. Examples throughout are representative of different grade levels and subjects areas. It should be understood at the outset that the content offered for...
by David W. Jardine, Patricia Clifford, Sharon Friesen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
In this text Jardine, Clifford, and Friesen set forth their concept of curriculum as abundance and illustrate its pedagogical applications through specific examples of classroom practices, the work of specific children, and specific dilemmas, images, and curricular practices that arise in concrete...
by Hongping Annie Nie
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Despite the implementation of numerous reform policies, moral education in China remains problematic. This study presents a student perspective on the dilemma of the moral education curriculum in a Chinese secondary school. Dr. Hongping Annie Nie finds that the school system does not provide a favorable...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Addressing studying as a distinct educational concept and phenomenon in its own right, the essays in this volume consider study and studying from a range of perspectives. Countering dominant educational discourses, which place a heavy emphasis on learning and instruction, the contributors explore...
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...