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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,...
Re-theorizing Literacy Practices
Complex Social and Cultural Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Moving beyond current theories on literacy practices, this edited collection sheds new light on the complexities inherent to the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which literacy practices are realized. Building on Brian V. Street’s scholarship, contributors discuss literacy as intrinsically...
by Doreen Grant
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Dissatisfied with the effects of schooling on children from low-income families, Doreen Grant left her post as head of a secondary school in Liverpool and turned to research for solutions to this perennial social problem. This is a popular account of her involvement with under-privileged Glaswegian...
Reimagining Liberal Education
Affiliation and Inquiry in Democratic Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
This challenging and provocative book reimagines the justification, substance, process, and study of education in open, pluralistic, liberal democratic societies.
Hanan Alexander argues that educators need to enable students to embark on a quest for intelligent spirituality, while paying heed...
My Teaching, My Philosophy
Kenneth Wain and the Lifelong Engagement with Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
My Teaching, My Philosophy brings together twenty of the most prominent thinkers on education, philosophy, art, and literature to converse with Kenneth Wain and the many facets of his work. It shows how Wain’s passionate engagement with various issues, most prominently philosophy and education,...
by David T. Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
David Hansen employs the idea of teaching as a vocation or calling to analyze and interpret case studies drawn from fieldwork. Based on a 3-year study of the everyday working lives of four teachers in a large urban setting—two work in a public high school, one in a Catholic high school for boys,...
Running Records
Authentic Instruction in Early Childhood Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The most effective way to understand what a child knows about the reading process is to take a running record. In Running Records, Mary Shea demonstrates how teachers can use this powerful tool to design lessons that decrease reading difficulties, build on strengths, and stimulate motivation, ensuring...
Handbook of Comparative Education Law
British Commonwealth Nations
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Each of the four volumes in this set, as well as each volume independently, provide comparative analyses for researches, practitioners, and students of the law and education
In examining law and education in various countries around the world. Designed to allow readers to learn from, rather than copy,...
by Rudolf Steiner
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 23, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 23, 2014
Rudolf Steiner ci consegna riflessioni di un’estrema attualità:
“La bellezza deve regnare sovrana e far da interprete della verità nell’età della scuola dell’obbligo e anche in seguito.”
“Se si vuol capire l’uomo, la prima cosa da fare è far sparire l’intellettualismo. L’uomo...