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Getting College Scholarships Tricks
This Definitive Guide To Education Will Bring You The Importance Of A College Education, Give Ideas On How To Get Athletic Scholarship, Soccer Scholarships, Cheerleading Scholarship, Apply For College Scholarships And So Much More!
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
How much is the cost for a college education?
Is there an available financing scheme?
Let’s face the reality. College education is expensive! A lot of parents do a double take when their children are preparing and looking forward to attending a community college or a state university....
by Fareed Zakaria
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria argues for a renewed commitment to the world’s most valuable educational tradition.
The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the...
The Story of White Hall Centre
Outdoor Education across the Decades
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
White Hall Centre for Open Country Pursuits, near Buxton in Derbyshire, was set up in 1950 by Jack Longland, Derbyshire’s director of education. The Story of White Hall Centre describes White Hall’s origins and its sixty-seven years in existence.
Written references to the setting-up of...
Education under siege
Why there is a better alternative
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
At a time when education is considered crucial to a country’s economic success, recent UK governments have insisted their reforms are the only way to make England’s system world class. Yet pupils are tested rather than educated, teachers bullied rather than trusted and parents cast as winners...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The Hidden History of Early Childhood Education provides an understandable and manageable exploration of the history of early childhood education in the United States. Covering historical, philosophical, and sociological underpinnings that reach from the 1800s to today, contributors explore groups...
by Richard Aldrich
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Education is a country's biggest business and the most important shared experience of those who live in it. A Century of Education provides an accessible, authoritative and fascinating overview of the role and nature of education in the twentieth century. Eminent historian of education, Professor...
Language, Ethnography, and Education
Bridging New Literacy Studies and Bourdieu
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This frontline volume contributes to the social study of education in general and literacy in particular by bringing together in a new way the traditions of language, ethnography, and education. Integrating New Literacy Studies and Bourdieusian sociology with ethnographic approaches to the study of...
by Rudolf Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
As early as 1884, while tutoring a boy with special needs, Steiner began a lifelong interest in applying spiritual knowledge to the practical aspects of life. Steiner originally published the essay at the core of this book in 1907. It represents his earliest ideas on education, in which he lays out the...
by John Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education is a book written in 1916 by John Dewey. His recurrent and intertwining themes of education, democracy and communication are effectively summed up in the following excerpt from the first chapter, "Education as a Necessity of Life". Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
A Perfect Mess
The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Read the news about America’s colleges and universities—rising student debt, affirmative action debates, and conflicts between faculty and administrators—and it’s clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labaree reminds us in this book, it’s always been...
ServiceLearning in Literacy Education
Possibilities for Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This edited collection will stand as the first volume that specifically describes servicelearning programs and courses designed as part of teacher education programs in the fields of literacy education, secondary English education, elementary language arts education, and related fields. The contributing...
Dialogue and Difference in a Teacher Education Program
A 16Year Sociocultural Study of a Professional Development School
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
This book is a longitudinal study of a 10year experimental teacher education program. Followup studies and writing continued for 6 years after the program closed. This case study describes a search for effective and socially just practices within a longterm reform initiative intended to prepare teachers...
Policy Discourses in Malaysian Education
A nation in the making
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Since independence in 1957, Malaysia has become a globally-recognised industrial trading partner. With a 60% Muslim population, it also enjoys the reputation of being a moderate and peaceful nation. However, with just a short time left to realising its Vision 2020 of developed nationhood, the pathway...
Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education
The Challenges of a Diversifying Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The latest volume in the Routledge International Studies in Higher Education Series, Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education: The Challenges of a Diversifying Workforce, reviews the implications of new forms of academic and professional identity, which have emerged largely as a result...