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Author : Virginia Voeks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : MINN:31951000535390W
Author : Alfie Kohn
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807032670
Few writers ask us to question our fundamental assumptions about education as provocatively as Alfie Kohn. Time magazine has called him'perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores.' And the Washington Post says he is 'the most energetic and charismatic figure standing in the way of a major federal effort to make standardized curriculums and tests a fact of life in every U.S. school.' In this new collection of essays, Kohn takes on some of the most important and controversial topics in education of the last few years. His central focus is on the real goals of education-a topic, he argues, that we systematically ignore while lavishing attention on misguided models of learning and counterproductive techniques of motivation. The shift to talking about goals yields radical conclusions and wonderfully pungent essays that only Alfie Kohn could have written. From the title essay's challenge to conventional, conservative definitions of a good education to essays on standards and testing and grades that tally the severe educational costs of overemphasizing a narrow conception of achievement, Kohn boldly builds on his earlier work and writes for a wide audience. Kohn's new book will be greeted with enthusiasm by his many readers and by any teacher or parent looking for a refreshing perspective on today's debates about schools.
Author : David Rosenberg
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781582437286
A magisterial project: a dual biography of the preeminent figures of Judeo–Christian civilization overturning conventional views of Moses and Jesus as humble men of faith. By reanimating the biographies of Moses and Jesus in their historical context, Rosenberg reads their narrative as a cultural—rather than religious—endeavor. He charges that Moses and Jesus were "educated" men, steeped in the literature and scholarship of their day. There were no old or new testaments for them, only a long history of writing and writers. When scholars and clergy quote Moses and Jesus, they routinely neglect to inform us that Jesus is quoting the Hebrew Bible, often in the manner that Moses quoted Egyptian medical texts. The remarkable ability of both men to recall and transform a wide range of sources is overlooked. Where did they get these profound educations? Part biography, part critical analysis, An Educated Man challenges us to envision what defines "an educated man or woman" today—and how understanding religious history is crucial to it. Rosenberg offers a sympathetic approach to why we need Judeo–Christianity—and ultimately convinces us that the life of Jesus is unthinkable without the model of Moses before him.
Author : Tara Westover
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443452502
For readers of The Glass Castle and Wild, a stunning new memoir about family, loss and the struggle for a better future #1 International Bestseller Tara Westover was seventeen when she first set foot in a classroom. Instead of traditional lessons, she grew up learning how to stew herbs into medicine, scavenging in the family scrap yard and helping her family prepare for the apocalypse. She had no birth certificate and no medical records and had never been enrolled in school. Westover’s mother proved a marvel at concocting folk remedies for many ailments. As Tara developed her own coping mechanisms, little by little, she started to realize that what her family was offering didn’t have to be her only education. Her first day of university was her first day in school—ever—and she would eventually win an esteemed fellowship from Cambridge and graduate with a PhD in intellectual history and political thought.
Author : J. Casey Hurley
Publisher : R & L Education
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 1607092743
This book offers an alternative American schooling model--one that builds on the positive aspects of our current model and provides hope for public school improvement. It gives an outline of how this can be done by challenging the most fundamental aspects of American public schools and educating audiences in the six virtues of understanding, imagination, strength, courage, humility and generosity.
Author : Bradley A. Levinson,Douglas E. Foley,Dorothy C. Holland
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Critical pedagogy
ISBN : 0791428591
Examines the ways in which cultural practices and knowledges are produced in and out of schools around the world.
Author : D. G. Mulcahy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780742577824
Liberal education has long been a fascination for scholars in a variety of disciplines and is closely associated with the idea of the educated person. Seen at one time as a matter for colleges and universities, over the years it has become central to the debate surrounding general education in high school and even the earlier grades. Yet so many and varied are the uses of the term 'liberal education' that the question arises of whether and how the idea is any longer a useful or helpful construct. In what way might it speak helpfully to educational challenges we face today? In what ways does it still speak helpfully to educational challenges we face today? In what ways might it be a guide as we search for a better way forward? These are the central questions that are addressed in this book. In doing so, the positions of three theorists—John Henry Newman, Mortimer J. Adler, and Jane Roland Martin—who have written about liberal education in a compelling way and from different perspectives are selected for close analysis. The analysis is built upon to fashion a new ideal of the educated person and a new theory of liberal education.
Author : Elizabeth Steltenpohl,Jane Shipton,Sharon Villines
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : College student orientation
ISBN : 0534599583
ORIENTATION TO COLLEGE: A READER ON BECOMING AN EDUCATED PERSON offers a rich collection of articles designed to encourage students to reflect on the meaning of a college education, and to explore the opportunities for personal and professional development offered in college. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach-with readings written by experts in a number of different academic fields, government and industry-this text introduces students to the various dimensions of college, the learning process, and the skills they need to succeed in both college and the workplace.
Author : William John Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Education, Elementary
ISBN : UCR:31210024864413
Author : R.S. Peters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135170462
A series of public lectures given at the Institute of Education, University of London provides the nucleus around which this collection, originally published in 1967, is gathered. This collection provides comprehensive coverage of a complex theme which will be of interest to those involved in the fields of philosophy and education alike. Topics covered include:the logical and psychological aspects of learning, the concept of play, rule and routines, teaching and training, philosophical models of teaching.
Author : Lowell Handy
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827208103
A fact-filled resource takes you on a whirlwind tour of various versions of the Bible with side trips to the Talmud, the Torah, and the Qur'an.
Author : Seymour A Papert
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781541675100
In this revolutionary book, a renowned computer scientist explains the importance of teaching children the basics of computing and how it can prepare them to succeed in the ever-evolving tech world. Computers have completely changed the way we teach children. We have Mindstorms to thank for that. In this book, pioneering computer scientist Seymour Papert uses the invention of LOGO, the first child-friendly programming language, to make the case for the value of teaching children with computers. Papert argues that children are more than capable of mastering computers, and that teaching computational processes like de-bugging in the classroom can change the way we learn everything else. He also shows that schools saturated with technology can actually improve socialization and interaction among students and between students and teachers. Technology changes every day, but the basic ways that computers can help us learn remain. For thousands of teachers and parents who have sought creative ways to help children learn with computers, Mindstorms is their bible.
Author : Bradley A. Levinson,Douglas E. Foley,Dorothy C. Holland
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996-03-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781438410654
Eleven historical-ethnographic case studies examine the social and cultural projects of modern schools, and the contestations, dramatic and not, that emerge in and around and against them. These case studies, ranging from Taiwan to South Texas, build upon an original joining of anthropology, critical education theory, and cultural studies. The studies advance the concept of cultural production as a way of understanding the dynamics of power and identity formation underlying different forms of "education." Using the concept of the "educated person" as a culture-specific construct, the authors examine conflicts and points of convergence between cultural practices and knowledges that are produced in and out of schools.
Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780553899085
From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-town America, here is Louis L'Amour's memoir of his lifelong love affair with learning—from books, from yondering, and from some remarkable men and women—that shaped him as a storyteller and as a man. Like classic L'Amour fiction, Education of a Wandering Man mixes authentic frontier drama--such as the author's desperate efforts to survive a sudden two-day trek across the blazing Mojave desert--with true-life characters like Shanghai waterfront toughs, desert prospectors, and cowboys whom Louis L'Amour met while traveling the globe. At last, in his own words, this is a story of a one-of-a-kind life lived to the fullest . . . a life that inspired the books that will forever enable us to relive our glorious frontier heritage.
Author : Kieran Egan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226190402
The Educated Mind offers a bold and revitalizing new vision for today's uncertain educational system. Kieran Egan reconceives education, taking into account how we learn. He proposes the use of particular "intellectual tools"—such as language or literacy—that shape how we make sense of the world. These mediating tools generate successive kinds of understanding: somatic, mythic, romantic, philosophical, and ironic. Egan's account concludes with practical proposals for how teaching and curriculum can be changed to reflect the way children learn. "A carefully argued and readable book. . . . Egan proposes a radical change of approach for the whole process of education. . . . There is much in this book to interest and excite those who discuss, research or deliver education."—Ann Fullick, New Scientist "A compelling vision for today's uncertain educational system."—Library Journal "Almost anyone involved at any level or in any part of the education system will find this a fascinating book to read."—Dr. Richard Fox, British Journal of Educational Psychology "A fascinating and provocative study of cultural and linguistic history, and of how various kinds of understanding that can be distinguished in that history are recapitulated in the developing minds of children."—Jonty Driver, New York Times Book Review
