To Be Educated Is To Be Cultured

Author : Ron Ritchhart
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118974629

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Creating Cultures of Thinking by Ron Ritchhart Pdf

Discover why and how schools must become places where thinkingis valued, visible, and actively promoted As educators, parents, and citizens, we must settle for nothingless than environments that bring out the best in people, takelearning to the next level, allow for great discoveries, and propelboth the individual and the group forward into a lifetime oflearning. This is something all teachers want and all studentsdeserve. In Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We MustMaster to Truly Transform Our Schools, Ron Ritchhart, author ofMaking Thinking Visible, explains how creating a culture ofthinking is more important to learning than any particularcurriculum and he outlines how any school or teacher can accomplishthis by leveraging 8 cultural forces: expectations, language, time,modeling, opportunities, routines, interactions, andenvironment. With the techniques and rich classroom vignettes throughout thisbook, Ritchhart shows that creating a culture of thinking is notabout just adhering to a particular set of practices or a generalexpectation that people should be involved in thinking. A cultureof thinking produces the feelings, energy, and even joy that canpropel learning forward and motivate us to do what at times can behard and challenging mental work.

Author : Jared L. Taylor
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781423657590

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CulturED by Jared L. Taylor Pdf

A collection of essays detailing the necessary foci to build an effective classroom and school culture for students and teachers to succeed. CulturED: Pathways for Meaningful School Change discusses the primacy of effective school culture to effective teaching and learning. This book explores the shared experience of 6 authors that were teachers, department heads, and administrators as they build and maintained a school with their explicit decision to focus on culture first. Each author and essay provide focus on a critical topic which the group found to be essential to effectively running the school. Features contributions from Lyssa Bevan; Claire Wolters; Liz Wallace, M. Ed.; Nick Kiriazis, M.S. Ed.; Kevin Wasden, M. Ed.; and Jared L. Taylor, M. Ed.

Author : David S. Kidder,Noah D. Oppenheim
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781609616892

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The Intellectual Devotional by David S. Kidder,Noah D. Oppenheim Pdf

This daily digest of intellectual challenge and learning will arouse curiosity, refresh knowledge, expand horizons, and keep the mind sharp Millions of Americans keep bedside books of prayer and meditative reflection—collections of daily passages to stimulate spiritual thought and advancement. The Intellectual Devotional is a secular version of the same—a collection of 365 short lessons that will inspire and invigorate the reader every day of the year. Each daily digest of wisdom is drawn from one of seven fields of knowledge: history, literature, philosophy, mathematics and science, religion, fine arts, and music. Impress your friends by explaining Plato's Cave Allegory, pepper your cocktail party conversation with opera terms, and unlock the mystery of how batteries work. Daily readings range from important passages in literature to basic principles of physics, from pivotal events in history to images of famous paintings with accompanying analysis. The book's goal is to refresh knowledge we've forgotten, make new discoveries, and exercise modes of thinking that are ordinarily neglected once our school days are behind us. Offering an escape from the daily grind to contemplate higher things, The Intellectual Devotional is a great way to awaken in the morning or to revitalize one's mind before retiring in the evening.

Author : C. P. Snow,Charles Percy Snow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107606142

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The Two Cultures by C. P. Snow,Charles Percy Snow Pdf

The importance of science and technology and future of education and research are just some of the subjects discussed here.

Author : Alfie Kohn
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807032670

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What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? by Alfie Kohn Pdf

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 : Jerome Bruner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997-04-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674251069

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The Culture of Education by Jerome Bruner Pdf

What we don't know about learning could fill a book--and it might be a schoolbook. In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, the eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it often fails to do so. Applying the newly emerging "cultural psychology" to education, Bruner proposes that the mind reaches its full potential only through participation in the culture--not just its more formal arts and sciences, but its ways of perceiving, thinking, feeling, and carrying out discourse. By examining both educational practice and educational theory, Bruner explores new and rich ways of approaching many of the classical problems that perplex educators. Education, Bruner reminds us, cannot be reduced to mere information processing, sorting knowledge into categories. Its objective is to help learners construct meanings, not simply to manage information. Meaning making requires an understanding of the ways of one's culture--whether the subject in question is social studies, literature, or science. The Culture of Education makes a forceful case for the importance of narrative as an instrument of meaning making. An embodiment of culture, narrative permits us to understand the present, the past, and the humanly possible in a uniquely human way. Going well beyond his earlier acclaimed books on education, Bruner looks past the issue of achieving individual competence to the question of how education equips individuals to participate in the culture on which life and livelihood depend. Educators, psychologists, and students of mind and culture will find in this volume an unsettling criticism that challenges our current conventional practices--as well as a wise vision that charts a direction for the future.

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D03563181N

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External Research Paper: Cross-cultured Education, a Bibliography of Government-sponsered and Private Research on Foreign Students and Trainees in the U.S. and in Other Countries, 1946-1964, a Selective Bibliography by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : Ashley Montagu
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781789121698

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The Cultured Man by Ashley Montagu Pdf

“THIS BOOK’S purpose is to tell you what a cultivated person is, what the value of the cultured person is to himself, his fellows, and his society, and finally, the kind of things the cultured person knows, thinks, and feels. The point of the book is that it may succeed in giving you a fair idea of where you stand in relation to the continuum of culture, and help you understand in what further direction you need to proceed.”—Ashley Montagu, Ph. D. This provocative book, first published in 1958, is an inquiry into, and an answer to, three very important questions: 1) What is a cultured man? 2) What does “culture” mean in America? 3) What is YOUR “culture quotient”? Dr. Montagu analyzes and evaluations the first two questions above in a brilliant opening essay. He then provides 50 tests (1,500 questions with answers) which explore YOUR knowledge and attitudes and which enable you not only to determine where you stand as a truly cultured person but also to find out precisely in what directions you need to move to improve your “culture quotient.” From ballet to biology, from psychology to sex, this is an instructive test of your own intellectual status, a challenge and a guide to self-improvement. Dr. Montagu was a professor of anthropology at Rutgers University before retiring in order to devote all his time to writing. He was well-known for his TV and radio appearances, and became a renowned author.

Author : Filiz Meseci Giorgetti,Ali Arslan,Craig Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429680571

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Culture and Education by Filiz Meseci Giorgetti,Ali Arslan,Craig Campbell Pdf

This book explores the fascinating and complex interactions between the ways that culture and education operate within and across societies. In some cases, education is imagined as an integrated part of general cultural phenomena; in others, educational interventions become the means for transforming the cultural circumstances of different populations. The contributors to this volume show how certain educational practices produce new cultural and professional knowledge; discuss the impacts of initially foreign educational ideas and institutions on established cultural institutions in very different societies; and explore the impacts of modernity and modern educational ideas on more traditional gendered and religious practices and communities. The book also provided striking examples of when these impacts were not benign. Increasingly powerful twentieth-century governments attempted to use education and schools to produce new, reformed citizens suitable for their newly created colonial, national, socialist, and fascist states. The expectation was that cultural and social transformation might be engineered, in major part, through schooling. This book was originally published as a special issue of Paedagogica Historica.

Author : Charles William Eliot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Culture
ISBN : UOM:39015030014651

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Education for Efficiency, and The New Definition of the Cultivated Man by Charles William Eliot Pdf

Author : Brent Davis,Dennis Sumara,Rebecca Luce-Kapler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317444299

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Engaging Minds by Brent Davis,Dennis Sumara,Rebecca Luce-Kapler Pdf

Engaging Minds: Cultures of Education and Practices of Teaching explores the diverse beliefs and practices that define the current landscape of formal education. The 3rd edition of this introduction to interdisciplinary studies of teaching and learning to teach is restructured around four prominent historical moments in formal education: Standardized Education, Authentic Education, Democratic Citizenship Education, Systemic Sustainability Education. These moments serve as the foci of the four sections of the book, each with three chapters dealing respectively with history, epistemology, and pedagogy within the moment. This structure makes it possible to read the book in two ways – either "horizontally" through the four in-depth treatments of the moments or "vertically" through coherent threads of history, epistemology, and pedagogy. Pedagogical features include suggestions for delving deeper to get at subtleties that can’t be simply stated or appreciated through reading alone, several strategies to highlight and distinguish important vocabulary in the text, and more than 150 key theorists and researchers included among the search terms and in the Influences section rather than a formal reference list.

Author : David James,Gert Biesta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134090341

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Improving Learning Cultures in Further Education by David James,Gert Biesta Pdf

Illustrated with case studies, this practical guide develops a new way of understanding educational improvement – one which focuses on the formation and transformation of the practices through which students learn.

Author : Barry Chazan,Robert Chazan,Benjamin M. Jacobs
Publisher : Springer
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319515861

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Cultures and Contexts of Jewish Education by Barry Chazan,Robert Chazan,Benjamin M. Jacobs Pdf

This book examines the history of Jewish education from the Biblical period to the present. It traces how Jews have formally and informally transmitted their culture and worldview over the years, with particular attention to the shift from premodernity to modernity and to the unique opportunities and challenges of contemporary American Jewish education. Its authors combine historical background and insight with educational expertise to provide a robust portrait of the cultures and contexts of Jewish education and address possibilities for the future.

Author : Donna Schwenk
Publisher : Hay House
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781401942823

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Cultured Food for Life by Donna Schwenk Pdf

Examines "the healing properties of kefir, kombucha, cultured vegetables, sprouted flour, and sourdough ... Donna Schwenk is working to bring [the methods of fermentation] back to readers by showing that these now-unfamiliar processes are actually easy and fun"--

Author : W. Kenneth Richmond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429803697

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Culture and General Education by W. Kenneth Richmond Pdf

Originally published in 1963, this remarkable book discusses the results of the ‘tests of culture’ devised by the author, two of which, when published in The Times Educational Supplement, evoked such wide interest that he was almost overwhelmed with unsolicited test scores and correspondence. The late Kenneth Richmond was well aware that any attempt to ‘measure culture’ was open to ridicule. He makes it clear that he is concerned to measure it in its restricted sense of ‘academic or minority culture’ and he holds that there is a body of received opinion on the content of such culture, which in the contemporary world is represented by two areas, those of the scientists and of the literary intellectuals, and that it is possible to pose questions that will test a person’s acquaintance with each. So the tests are no mere quizzes; the results, from Universities, Colleges, the Services and Sixth Forms, are often surprising, sometimes disquieting, in the light they throw on standards of general education at the time and on the ‘great divide’ between the scientist and the arts man.