Responding to the conservative agenda of high-stakes testing, charter schools, and vouchers, "Pockets of Hope" offers an alternative vision of education reform. It provides an intimate portrayal of day-to-day teaching and learning in six educational projects that span both classroom and community-based settings, thereby giving readers a genuine understanding of the possibilities inherent in democratic education.
The six projects examined herein demonstrate the ways in which education can be an empowering experience for students, providing them with the academic, social, and political...
Responding to the conservative agenda of high-stakes testing, charter schools, and vouchers, "Pockets of Hope" offers an alternative vision of educ...
Responding to the conservative agenda of high-stakes testing, charter schools, and vouchers, "Pockets of Hope" offers an alternative vision of education reform. It provides an intimate portrayal of day-to-day teaching and learning in six educational projects that span both classroom and community-based settings, thereby giving readers a genuine understanding of the possibilities inherent in democratic education.
The six projects examined herein demonstrate the ways in which education can be an empowering experience for students, providing them with the academic, social, and political...
Responding to the conservative agenda of high-stakes testing, charter schools, and vouchers, "Pockets of Hope" offers an alternative vision of educ...
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. When Man's Search for Meaning was first published in 1959, it was hailed by Carl Rogers as "one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years." Now,...
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our...
