Education and the Cult of Efficiency
ISBN: 9780226091501 / Angielski / Miękka / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raymond Callahan's lively study exposes the alarming lengths to which school administrators went, particularly in the period from 1910 to 1930, in sacrificing educational goals to the demands of business procedures. He suggests that even today the question still asked is: "How can we operate our schools?" Society has not yet learned to ask: "How can we provide an excellent education for our children?"
Raymond Callahan's lively study exposes the alarming lengths to which school administrators went, particularly in the period from 1910 to 1930, in sac...
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161,60 zł |
The School and Society and the Child and the Curriculum
ISBN: 9780226143965 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edition brings Dewey's educational theory into sharp focus, framing his two classic works by frank assessments, past and present, of the practical applications of Dewey's ideas. In addition to a substantial introduction in which Philip W. Jackson explains why more of Dewey's ideas haven't been put into practice, this edition restores a "lost" chapter, dropped from the book by Dewey in 1915.
This edition brings Dewey's educational theory into sharp focus, framing his two classic works by frank assessments, past and present, of the practica...
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86,18 zł |
Confucian Tradition and Global Education
ISBN: 9780231141208 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawn from a series of lectures that Wm. Theodore de Bary delivered in honor of the Chinese philosopher Tang Junyi, Confucian Tradition and Global Education is a unique synthesis of essay and debate concerning the future of Chinese education and the potential political uses of Confucianism in the contemporary world. Rapid modernization and the rise of English as a global language increasingly threaten East Asia's cultural diversity and long-standing Confucian traditions. De Bary argues that keeping Confucianism alive in China is not only a matter of "Chinese identity," but also a...
Drawn from a series of lectures that Wm. Theodore de Bary delivered in honor of the Chinese philosopher Tang Junyi, Confucian Tradition and Global ...
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269,33 zł |
John Dewey and the Philosophy and Practice of Hope
ISBN: 9780252032004 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inspiring new techniques for engaging students with democratic ideals
"John Dewey and the Philosophy and Practice of Hope" combines philosophical theory with a study of its effects in an actual classroom. To understand how Dewey, one of the century's foremost philosophers of education, understood the concept of hope, Stephen Fishman begins with theoretical questions like: What is hope? What are its objects? How can hope foster a new understanding of democracy and social justice? The book's second half is a classroom study that mir-rors in practice what Fishman explores in theory, as... Inspiring new techniques for engaging students with democratic ideals
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188,53 zł |
Defining the Humanities: How Rediscovering a Tradition Can Improve Our Schools, Second Edition with a Curriculum for Today's Students
ISBN: 9780253212191 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Think of this as 'The Thinking Man's Bloom' or 'The Thinking Woman's Closing of the American Mind.' It takes up debates about education and reasons about them, where Bloom often only blasted away.... This is one of the more helpful recent statements of the case for the classics, accompanied by rather venturesome curricular suggestions." --Christian Century "His exciting readable book calls for a return to a study of the classics--and of the Renaissance poets and scholars, like Petrarch, who rediscovered the classics." --Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World ..". a splendid... "Think of this as 'The Thinking Man's Bloom' or 'The Thinking Woman's Closing of the American Mind.' It takes up debates about education and reason... |
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American Catholic Higher Education: Essential Documents, 1967-1990
ISBN: 9780268006358 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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102,29 zł |
With All Your Mind: Christian Philosophy of Education
ISBN: 9780268019679 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With All Your Mind makes a compelling case for the value of thinking deeply about education in America from a historically orthodox and broadly ecumenical Christian point of view. Few people dispute that education in America is in a state of crisis. But not many have posed workable solutions to this serious problem. Michael Peterson contends that thinking philosophically about education is our only hope for meaningful progress. In this refreshing book, he invites all who are concerned about education in America to "participate" in his study, which analyzes representative theories and...
With All Your Mind makes a compelling case for the value of thinking deeply about education in America from a historically orthodox and broadly...
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460,55 zł |
Teaching and Learning
ISBN: 9780268042097 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses the reader's attention on great teachers in the act of teaching and on their students in the act of learning. The book challenges us to question our assumptions about ourselves and others as everyday teachers and learners.
This book focuses the reader's attention on great teachers in the act of teaching and on their students in the act of learning. The book challenges us...
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573,12 zł |
Everyone a Teacher
ISBN: 9780268042103 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses the reader's attention on great teachers in the act of teaching and on their students in the act of learning. The book challenges us to question our assumptions about ourselves and others as everyday teachers and learners.
This book focuses the reader's attention on great teachers in the act of teaching and on their students in the act of learning. The book challenges us...
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112,53 zł |
Literacy in America: Historic Journey and Contemporary Solutions
ISBN: 9780275955243 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first comprehensive history of how the American people achieved varying degrees of literacy from early colonial times to the modern era. The authors demonstrate that literacy education is not synonymous with schooling. By focusing on people rather than statistics, including literacy among women and minority groups, they explore the literacy agents, methods, and materials used at different times and places throughout the history of the country. The authors define literacy as the degree of interaction with written text that enables individuals to be productive... This book is the first comprehensive history of how the American people achieved varying degrees of literacy from early colonial times to the moder... |
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580,26 zł |
Building Character and Culture
ISBN: 9780275964696 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If we are ever to solve the problems of society we must understand how humans function as both the creators and creatures of an evolving culture. Only by viewing socialization as the ongoing product of social interaction in the context of a hierarchy of dynamic, self-organizing, feedback systems will we begin to build the scientifically reliable knowledge that can provide us with the conceptual tools necessary to ensure our survival and the health of our ecology. Pat Duffy Hutcheon stresses the importance of culture in human development, along with our collective responsibility for the... If we are ever to solve the problems of society we must understand how humans function as both the creators and creatures of an evolving culture. O... |
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278,18 zł |
God in the Classroom: Religion and America's Public Schools
ISBN: 9780275991418 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To help readers gain a better understanding of conflicts over the proper role of religion in American public schools, this book focuses on the seven major types of conflicts that have become particularly confrontational. Thomas does not take sides; rather, he lays out the arguments, their historical and cultural contexts, and the groups that debate them and their goals. Anyone wishing to gain a better understanding of the controversies surrounding religion in American schools will find here not just a review of the issues, but a deeper consideration of the causes, consequences, and future... To help readers gain a better understanding of conflicts over the proper role of religion in American public schools, this book focuses on the seve... |
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399,01 zł |
Visions of Schooling: Conscience, Community, and Common Education
ISBN: 9780300093506 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At no time in the past century have there been fiercer battles over our public schools than there are now. Parents and educational reformers are challenging not only the mission, content, and structure of mass compulsory schooling but also its underlying premise--that the values promoted through public education are neutral and therefore acceptable to any reasonable person. In this important book, Rosemary Salomone sets aside the ideological and inflammatory rhetoric that surrounds today's debates over educational values and family choice. She offers instead a fair-minded examination of...
At no time in the past century have there been fiercer battles over our public schools than there are now. Parents and educational reformers are chall...
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314,42 zł |
Making Good Citizens: Education and Civil Society
ISBN: 9780300099171 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Americans have reason to be concerned about the condition of American democracy at the start of the twenty-first century. Surveys show that civic participation has declined, cynicism about government has increased, and young people have a weak grasp of the principles that underlie our constitutional system. Crucial questions must be answered: How serious is the situation? What role do schools play in shaping civic behavior? Are current education reform initiatives-such as multiculturalism and school choice-counterproductive? How can schools contribute toward reversing the trend? This volume...
Americans have reason to be concerned about the condition of American democracy at the start of the twenty-first century. Surveys show that civic part...
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296,30 zł |
Same, Different, Equal: Rethinking Single-Sex Schooling
ISBN: 9780300108316 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this timely book, Rosemary Salomone offers a reasoned educational and legal argument supporting single-sex education as an alternative to coeducation, particularly in the case of disadvantaged minority students. "A carefully organized, often lively . . . compendium of everything that matters in the debate: how boys and girls do in classes and on tests, their differing learning styles, and the legal tussles."-Timothy A. Hacsi, New York Times "Smart, objective, evenhanded. Must reading in this important debate."-Susan Estrich, University of Southern California Law School "Everyone concerned...
In this timely book, Rosemary Salomone offers a reasoned educational and legal argument supporting single-sex education as an alternative to coeducati...
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235,88 zł |
Dangerous Adolescents, Model Adolescents: Shaping the Role and Promise of Education
ISBN: 9780306467677 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teachers make a difference. As someone who grew up in one of the po- est and rural areas of a poor state and ended up attending elite graduate and professional schools, I have much to credit my public school teachers. My teachers sure struggled much to teach an amazingly wide variety of students from different backgrounds, abilities, and hopes. Given that re- ity, which undoubtedly repeats itself across the United States and globe, one would think that I should be quite hesitant to criticize a system that produces countless grateful students and productive citizens. I agree. The pages that...
Teachers make a difference. As someone who grew up in one of the po- est and rural areas of a poor state and ended up attending elite graduate and pro...
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390,87 zł |
Drugs in Adolescent Worlds: Burnouts to Straights
ISBN: 9780312042073 / Angielski / Miękka / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drug use by adolescents is usually viewed as the result of personal vulnerability to peer pressures or drug pushers. This book provides a new perspective which is sociological rather than epidemiological, understanding patterns of drug-taking in the context of ordinary social interaction. In this social worlds analysis, adolescents' own concerns with boredom, depression, social identity, friendship, access to drugs, self-control and folk pharmacology replace the professionals' focus on deviant behaviour. Both drug-taking and drug-abstaining are analysed as decisions made within social worlds...
Drug use by adolescents is usually viewed as the result of personal vulnerability to peer pressures or drug pushers. This book provides a new perspect...
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195,42 zł |
Theories of General Education: A Critical Approach
ISBN: 9780312047436 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book articulates the philosophical presuppositions of the major approaches to general education in the U.S. and to suggest a ground from which to assess them critically.
This book articulates the philosophical presuppositions of the major approaches to general education in the U.S. and to suggest a ground from which to...
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390,87 zł |
Making Spaces: Citizenship and Difference in Schools
ISBN: 9780312226190 / Angielski / Twarda / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book uses an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach to study everyday life in secondary schools in London and Helsinki. Employing a metaphor of dance, it explores the relationship between the official school (correct steps), the informal school (improvised steps) and the physical school (the ballroom). Practices and processes of differentiation, marginalization and cooperation are explored in relation to gender and its intersections with social class and ethnicity.
This book uses an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach to study everyday life in secondary schools in London and Helsinki. Employing a metaphor of da...
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390,87 zł |
Systematic Sociology: An Introduction to the Study of Society
ISBN: 9780313243783 / Angielski / Twarda / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two of the courses of lectures given in London by Karl Manheim form the basis of this book. The main parts of the book consist of discussions of man and his psychic endowment, elementary social processes, the nature of social integration, and an examination of some of the factors which make for social stability and for social change.
Two of the courses of lectures given in London by Karl Manheim form the basis of this book. The main parts of the book consist of discussions of ma... |
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338,59 zł |