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Schooling America
How the Public Schools Meet the Nation's Changing Needs
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Patricia Graham is one of America's most esteemed historians of education, formerly Dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Director of the National Institute of Education. In this informative volume, Graham offers a vibrant history of American education in the last century. Drawing on...
by Laurel Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Laurel Tanner examines closely the practices and policies of Dewey’s Laboratory School from their inception to the current day. Dewey’s Laboratory School: Lessons for Today provides a wealth of practical guidance on how schools today can introduce Deweyian reforms the way they were originally—and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Democratic political systems and the democratic way of life is aspired by most people around the world. Democracy is considered to be morally superior to other forms of political systems as it aspires to secure civil liberties, human rights, social justice and equality before the law for everyone regardless...
Urban High Schools
Foundations and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This multidisciplinary overview introduces readers to the historical, sociological, anthropological, and political foundations of urban public secondary schooling and to possibilities for reform. Focused on critical and problematic elements, the text provides a comprehensive description and analyses...
A New Paradigm for Global School Systems
Education for a Long and Happy Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007
This volume—a major new contribution to Joel Spring’s reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education—offers a new paradigm for global school systems. Education for global economic competition is the prevailing goal of most national school systems. Spring argues that recent international studies by econom
The New Idea of a University
The Groundbreaking Mission of Happy Science University
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
In this book, Ryuho Okawa, the author and founder of Happy Science University, shares his vision for Happy Science University, a new type of university that has no equivalent anywhere in the world. This groundbreaking philosophy will provide unique values to the existing academic world and greatly advance...
Learning the Spirit of the Founder of Happy Science University Part I (Overview)
What is Academic Discipline Based on a Religious Spirit?
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Happy Science University (HSU) is a religious institution for higher education, founded with an aim to create a new civilization. The founder, Master Ryuho Okawa, passionately talks about the founding spirit of HSU and the challenge of religious Truth. He aspires to reorganize academic discipline based...
Islamic Education and Indoctrination
The Case in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Islamic schools, especially madrasahs, have been viewed as sites of indoctrination for Muslim students and militants. Some educators and parents in the United States have also regarded introductory courses on Islam in some public schools as indoctrinatory. But what do we mean by "indoctrination"?...
Sex, Death, and the Education of Children
Our Passion for Ignorance in the Age of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Silin shows us how we culture ignorance in children and in each other by refusing to hear and respond to what they and we already know.”
—From the Foreword by Madeleine Grumet
“This book is not for the meek, because it talks straight from the heart—and from an educated and serious...
Sex Ed for Caring Schools
Creating an Ethics-Based Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While arguments for and against teaching abstinence, the use of contraceptives, and sexual identity are becoming more and more polarized, most people agree that students must learn to navigate an increasingly sexual world. Sex Ed for Caring Schools presents a curriculum that goes beyond the typical...
Handbook of Comparative Education Law
Selected Asian Nations
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Each of the four volumes in this set, as well as each volume independently, provide comparative analyses for researches, practitioners, and students of the law and education
In examining law and education in various countries around the world. Designed to allow readers to learn from, rather than copy,...
Does God Make a Difference?
Taking Religion Seriously in Our Schools and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
In this provocative book Warren A. Nord argues that public schools and universities leave the vast majority of students religiously illiterate. Such education is not religiously neutral, a matter of constitutional importance; indeed, it borders on secular indoctrination when measured against the requirements...
Curriculum Studies as an International Conversation
Educational Traditions and Cosmopolitanism in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Examining Curriculum Studies from an international perspective, this book focuses on the relations between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin American educational traditions. Informed by William F. Pinar’s conceptualization of curriculum as currere, Johnson-Mardones reconsiders curriculum as an international...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling brings critical ethnographic perspectives to bear on language, literacy, and power in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts, showing how literacy and schooling are negotiated by children and adults and how schooling becomes a key site of struggle...