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On the Pedagogy of Suffering
Hermeneutic and Buddhist Meditations
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This text articulates how and why suffering can be pedagogical in character and how it is often key to authentic and meaningful acts of teaching and learning. This is an ancient idea from the Greek tragedies of Aeschylus (c. 525 BCE) – pathei mathos or «learning through suffering». In our understandable...
Exploring Values Through Literature, Multimedia, and Literacy Events
Making Connections
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Exploring Values Through Multimedia, Literature and Literacy Events was written by teachers and educational researchers for classrooms and schools interested in developing learning communities that develop critical and compassionate future citizens. Through the use of specific multimedia, literature...
by Manuel Pérez Rocha
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Según datos de la UNESCO, la cuarta parte de la población mundial está condenada a nunca recibir educación, y de los que logran inscribirse, una cuarta parte la abandonan antes de terminar la secundaria. Latinoamérica no es ajena a este escenario.
Manuel Pérez Rocha revela que el problema...
Misguided Notions
The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Publicly Funded Education in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Americas public schools are in decline and in need of urgent reform. Once the envy of the entire world, the American public school system now struggles to keep pace with other industrialized nations and is falling further behind with each passing decade. This disturbing trend raises two important...
The Reconceptualization of Curriculum Studies
A Festschrift in Honor of William F. Pinar
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
In this volume scholars from around the world consider the influential work of William F. Pinar from a variety of "conversations" his ideas have generated. The major focus is on the What, Why, and How of the word "reconceptualization," which involves engaging critically and ethically...
Empower Thyself!
Life-Changing Biblical and Academic Principles They Don’T Teach You in Freshman Seminar
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
You just received your college acceptance letter and you are thrilled as you celebrate with family and friends. Youre ready to undergo a whirlwind of orientations, explore the beautiful campus and ride that matriculation wave toward your degree. When you started you were pumped! Bring it on you said....
Provoking Curriculum Studies
Strong Poetry and Arts of the Possible in Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Provoking Curriculum Studies pushes forward a strong reading of the theoretical and methodological innovations taking place within curriculum studies research. Addressing an important gap in contemporary curriculum studies—conceptualizing scholars as poets and the potential of the poetic in education—it...
by Andreas Dieter Boldt
Language: German
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Der Historiker Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886) spielt für die Geschichtswissenschaft eine kaum zu unterschätzende Rolle. Sein Werk und vor allem seine Überlegungen zur Objektivität des Historikers und zur kritischen Quellenanalyse haben bis heute einen bleibenden Einfluss auf die Forschung. Während...
Unlocking the Moviemaking Mind
Tales of Voice, Vision, and Video from K-12 Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Have you ever had an idea for a book, a movie, or a TV show? Chances are that you’ve had many. Today’s students, who are coming of age in a world that is increasingly mediated by smartphones, pads, pods, apps, and the Internet, are even more likely to think of their lives and experiences in terms...
Por la Humanidad Futura
Antología política de Gabriela Mistral
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Desde los diferentes países donde residió a lo largo de su vida y en los que se compenetró con la cultura, las personas y los niños, Gabriela Mistral escribió cientos de artículos que abordan temas de contingencia política, social o del ámbito de la pedagogía.
Esta selección realizada...
Becoming a School Leader
Applications, Interviews, Examinations and Portfolios
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
There are many master teachers who have excellent organizational and interpersonal relation skills who think about becoming assistant principals and principals. Becoming a School Leader is designed primarily for these master teachers as they contemplate the next step in their professional careers....
Faculty Work and the Public Good
Philanthropy Engagement and Academic Professionalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
At a time when faculty roles are under great scrutiny and faculty work itself has an uncertain future, this book offers a new approach to examining academic professionalism. This collection of essays applies a philanthropic lens to contemporary debates and considers academic work completed out of...
Quando crescere è faticoso
Riconoscere i disturbi e prevenire le difficoltà di apprendimento nell’infanzia
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 27, 2014
I bambini di oggi, fin da piccolissimi, vengono generalmente molto sollecitati e vivono in contesti ricchi di stimoli ed opportunità. Tuttavia stanno aumentando i casi di disturbi dell’apprendimento e crescono le segnalazioni per invii a specialisti del linguaggio, dell’attenzione, della concentrazione.
Sembra...
Lumpen Italia
Il trionfo del sottoproletariato cognitivo
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Mentre l’Italia agonizza, figure circensi e raggruppamenti carnascialeschi si avvicendano in questi anni sulla scena nazionale: dalla lumpendestra al guru del web, dal cantore dei formaggi di fossa al signore delle slide. La ragione di questa ormai lunghissima fase italiana è molto semplice, sebbene...