Age: 1758 books
ReEnvisioning Higher Education
Embodied Pathways to Wisdom and Social Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This book will expand the horizon of higher education, helping students, faculty and administrators to return to their roots and be in touch with their whole being. This book stresses that learning is much more than just accumulating knowledge and skills. Learning includes knowing ourselves—mind,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Transformative ecoeducation is environmental education that is literally needed to transform and save our planet, especially during the global ecological crises of our present century. Such education demands inner transformation of many deeply rooted ideas, such as the following: the Earth exists...
Hearts and Minds Without Fear
Unmasking the Sacred in Teacher Preparation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Hearts and Minds Without Fear: Unmasking the Sacred in Teacher Preparation is the first book of its kind that focuses on the critical urgency of integrating creativity, mindfulness, and compassion in which social and ecological justice are forefronted in teacher preparation. This is especially significant...
Point of Departure
Returning to Our More Authentic Worldview for Education and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Point of Departure offers a practical metacognitive and transformational learning strategy for human surviving and thriving. Using five foundational and interactive Indigenous worldview beliefs that contrast sharply with our dominant worldview ones, everyone can reclaim the original instructions for...
Quarterly Review of Distance Education Journal Issue
Volume 16 #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The Quarterly Review of Distance Education is a rigorously refereed journal publishing articles, research briefs, reviews, and editorials dealing with the theories, research, and practices of distance education. The Quarterly Review publishes articles that utilize various methodologies that permit...
Improving Results for Children and Families
Linking Collaborative Services with School Reform Efforts
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
(published in cooperation with the Laboratory for Student Success)
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Thirtysix of the best thinkers on family and community engagement were assembled to produce this Handbook, and they come to the task with varied backgrounds and lines of endeavor. Each could write volumes on the topics they address in the Handbook, and quite a few have. The authors tell us what they...
Problematizing ServiceLearning
Critical Reflections for Development and Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Interest in and research on civic engagement and servicelearning have increased exponentially. In this rapid growth, efforts have been made to institutionalize pedagogies of engagement across both K12 and higher education. As a result, increased positive attention has been complemented equally by...
Contemporary Social Studies
An Essential Reader
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The field of social studies is unique and complex. It is challenged by the differing perspectives related to the definition, goals, content, and purpose of social studies. Contemporary Social Studies: An Essential Reader discusses the contemporary issues surrounding social studies education today....
The Skinny on Teaching
What You Don’t Learn in Graduate School
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This book is a straightforward and entertaining primer on college teaching. It discusses the nittygritty aspects of teaching while providing readers with a synoptic but concise explanation of the principles of the art. It also offers a viable alternative to the books on teaching currently available or...
Moral Education in America's Schools
The Continuing Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
This book is not a comprehensive history of moral education in American schools. Rather, it is an episodic history that deals with selected periods, movements, and individuals throughout the course of American education history from the time of colonial Massachusetts in the 17th century up to present...
Deep Listening
Hidden Meanings in Everyday Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
What do we really mean when we make embarrassing mistakes in conversation? Is there such a thing as inadvertent insult or a slip of the tongue? Exploring outside influences and the connections to our dream world, Dr. Robert Haskell guides us through the fascinating terrain of the unconscious, showing...
Women of Color in STEM
Navigating the Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Women of Color in STEM: Navigating the Workforce is an opportunity for making public the life stories of women of color who have persevered in STEM workplace settings. The authors used various critical theories to situate and make visible the lives of women of color in such disciplines and workplace...
Reel Character Education
A Cinematic Approach to Character Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Values, attitudes, and beliefs have been depicted in movies since the beginning of the film industry. Educators will find this book to be a valuable resource for helping explore character education with film. This book includes an overview of the history of character education, a discussion of how to...