Non Formal Education category: 341 books
Rethinking Outdoor, Experiential and Informal Education
Beyond the Confines
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
This book seeks to bring together the two disciplines of informal and outdoor education, and challenges readers to think differently about outdoor and adventure education. It develops core ideas and thinking about informal education within outdoor settings, and explores how its principles and practice...
by Maria Montessori
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
An Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. Her educational method is in use today in some public and private schools throughout the world. Contents Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook (1914) The Montessori Method...
by Rudolf Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Following a lecture of November 27, 1919 requested by the Basel Department of Education, sixty members of the audience invited Rudolf Steiner to return and deliver a complete lecture course on his approach to education. These lectures are the result. Rudolf Steiner begins by outlining the gradual development...
by Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
What's Wrong with School?
Many experts over the years say everything!
This book is my personal research into schools. I'm not an academic nor am I an expert on education. I taught preschool and kindergarten, I co-founded a Waldorf School, I homeschooled my children and then unschooled...
Putting the Local in Global Education
Models for Transformative Learning Through Domestic Off-Campus Programs
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
This book presents both the rationale for and examples of “study away”, an inclusive concept that embraces study abroad while advocating for a wide variety of domestic study programs, including community-based education programs that employ academic service-learning and internships.With the growing...
Beyond Learning by Doing
Theoretical Currents in Experiential Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
What is experiential education? What are its theoretical roots? Where does this approach come from? Offering a fresh and distinctive take, this book is about going beyond "learning by doing" through an exploration of its underlying theoretical currents.
As an increasingly popular pedagogical...
MOOC U
Who Is Getting the Most Out of Online Education and Why
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Contributing editor to The Chronicle of Higher Education and author of College (Un)Bound, Jeffrey J. Selingo follows in real time the stories of all the stake-holders in University of Virginia business professor Ed Hess's popular Grow to Greatness MOOC to distill for MOOC students (seven million and...
Afterschool Education
Approaches to an Emerging Field
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
The authors survey the current afterschool landscape and bring to light important issues and practices within the field, explore the challenges and opportunities facing afterschool education programs, and point to future directions for these burgeoning educational ventures.
Afterschool education...
Shadow Education
Private Supplementary Tutoring and Its Implications for Policy Makers in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In all parts of Asia, households devote considerable expenditures to private supplementary tutoring. This tutoring may contribute to students' achievement, but it also maintains and exacerbates social inequalities, diverts resources from other uses, and can contribute to inefficiencies in education...
Technologies for Inclusive Education
Beyond Traditional Integration Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
By providing students with the opportunities to receive a high quality education regardless of their social or cultural background, inclusive education is a new area that goes beyond traditional integration approaches. These approaches hope to provide the educative system with the ability to adapt to...
by Anil Jha
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
For the past few years, there has been much debate over the adoption, implementation, and maintenance of comprehensive health and sexuality education programs in public schools. Advocates of school based comprehensive health education programs often use a public health approach to substantiate their...
by Butet Manurung
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
A People in Crisis . . . A Young Womans Adventure . . . A School for Life
The Orang Rimba (People of the Forest) are nomadic tribes living in the rainforests of Sumatra, Indonesia as hunter-gatherers. Today, the outside world has arrived at their doorstep. From illegal loggers chain-sawing...
Learning Activism
The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
What do activists know? Learning Activism is designed to encourage a deeper engagement with the intellectual life of activists who organize for social, political, and ecological justice. Combining experiential knowledge from his own activism and a variety of social movements, Choudry suggests that...
by Jay Derrick, Ursula Howard, John Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Remaking Adult Learning provides an exciting and innovative addition to the literature on adult learning. Charting challenges and successes in the sector, it illustrates how taking part in well thought-out programmes can have a positive and sometimes life-saving impact on people’s lives. While grounded...