Non Formal Education category: 341 books
Learning Gardens and Sustainability Education
Bringing Life to Schools and Schools to Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Offering a fresh approach to bringing life to schools and schools to life, this book goes beyond touting the benefits of learning gardens to survey them as a whole-systems design solution with potential to address myriad interrelated social, ecological, and educational issues. The theoretical and...
by Gregory A. Smith, David Sobel
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Place- and community-based education – an approach to teaching and learning that starts with the local – addresses two critical gaps in the experience of many children now growing up in the United States: contact with the natural world and contact with community. It offers a way to extend young...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
The growing interest in transnational cooperation in education across borders has different implications for developed and developing countries. It is true that globalization affects all societies, but not at the same speed and magnitude. Supporting Multiculturalism in Open and Distance Learning Spaces...
Learning, Teaching, and Community
Contributions of Situated and Participatory Approaches to Educational Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
This volume brings together established and new scholarly voices to explore how participatory and situated approaches to learning can contribute to educational innovation. The contributors' critical examinations of educational programming and engagements provide insights into how educators, youth,...
Reforming Open and Distance Education
Critical Reflections from Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This volume contains a collection of critical reflections by teachers and administrators in open and distance education. They highlight educational problems and issues of a more general nature caused by the increased use of distance education within conventional higher education institutions.
Il tunnel e il kayak. Teoria e metodo della peer & media education
Teoria e metodo della peer & media education
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Un testo per gli operatori delle ASL, degli Enti locali, della Scuola e del Terzo Settore che intendono ampliare le proprie competenze nell’ambito della prevenzione primaria dei comportamenti a rischio nelle età giovanili. La Peer&Media Education (PME) è una forma innovativa di presenza educativa...
by Goral Mary
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
We have the power to transform our public schoolsnot through government mandates or the newest teacher-proof text series, and not through what many educators call best practices. Our schools can be transformed by applying Waldorf-inspired practices into the public-school setting. This little-known, but...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Service-learning is a powerful method of teaching and learning that has been used effectively for more than two decades. This volume contributes further to the Advances in Service-Learning Research series that focuses upon service-learning in teacher education. Research and theory indicate that knowledge...
Therapeutic Education
Working alongside troubled and troublesome children
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
The role of therapy in schools is a topic that has been significantly under-researched and often overlooked. Considering the number of students in full-time education with serious emotional and behavioural difficulties, the skills and tricks used by therapists can be usefully passed on to teachers...
Dewey and Education in the 21st Century
Fighting Back
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
This book makes a strong case for the abiding relevance of Dewey’s notion of learning through experience, with a community of others and what this implies for democratic education in the 21st century. Its first section addresses the experience of today’s generation of so-called ‘digital natives’...
Life and Learning of Korean Artists and Craftsmen
Rhizoactivity
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
This book brings out the need for lifelong learning theory and explores how it is possible from a postmodern perspective. The book uses life history that has gained its popularity in social science research to overcome the dichotomy between individual and society or between agency and structure. Life...
Learning with Lenin
Selected Works on Education and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Learning with Lenin brings together, for the first time, Lenin’s classic texts and his speeches and writings on education. To facilitate educators and activists’ engagement with these works, a study and discussion guide accompanies each text. Learning with Lenin contributes to the rematerialization...
The World Is Our Classroom
How One Family Used Nature and Travel to Shape an Extraordinary Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Cindy's story begins in the Rocky Mountain wilderness on a unique and extraordinary journey: two parents leading their young children 3,100 miles on the backs of llamas. This Canada-Mexico trek illustrated to Cindy and her husband what experiential education can do. Inspired by the experience, they...
Come rendere comprensibile un testo
Guida per educatori ed insegnanti alle prese con persone con bisogni speciali
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 22, 2017
“Perché queste parole scritte sono così difficili da capire?”, pensa Bianca, in lacrime. “Perché non riesce a capire un testo così semplice?”, si domanda, scoraggiata, l’insegnante. A partire da queste domande, il libro si rivolge a insegnanti, educatori, assistenti alla comunicazione, genitori di bambini con disabilità o bisogni speciali...