Philosophy and theory of education Books
University College Dublin Press Doing Research in Education: A Beginner's Guide
Book SynopsisDoing Research in Education: A Beginner’s Guide is written for the novice education researcher. It offers practical advice and guidance for each step of the research process including choosing what to research; formulating a research question; deciding on a suitable research methodology; and writing a thesis. A range of research methodologies are explored within the book and each associated chapter outlines the suitability and applicability of that methodology and offers concrete suggestions for its use. Further chapters are dedicated to navigating the relevant research literature; ethics; researching vulnerable groups; the use of technology; conducting research through Irish; and connecting research to teaching practice. The book’s chapters are written by experienced education researchers, each of whom has extensive experience of guiding students through their first education research project as well as publishing widely within education themselves. This book is carefully tailored to complement existing research methodology modules and will support the student as they navigate the challenges and rewards of undertaking research in education.
£23.75
John Catt Educational Ltd Born to Fail?: Social Mobility: A Working Class
Book SynopsisSonia Blandford, CEO of award-winning charity Achievement for All, writes brilliantly and honestly about the facing up to the realities of the white working class and how to address social mobility from the inside. No-one in the UK is better placed than Sonia to write about the struggles of white working class pupils in our schools. She grew up on the Allied Estate in Hounslow and was the first member of her family to pursue education beyond the age of 14 and was also the first to attend university. Sonia lost her mother when she took an accidental overdose, when she couldn't read the doctor's prescription. This tragic failing served as one of the inspirations for her to set up the award-winning Achievement for All organisation, who work with thousands of schools to help close the attainment gap. Born to Fail? tackles head-on issues such as why education often doesn't matter to the working class; how education has failed to deliver for them; the importance of self-belief, action and confidence; and how the Early Years is the crucial time to build success from the start.Trade Review'Sonia Blandford's book hit me like a ducking in freezing water. My starting point was the opposite to hers - privileged and certain I could change the world. She says of the working class 'it isn't about rescuing them. It's about valuing them and allowing them to develop in their own way'. Written with great clarity and personal insight, this is a book which, if taken seriously, especially by educationists and policy makers, really could change the world and I personally wish I had had the benefits of its wisdom fifty years ago. It is a perfect read for anyone wanting to see a more equitable society in modern Britain.' -- Sir Stephen O'Brien CBE (Founding Chair Teach First; Founding CEO Business in the Community and London First) 'Blandford may be the first Professor to have failed her English qualification five times - but this heart-ripping, brain-provoking book uses words perfectly to explain why class is not the same as disadvantage, why social mobility isn't something well-educated teachers can hand to chosen children but is something every child must be helped to choose for themselves, and why something as simple as playing the cornet in a school musical can be life-changing. Practical, hard-hitting, and packed with evidence, this is a manifesto for looking again at how we really make schools work for everyone.' -- Laura McInerney, Editor of Schools Week 'This book offers a genuinely new and unique approach to the debate on social mobility by using the author's own experience of growing up and succeeding from a working class background. Sonia shows how we need to understand the impact of working class experience and values on learners if we are to successfully shape educational policy and interventions which really have a chance of success. Building on her own extensive experience of implementing life changing programmes in education she explores what needs to change in our system to turn around the fact that social mobility is going backwards. This is a must read analysis if you are interested in making a difference in this area.' -- Brian Lamb, OBE (Special Educational Needs and Disability policy expert and Government adviser)Sonia Blandford's book hit me like a ducking in freezing water. My starting point was the opposite to hers - privileged and certain I could change the world. She says of the working class 'it isn't about rescuing them. It's about valuing them and allowing them to develop in their own way'. Written with great clarity and personal insight, this is a book which, if taken seriously, especially by educationists and policy makers, really could change the world and I personally wish I had had the benefits of its wisdom fifty years ago. It is a perfect read for anyone wanting to see a more equitable society in modern Britain. Sir Stephen O'Brien CBE (Founding Chair Teach First; Founding CEO Business in the Community and London First Blandford may be the first Professor to have failed her English qualification five times - but this heart-ripping, brain-provoking book uses words perfectly to explain why class is not the same as disadvantage, why social mobility isn't something well-educated teachers can hand to chosen children but is something every child must be helped to choose for themselves, and why something as simple as playing the cornet in a school musical can be life-changing. Practical, hard-hitting, and packed with evidence, this is a manifesto for looking again at how we really make schools work for everyone Laura McInerney, Editor of Schools Week This book offers a genuinely new and unique approach to the debate on social mobility by using the author's own experience of growing up and succeeding from a working class background. Sonia shows how we need to understand the impact of working class experience and values on learners if we are to successfully shape educational policy and interventions which really have a chance of success. Building on her own extensive experience of implementing life changing programmes in education she explores what needs to change in our system to turn around the fact that social mobility is going backwards. This is a must read analysis if you are interested in making a difference in this area. Brian Lamb, OBE (Special Educational Needs and Disability policy expert and Government adviser)
£14.50
John Catt Educational Ltd Learning With Leonardo: Unfinished Perfection:
Book SynopsisWhat are the seven key concepts that drove Da Vinci's inventive thinking and how can we still use them to improve our own creativity, 500 years after his death? In pursuit of the unified learning principles that sit at the heart of his work, Ian Warwick and Ray Speakman brilliantly explore the approaches that we need to take to make our own learning more original and thoughtful.Trade ReviewLeonardo's notebooks, those astonishing collections of eclectic wisdom, play a big part in this book and the experience of reading Unfinished Perfection even chimes with that -- fascinating ideas from a huge range of authors and fields of human endeavour are beautifully brought together with the authors own insights to stimulate thought about how we should think and how we should educate. I recommend it highly. --Professor Sir Jonathan Bate
£17.00
John Catt Educational Ltd What Is Wrong With Our Schools? The ideology
Book Synopsis"What is wrong with our schools?" is the question everyone seems to be asking, or more like screaming nowadays. Standard answers point to everything from school funding to unions to bureaucracies and more. In this book, Daniel Buck provides a different answer: flawed ideas - ideas about instruction, curriculum, even human nature itself - are the root cause of American schooling's dysfunction.Touching on philosophy, contemporary educational studies, cognitive science, and his own experience in the classroom, Buck argues that so long as we build our system on incorrect first principles, all other reforms are for naught. In place of the progressive education that pervades our schools, Buck argues for a traditionalist approach - classic literature, direct instruction, sequenced curricula, clear rules and consequences - as the education we need for the future.Trade ReviewDaniel Buck's book opens with a disquieting anecdote. He had read aloud with students from a shared novel, enriched the book with background knowledge, and led a whole-class discussion but Buck's students had never experienced anything like it. That such traditional methods were utterly foreign to his students, whose only experience was in schools informed by romantic and "progressive" theories of education, is the starting point to a book full of observations and reflections that are carefully researched, insightful, and grounded in student welfare. Unbeknownst to his students, Buck's "new" way of teaching drew on traditional concepts of instruction informed by research into cognitive and social science. This is a profoundly thoughtful and important book. -- Doug Lemov, author, Teach Like a ChampionI have followed Daniel Buck's work for years. He is emerging as an indispensable and engaging voice on education. If he writes with more authority than most, it's because his views were formed not in an ivory tower, but as a classroom teacher who takes seriously his responsibility to other people's children. What is Wrong With Our Schools? will bring his insights to the broader audience he richly deserves. -- Robert Pondiscio, senior fellow, American Enterprise InstituteThere's plenty in this smart, hard-hitting book to make anyone feel pessimistic about the state of American education. But optimism is still in order, because Buck has picked up the mantle of traditionalism for a new generation. -- Michael Petrilli, president, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
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Waldorf Early Childhood Association North America Education -- Health for Life: Education and
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive and in-depth collection of twenty articles from the 2006 Kolisko conferences.Named for Waldorf educator and anthroposophic physician Eugen Kolisko, the Kolisko conferences bring together pedagogical and therapeutic tools found in Waldorf education. In 2006, there were nine such Kolisko conferences held worldwide, and this book brings together the key lectures into a single volume, newly revised. Topics include healthy timetabling, development of physiology, professional ethics, meditations for teachers, medical diagnostics and therapies, spirituality in science, art and religion, children and drugs, children and computer games, parent collaboration, the college of teachers and many more.
£14.24
Waldorf Early Childhood Association North America Transitions in Childhood from Birth to 14 Years:
Book SynopsisThis book collects lectures given in 2015 at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. 550 people from 46 countries, including Waldorf educators, scholars, and professionals in a wide range of fields, came together to work on current educational questions with the goal of deepening our understanding of child and human development.Claus-Peter Röh of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum summarised the mood at the end of the conference: 'We have tried, with great intensity and candour, to create a community of awareness around various areas of education. The desire to always keep the idea of a whole in mind while discerning the individual was clearly apparent . . . Now we stand before the challenge of further developing our collective work and newly gained insights into the future.'Contributors include Florian Osswald, Ursula Flatters, Susan Weber, Elizabeth Hall, Clara Aerts, Reinoud Engelsman and Claus-Peter Röh.These texts will serve as a basis for further study activity and can contribute to a greater collaborative activity in the Waldorf kindergarten and school movement.Table of ContentsTransitions: The In-Between Room for Play Autonomy -- Florian OsswaldTransitions in Childhood: A Medical View of Crises and their Consequences in Later Life -- Ursula FlattersMetamorphoses in the Development of the 'I' from Birth to Age Fourteen -- Susan WeberMetamorphoses in the Development of the 'I' from Birth to Age Fourteen -- Elizabeth HallTogether in the Stream of Life Metamorphoses in the Adult's Inner Attitude in Relation to the Child -- Clara AertsTogether in the Stream of Life Metamorphoses in the Adult's Inner Attitude in Relation to the Child -- Reinoud EngelsmanConfiguring Spaces Shaping Time in Childhood Building Developmental Bridges for the Future -- Claus-Peter Röh
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Waldorf Publications Entry Points: A Guide to Rudolf Steiner's Study
Book SynopsisThis book is designed to help the reader find points of comprehension in the original lectures that Rudolf Steiner gave to the teachers in the first Waldorf school.The extraordinary and revolutionary pictures and ideas in the original lectures can feel overwhelmingly lofty at times; the helpful insights provided in this Study Guide can move a reader forward in understanding the height and depth of the ideals and ideas given by Rudolf Steiner to those wishing to become Waldorf teachers.Interesting insights, in-depth background materials to aid understanding, and incisive questions to stimulate clear thinking and effective dialogue are the hallmarks of this aid to study. The book includes a summary of each lecture, commentary and study questions.
£22.50
Waldorf Publications Awakening Spirit: Freeing the Will
Book SynopsisRudolf Steiner cautioned the first Steiner-Waldorf teachers to understand that it is not what we teach, but who we are, that is all-important when facing children in a classroom. In this helpful resource, Renwick draws from Rudolf Steiner's teachings in The Philosophy of Freedom and presents the wisdom from this text in an accessible and practical way. He explores the teacher's role and responsibility in leading young people to maturity. Awakening Spirit is brief, clear and comprehensive. It offers a new perspective on the importance of and the strengthening available to teachers through the study of Steiner's work.
£15.29
Waldorf Publications Play Recorders in the Classroom
Book SynopsisA practical guide for teachers teaching the recorder to their pupils in Classes 6 and 7, with numerous uplifting and simple songs to help students grow their skills and confidence.
£20.69
Waldorf Publications Arithmetic with Zoological Considerations
Book SynopsisA practical and helpful guide to teaching mathematics from Dr Karl König, founder of the Camphill movement.
£18.00
Waldorf Publications Reading and Writing while Sparking the
Book SynopsisA practical and helpful guide to teaching writing and reading from Dr Karl König, founder of the Camphill movement.
£15.75
Waldorf Publications The History of Waldorf Education Worldwide:
Book SynopsisIn 1919 the original Steiner-Waldorf school opened its doors, becoming the first of over 1000 Waldorf schools and kindergartens which now exist around the world.This comprehensive first volume from Nana Göbel, founder of Friends of Waldorf Education, explores the history of Waldorf education from its roots to the end of the Second World War.Göbel captures the mood of the early days of Waldorf education, sharing the vision and dedication of those who established the schools in the first half of the twentieth century. She details the remarkable and rapid appearance of Waldorf schools throughout Britain, Europe, and North America.Featuring over 150 photographs, this is a rich and inspiring account of the early days of this landmark new approach to education.
£25.50
Waldorf Publications For the Love of Language
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Waldorf Publications Kicking Away the Ladder: The Philosophical Roots
Book SynopsisAs Waldorf education approaches its 100th anniversary, this book provides a wonderful opportunity to understand the ideals and philosophy behind this extraordinary educational approach.This thoughtful book will lift the reader's own thinking as it traces from the philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment into the twentieth century, showing what led to the revolution in modern thinking that opened the way for the ideas of Rudolf Steiner.It will be significant for anyone interested in understanding the roots and context of Waldorf education.
£16.19
Springer International Publishing AG Integrating Emotions and Cognition Throughout the Lifespan
Book SynopsisThis book synthesizes the literature on emotional development and cognition across the lifespan. The book proposes a core language by which to describe positive and problematic developmental changes by recourse to a parsimonious set of core principles, such as elevations or declines in tension thresholds and their relation to the waxing and waning of the cognitive system over the life course. It integrates, similarly, the lifelong consequences of the positive or damaging aspects of the social milieu in fostering increases in tension thresholds with their advanced capacity for maintaining equilibrium and warding off stress versus a lowering of tension thresholds with disturbances of equilibrium maintenance and heightened susceptibility to stress and deregulation.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Preface.- Chapter 2. Introduction.- Chapter 3. Emotions and Cognition: From Myth and Philosophy to Modern Psychology and Neurobiology.- Chapter 4. Equilibrium and Disequilibrium in Development.- Chapter 5. Emotions in Infancy.- Chapter 6. Emotions in Childhood.- Chapter 7. Adolescence to Early Adulthood.- Chapter 8. Middle Adulthood.- Chapter 9. Aging.- Chapter 10. Postscript.
£42.74
Verlag Herder Umgang Mit Aggressivem Verhalten Von Kindern:
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Verlag Herder Kosmische Erziehung: Erziehung Fur Die Eine Welt
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Brill Schoningh Pädagogisch Handeln: Theorie Für Die Praxis
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Bod Third Party Titles Heimerziehung und Jugendhilfe in Deutschland TheoriePraxisProjektPraktikum
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Grin Publishing Dialog Demenz von der Alzheimer Gesellschaft P eV Dialog und sanfte Intervention Ein Projekt
£14.31
Springer VS Operativität Erziehung Differenz
Book SynopsisGrundprobleme einer operative Theorie des Erziehens in differenztheoretischer Lektüre.- Systemtheoretische Perspektiven.- Praxis- und diskurstheoretische Perspektiven.- Phänomenologische Perspektiven.- Wie weiter? Systemtheorie, Praxis- und Diskurstheorie und Phänomenologie im Diskurs.
£47.49
Springer VS Lehre und Forschung
Book SynopsisDas Mysterium von Forschung und Lehre.- Ist Forschung ein Modell für die Lehre?.- Einheit von Forschung und Lehre?: Bildungsphilosophische Überlegungen nach Wilhelm von Humboldt.- Unabsichtliche Kognitionen in Lehr- und Forschungspausen? Von nicht-intentionalen Verarbeitungsprozessen im Hochschulkontext.- Begriffsklärung mit Methoden nach dem Pyramidenprinzip ein Vorschlag zur Synergie zwischen Forschung und Lehre.- Wie könnte eine geschlechtergerechte(re) Lehre klassischer Werke derPhilosophie aussehen? Impulse der Forschung.- Von forschendem Lernen zu lehrendem Forschen? Das geisteswissenschaftliche Konferenzseminar als Brücke zwischen Forschung und Lehre.- Anstiftung zur Forschung Theaterwissenschaftliche Master- Projektübungen als Impulsgeber und Katalysator für Lehre und Studium.- Im Widerspruch zur Forschung: Lehre als Berufung begreifen durch agile Hochschuldidaktik und digitale Tools.
£50.99
Springer-Verlag GmbH Sport Unterricht Lernen aus Sicht von Sportlehrpersonen
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Twentysix In der Hölle (?): Meine Klasse. Eine
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BoD - Books on Demand Über Pädagogik oder Von der physischen und praktischen Erziehung des Menschen
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Brill U Schoningh Einfuhrung in Die Erziehungs- Und
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Academia Bewegtes Lernen Im Fach Mathematik: Klassen 5 Bis
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£22.80
Science Factory Traumapädagogik in der stationären Kinder- und
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Valiz Nearness: Art and Education after Covid-19
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The University of Chicago Press Action Versus Contemplation
Book SynopsisIt is truly an ancient debate: Is it better to be active or contemplative? With Action vs. Contemplation, Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule address the question in a refreshingly unexpected way: by refusing to take sides.Trade Review"A fascinating and inspiring tour of big ideas--worth both contemplating and acting on."--Sarah Bakewell, author of At the Existentialist Cafe "Action versus Contemplation brings a cooling sense of balance to a whole range of important and often highly polarized arguments about technology, work, education, and more. How liberating to discover that we don't need to choose between nostalgia and philistinism, Captain Ludd and Dr. Pangloss. Even better, the authors give us not just historical elaborations of the theoretical complementarity of action and contemplation, but actual, already-existing examples of the middle position at work today. They show us that, no matter how 'soulless' society seems to become, meaning-seeking behavior does and always will continue."--William Deresiewicz, author of Excellent Sheep "This is a very subtle and surprising book that nevertheless goes down easy because you expect it to take a side in a binary (i.e., to take your side), but instead it seeks to transcend that binary. There's great generosity of spirit in their writing and thinking, and that generosity will have a salutary effect on all those whose thinking this book will touch. Action versus Contemplation is itself a contemplative document meant to intervene in the world it addresses, to get us to rethink practical matters, and to act in ways that will promote thinking. It urges action as a way of thinking, and thinking as a way of acting, and is a model of what it advocates for." --William Flesch, Brandeis University
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The University of Chicago Press Africa and the Disciplines
Book SynopsisAddresses the question: Why should Africa be studied in the American university? Put to scholars in the social sciences and humanities, prominent Africanists who are also leaders in their various disciplines, their responses make a strong case for the research on Africa.
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The University of Chicago Press Paradoxes of Education in a Republic
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The University of Chicago Press Education and the Cult of Efficiency Emersion
Book SynopsisRaymond Callahan's lively study exposes the alarming lengths to which school administrators went, particularly in the period from 1910 to 1930, in sacrificing educational goals to the demands of business procedures. He suggests that even today the question still asked is: How can we operate our schools? Society has not yet learned to ask: How can we provide an excellent education for our children?
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The University of Chicago Press On Education
Book SynopsisIn this collection, Reginald D. Archambault has assembled John Dewey's major writings on education. He has also included basic statements of Dewey's philosophic position that are relevant to understanding his educational views. These selections are useful not only for understanding Dewey's pedagogical principles, but for illustrating the important relation between his educational theory and the principles of his general philosophy.
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The University of Chicago Press The Aims of Higher Education Problems of Morality
Book SynopsisLooking beyond the arguments over how universities should be financed, how they should be run, and what their contributions to the economy are, the contributors to this book set their sights on higher issues: ones of moral and political value. What are the proper aims of the university? What role do the liberal arts play in fulfilling those aims?Trade Review"This is an ambitious volume, providing valuable philosophical tools to tackle three critical policy questions within higher education: What should the content of curricula and pedagogies be? Who should have access to college education? And what should be the relationship between higher education and broader society?" (Danielle Allen, coeditor of Education, Justice, and Democracy)
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The University of Chicago Press A Companion to John Deweys Democracy and
Book SynopsisThis year marks the centenary publication of John Dewey's magnum opus, Democracy and Education. Despite its profound importance as a foundational text in education, it is notoriously difficult and dare we say it a little dry. In this charming and often funny companion, noted philosopher of education D. C. Phillips goes chapter by chapter to bring Dewey to a twenty-first-century audience. Drawing on over fifty years of thinking about this book and on his own experiences as an educator he lends it renewed clarity and a personal touch that proves its lasting importance. Phillips bridges several critical pitfalls of Democracy and Education that often prevent contemporary readers from fully understanding it. Where Dewey sorely needs a detailed example to illustrate a point and the times are many Phillips steps in, presenting cases from his own classroom experiences. Where Dewey casually refers to the works of people like Hegel, Herbart, and Locke common knowledge, apparently, in 1916 Philli
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The University of Chicago Press Educational Goods Values Evidence and
Book SynopsisWe spend a lot of time arguing about how schools might be improved. But we rarely take a step back to ask what we as a society should be looking for from education what exactly should those who make decisions be trying to achieve? In Educational Goods, two philosophers and two social scientists address this very question. They begin by broadening the language for talking about educational policy: educational goods are the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that children develop for their own benefit and that of others; childhood goods are the valuable experiences and freedoms that make childhood a distinct phase of life. Balancing those, and understanding that not all of them can be measured through traditional methods, is a key first step. From there, they show how to think clearly about how those goods are distributed and propose a method for combining values and evidence to reach decisions. They conclude by showing the method in action, offering detailed accounts of how it might be ap
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The University of Chicago Press Patriotic Education in a Global Age History and
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The University of Chicago Press Making Up Our Mind What School Choice Is Really
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The University of Chicago Press Homeschooling
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The University of Chicago Press Science Curriculum and Liberal Education Selected
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The University of Chicago Press Critical Teaching and Everyday Life
Book SynopsisIn this unique book on education, Shor develops teaching theory side-by-side with a political analysis of schooling. Drawing on the work of Paulo Freire, he offers the first practical and theoretical guide to Freirean methods for American classrooms. Central to his method is a commitment to learning through dialogue and to exploring themes from everyday life. He poses alienation and mass culture as key obstacles to learning, and establishes critical literacy as a foundation for studying any subject.
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The University of Chicago Press Touchy Subject
Book SynopsisA case for sex education that puts it in historical and philosophical context. In the United States, sex education is more than just an uncomfortable rite of passage: it's a political hobby horse that is increasingly out of touch with young people's needs. In Touchy Subject, philosopher Lauren Bialystok and historian Lisa M. F. Andersen unpack debates over sex education, explaining why it's worth fighting for, what points of consensus we can build upon, and what sort of sex education schools should pursue in the future. Andersen surveys the history of school-based sex education in the United States, describing the key question driving reform in each era. In turn, Bialystok analyzes the controversies over sex education to make sense of the arguments and offer advice about how to make educational choices today. Together, Bialystok and Andersen argue for a novel framework, Democratic Humanistic Sexuality Education, which exceeds the current conception of comprehensive sex education Trade Review“Touchy Subject tackles an incredibly important and vexing subject: sex education and its place in public schooling. Andersen and Bialystok team up to provide an engaging look back at the mostly terrible ways that we have approached sex education in North America. They examine the aims and arguments for sex education in public schools and propose an enlightened but politically liberal approach they call ‘Democratic Humanistic Sexuality Education.’ This approach foregrounds children’s interests and needs in health and well-being, and a pluralistic society’s interest in religious neutrality." -- Ann E. Cudd, University of Pittsburgh“To casual observers, it might seem as if Americans are hopelessly divided on sex education in public schools. Bialystok and Andersen do an admirable job of moving beyond the standard assumption of a simple, implacable culture-war divide on the issue and pave the way for productive discussion.” -- Adam Laats, Binghamton University, SUNYCoauthored by a historian (Anderson) and a philosopher (Bialystok), Touchy Subject’s unique premise is built on two parts: three chapters explaining the trajectory of sex education in the US in the 20th century and three chapters making the normative case for a version of robust sex education in which the state balances the needs of adolescents and the rights of parents . . . This is a book for public school teachers and academics, and it will be particularly useful for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in the fields of education and women, gender, and sexuality studies. Recommended." * Choice *"Touchy Subject is a brisk, lively, accessible introduction to a vast field of scholarly inquiry." * Theory and Research in Education *" . . . .co-authors Lauren Bialystok and Lisa M. F. Andersen tackle the always delicate subject of sex education with admirable clarity and scholarly insight." -- Josh Corngold, Philosophical Inquiry in EducationTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 1 Prudish or Prudent: The Origins of Classroom-Based Sex Education, 1880–1922 2 Happiness or Public Health: Sex Education’s Shifting Purposes, 1920–1970 3 Peers or Professionals: Authority, Activism, and Sex Education, 1970–2000 4 How Much Room Is There for Disagreement? 5 Who’s the Boss? 6 What Are Schools For? Conclusion: We’re Out of Touch Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Opinionated University
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The University of Chicago Press Changing Schools Progressive Education Theory and
Book SynopsisNearly one hundred years ago America's foremost philosopher of education, John Dewey, set in motion the progressive education movementan effort to enhance both child and community by establishing schools that would focus on the needs and interests of children, thereby turning out more productive citizens. To what degree did these ideas actually change the day-to-day lives of school children? What can the progressive education movement teach us about the conditions that facilitate and impede the implementation of new ideas about schools? Through a focus on actual classroom practices in several school systems in the Chicago area, Zilversmit examines the impact of Dewey's ideas at a national and local level. He looks at the course of progressivism from the 1930s, when its influence was at its height but reform was difficult because of the Depression, through the post-World War II period when the baby boom led to rapid school expansion. The new affluence made reform possible, but the Cold
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Palgrave Macmillan Psychopedagogy
Book SynopsisExamining the work of Lacan and Freud, Cho argues that a theory of pedagogy is already embedded within psychoanalysis. Psychopedagogy is the name given to this embedded theory. Through a discussion of key psychoanalytic concepts, as well as a variety of other topics, Cho develops the contours of psychopedagogy.Trade Review"In one of his famous dictums, Freud refers to (psycho)analysis, education, and politics as the three impossible professions. Although taking place all around us, these professions are ridden and driven by an inherent impossibility or, to put it with Lacan, by a real that makes their theory and practice all the more intriguing and revealing. Yet in different and numerous attempts to think through the inherent connections between the three fields, educating somehow got much less conceptual and critical attention than the other two. This is just one of many reasons that makes Cho s book so precious and indispensable. What makes it all the more valuable is that, far from being an attempt to simply apply psychoanalysis to education, it really ventures to think through their inherent connections, proposing many a revealing and intriguing insight." - Alenka Zupancic, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Slovene Academy of Sciences, Ljubljana.Table of ContentsPedagogy with Psychoanalysis PART I: PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE PSYCHOPEDAGOGY The Unconscious: A Form of Knowledge On the Ego and Other Strategies of Resistance Transference or, When Discourses Shift: Toward a Theory of Psychopedagogical Technique PART II: SECONDARY REVISIONS Wo es war : Marxism, the Unconscious, and Subjectivity Pedagogy of the Repressed or, Repetition as a Pedagogical Factor Education by Way of Truths: Lacan with Badion Lessons of Love: On Pedagogical Love Teaching Abjection: The Politics of Psychopedagogy
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Columbia University Press The Great Civilized Conversation
Book SynopsisThe world-renowned scholar suggests a new approach to education that can sustain humanistic learning in a globalized culture.Trade ReviewThough it is a collection of previously published articles, it attains a coherence and concentration such collections seldom achieve...[a] rich and rewarding book. -- Robert N. Bellah First Things Perhaps [The Great Civilized Conversation's] most striking feature is the care, and indeed passion, with which core concepts from different epochs of the Confucian educational tradition in East Asia are articulated and interpreted for a wider world community... [A] lifetime of sustained and cumulative effort... is represented in this remarkable volume.Sino Western Journal Sino Western JournalTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Part 1. Education and the Core Curriculum 1. Education for a World Community 2. "Starting on the Road" with John Erskine & Co. 3. The Great "Civilized" Conversation: A Case in Point 4. A Shared Responsibility to Past and Future 5. Asia in the Core Curriculum 6. What Is "Classic"? 7. Classic Cases in Point Part 2. Liberal Learning in Confucianism 8. Human Renewal and the Repossession of the Way 9. Zhu Xi and Liberal Education 10. Confucian Individualism and Personhood 11. Zhu Xi's Educational Program 12. Self and Society in Ming Thought 13. The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea 14. Confucianism and Human Rights 15. China and the Limits of Liberalism Part 3. Tributes and Memoirs 16. Huang Zongxi and Qian Mu 17. Tang Junyi and New Asia College 18. Ryusaku Tsunoda Sensei 19. Thomas Merton, Matteo Ricci, and Confucianism Appendix. Wm. Theodore de Bary: A Life in Conversation Index
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