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  • Home Education

    Home Education consists of six lectures by Charlotte Mason about the raising and educating of young children (up to the age of nine), for parents and teachers. She encourages us to spend a lot of time outdoors, immersed in nature and handling natural objects and collecting experiences on which to base the rest of their education. She discusses the use of training in good habits such as attention, ... Read more

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  • Towards A Philosophy Of Education

    With linked Table of Contents

    'Towards a Philosophy of Education' is Charlotte Mason's final book in her Homeschooling Series, written after years of seeing her approach in action. This volume gives the best overview of her philosophy, and includes the final version of her 20 Principles. This book is particularly directed to parents of older children, about ages 12 and up, but is a valuable overview for parents of younger ... Read more

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  • The Absorbent Mind

    Maria Montessori was 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 public and private schools throughout the world. In 1947 she returned to India and gave courses in Adyar and Ahmedabad. These courses led to the book The Absorbent Mind, in which Montessori described ... Read more

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  • Ourselves: Our Souls and Bodies

    With linked Table of Contents

    'Ourselves', the fourth volume of Charlotte Mason's Classic Homeschooling Series, is a character curriculum book written directly to children. 'Book I, Self-Knowledge', is for elementary school students; 'Book II, Self-Direction', is for older students. 'Self-Knowledge' discusses our human desires and appetites; the "helpers" in our minds, such as intellect, sense of beauty, imagination, and ... Read more

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  • Translanguaging and Transformative Teaching for Emergent Bilingual Students

    Lessons from the CUNY-NYSIEB Project

    A critical and accessible text, this book provides a foundation for translanguaging theory and practice with educating emergent bilingual students. The product of the internationally renowned and trailblazing City University of New York-New York State Initiative on Emergent Bilinguals (CUNY-NYSIEB), this book draws on a common vision of translanguaging to present different perspectives of its ... Read more

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  • A People's History of Classics

    Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

    A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century.This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between the ... Read more

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  • Community Development and Schools

    Conflict, Power and Promise

    This book lays out the promise and potential of schools as community-building institutions. It explores the challenges faced in incorporating schools into broader community development policy, and also recognizes the changing demographics of schools and their need to integrate with economic development policy in order to promote broader community development.The book includes chapters on tax ... Read more

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  • Pedagogy of Hope

    Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed

    by Paulo Freire ...
    With the publication of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire established himself as one of the most important and radical educational thinkers of his time. In Pedagogy of Hope, Freire revisits the themes of his masterpiece, the real world contexts that inspired them and their impact in that very world. Freire's abiding concern for social justice and education in the developing world remains as ... Read more

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  • Questing Excellence in Academia

    A Tale of Two Universities

    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    Unlike almost most other studies of neoliberal universities and academic capitalism this book ethnographically explores and interprets those transformations and their contradictions empirically in the everyday practices of students, faculty members, and administrators at two public universities: NTNU in Norway and UCLA in California.Differently situated in global political economies, both are ... Read more

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  • Pledging Allegiance

    The Politics of Patriotism in American's Schools

    Edited by Joel Westheimer ...
    Series series Teaching for Social Justice Series
    What does it mean to be “patriotic” in the United States after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001? And how have the prevailing notions of patriotism—loudly trumpeted in the American media—affected education in American schools? In this spirited book, renowned educational leaders and classroom practitioners answer these questions with insights, opinions, and hard facts. They focus on ... Read more

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  • The Essential Renewal of America's Schools

    A Leadership Guide for Democratizing Schools from the Inside Out

    What can today’s educational leaders do to create schools that are purposeful, moral, and successful? In this book, Glickman and Mette provide a powerful set of guidelines that will lead to true school renewal. Using a practical framework for school, district, and community leaders, their roadmap replaces dependence on top-down state and federal regulations, focusing instead on the creation of ... Read more

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  • The Aptitude Myth

    How an Ancient Belief Came to Undermine Children’s Learning Today

    The Aptitude Myth addresses the decline in American children’s mastery of critical school subjects. It contends that a contributing cause for this decline derives from many Americans’ ways of thinking about children’s learning: They believe that school performance is determined very largely by innate aptitude. The Aptitude Myth traces the deep historical origins, the spread and elaboration, and ... Read more

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  • Surpassing Shanghai

    An Agenda for American Education Built on the World's Leading Systems

    Edited by Marc S. Tucker ...
    This book answers a simple question: How would one redesign the American education system if the aim was to take advantage of everything that has been learned by countries with the world’s best education systems?With a growing number of countries outperforming the United States on the most respected comparisons of student achievement—and spending less on education per student—this question is ... Read more

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  • Using What Works

    Elementary School Classroom Management

    Many teachers-in-training and their more experienced colleagues find classroom management challenging. Using what works: Elementary School Classroom Management invites elementary school to look beyond untested teacher strategies. Instead this book presents an evidence-based approach. Equipped with a greater knowledge of scientifically informed classroom management, teachers will learn how and why ... Read more

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  • Retos de la educación ante la Agenda 2030

    Los ODS entre el humanismo y la ecologia

    Series Book 25 - LA NAU SOLIDÀRIA
    Un análisis multidisciplinar en torno a la educación como factor determinante para la consecución de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible previstos en la Agenda 2030. Los autores, desde sus diferentes disciplinas, presentan un conjunto de reflexiones y propuestas de calado ético cuyo objetivo es contribuir a paliar los problemas de justicia que asolan nuestro mundo. Sin embargo, además de ... Read more

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  • F.D.E. Schleiermacher’s Outlines of the Art of Education

    A Translation & Discussion

    Series Book 2 - Paedagogica
    "One must assume we are all familiar with what is commonly called ‘education.’" This is how Schleiermacher begins his famous 1826 lecture on the Art of Education. But in proceeding further—and unlike Rousseau or Locke before him—Schleiermacher carefully avoids assuming that education is primarily about a return to nature or about "soundness" of mind and body. Education is instead an ethical and ... Read more

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  • Reinventing Higher Education

    The Promise of Innovation

    The inspiration for this timely book is the pressing need for fresh ideas and innovations in U.S. higher education. At the heart of the volume is the realization that higher education must evolve in fundamental ways if it is to respond to changing professional, economic, and technological circumstances, and if it is to successfully reach and prepare a vast population of students—traditional and ... Read more

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  • How To Overcome Stage Fright

    Guitar series, #1

    by Dino Paniccia ...
    Series Book 1 - Guitar series
    Unlock Your True Potential: Conquer Stage Fright and Master the Art of Guitar Performance!Are you an aspiring electric guitarist struggling to overcome stage fright and deliver your best performances?Look no further! In "How to Overcome Stage Fright," seasoned guitarist Dino D Paniccia shares invaluable insights and battle-tested strategies to help you confidently step onto the stage, banish ... Read more

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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Prison Education

    Edited by Erin S. Corbett ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    Finalist: PROSE Awards 2025 - Education Theory and PracticeWritten by activists and scholars based in Australia, Kenya, Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa, Uganda and the USA, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Prison Education offers the first global state-of-the-field overview of research into educational practices and programs in prisons. It covers the history of the field and puts forward future ... Read more

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  • Continuity and Innovation in Honors College Curricula

    Series series Honors Education in Transition
    Continuity and Innovation in Honors College Curricula is the second volume in the edited series Honors Education in Transition, which examines the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened without systematic attempts to align what honors means across ... Read more

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  • What Kind of Citizen?

    Educating Our Children for the Common Good

    As democracy faces increasing struggles around the globe, there has never been a more important time to talk about civic education and the core democratic purposes of schooling. What Kind of Citizen? asks readers to imagine the society they would like to live in and then shows how schools can make that vision a reality. This updated edition responds to the many challenges that have occurred since ... Read more

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  • From Boardroom To Blackboard

    1, #1

    by Nick Ryan ...
    Series Book 1 - 1
    From Boardroom to Blackboard is a candid, insightful examination of modern public education through the rare lens of a seasoned business professional who steps into the classroom. Drawing on years of leadership, operations, and strategic decision-making experience, the author chronicles the transition from the private sector to teaching in a public school system—revealing both the promise and the ... Read more

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  • Enhancing Performance

    A Best Practices Guide for Innovations in Community Colleges

    Enhancing Performance: A Best Practices Guide for Innovations in Community Colleges is a collection of essays from community college leaders across the country addressing challenges facing today’s community colleges and providing practical, successful solutions their institutions have implemented. Some of the essays address foundational issues, including the role of innovation, strategic ... Read more

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  • Play and Social Justice

    Equity, Advocacy, and Opportunity

    Series Book 537 - Counterpoints
    The importance of play for healthy development is undeniable. Aspects of play have been linked to the development of social skills, health and fitness, motivation, curiosity, innovation, imagination, and problem solving. Both theory and research suggest that play of various types is critical for healthy development and that playfulness is an important quality across the life span. However, ... Read more

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