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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Philosophy of Lifelong Education

    by Kenneth Wain ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Education
    This book, first published in 1987, provides a rigorous philosophical analysis of lifelong education. The author presents his arguments simply and directly so that the book is accessible to students who are new to philosophy and adult education. ... Read more

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  • James Britton on Education

    An Introductory Reader

    James Britton’s work addresses central educational questions that are as relevant today as they were half a century ago. Britton was the architect of a theory of language and learning which has influenced the thinking and practice of generations of teachers across the anglophone world. This Reader helps teachers and students explore his theories of the relationships between language and thought, ... Read more

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  • Education Policy and the Political Right

    The Burning Fuse beneath Schooling in the US, UK and Australia

    by Grant Rodwell ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
    This work attempts a comparative description and analysis, focusing on the US, the UK, and Australia on the topic of the Right, educational policy, and schooling. It adopts as its underlying theme the burning fuse in tracing the topic back to Joseph de Maistre a Rightist who fled revolutionary France to seek safety in the company of Tsar Alexander I’s Russian Empire. Here, he had much to say about ... Read more

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  • Critical Social Issues in American Education

    Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World

    Edited by H. Svi Shapiro ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    This text-reader brings together powerful readings that critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual crises that confront us as a nation and a global community. It provides a focus and a conceptual framework for thinking about education in light of these issues. Readers are exposed to the thinking of some of the ... Read more

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  • Literacy Teaching and Learning in Rural Communities

    Problematizing Stereotypes, Challenging Myths

    This definitive look at teaching English in rural secondary schools contests current definitions and discussions of rural education, examines their ideological and cultural foundations, and presents an alternative perspective that conceptualizes rural communities as diverse, unique, and conducive to pedagogical and personal growth in teaching and learning. Authentic narratives document individual ... Read more

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  • The Health Promoting School

    Policy, Research and Practice

    Under the UK Labour Government (1997-2001) there have been clear signs of a willingness to revive the 'pastoral' curriculum in schools and to develop stronger links between the health and eductaion sectors. This book, based on empirical work undertaken in England and throughout Europe, explores such government policy and in particular the development of the health promoting school.The authors ... Read more

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  • Transforming the Culture of Schools

    Yup¡k Eskimo Examples

    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    This book speaks directly to issues of equity and school transformation, and shows how one indigenous minority teachers' group engaged in a process of transforming schooling in their community. Documented in one small locale far-removed from mainstream America, the personal narratives by Yupík Eskimo teachers address the very heart of school reform. The teachers' struggles portray the first in a ... Read more

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  • Chicano School Failure and Success

    Past, Present, and Future

    Edited by Richard R. Valencia ...
    The third edition of the best selling collection, Chicano School Failure and Success presents a complete and comprehensive review of the multiple and complex issues affecting Chicano students today. Richly informative and accessibly written, this edition includes completely revised and updated chapters that incorporate recent scholarship and research on the current realities of the Chicano school ... Read more

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  • Education, Work and Leisure (Routledge Revivals)

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1970, this book considers the alleged distinction between ‘education for life’ and ‘education for work’ and exposes the fallacies on which this and other similar distinctions are based. It shows that ideas on this subject are inextricably intertwined with wider views on the nature of culture, the limits of individual educability and the provision of educational opportunities. ... Read more

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  • Shaping Sexual Knowledge

    A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    The history of sex education enables us to gain valuable insights into the cultural constructions of what different societies have defined as 'normal' sexuality and sexual health. Yet, the history of sex education has only recently attracted the full attention of historians of modern sexuality.Shaping Sexual Knowledge: A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe makes a ... Read more

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  • Multilingual Leadership in TESOL

    Multilingual Leadership in TESOL addresses issues related to leadership by and for multilingual individuals in the field. Chapters in this edited volume provide a strong theoretical grounding for multilingual leadership, use case studies and autoethnographies to showcase multilingual leaders’ backgrounds, and discuss challenges and opportunities for current and future leaders in TESOL. Presenting ... Read more

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  • A Decisão Da Autorrealizabilidade

    Ser original fica cada vez mais desafiador, mas é por esse motivo que esse livro foi escrito. Você vai poder avaliar áreas da sua vida com cada uma das habilidades necessárias para ter Autorrealizabilidade. Vença as suas limitações e realize tudo que você é capaz de realizar. ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Education in Light of Global Challenges

    Scandinavian Perspectives on Culture, Society, and the Anthropocene

    Series series Routledge Research in Education, Society and the Anthropocene
    Rethinking Education in Light of Global Challenges discusses challenges to education in Scandinavian welfare states due to global trends like migration, neoliberal strategies, and the exploitation of nature. This anthology comprises case studies, theoretical articles, and reflective studies, grouped under the headings of Culture, Society, and the Anthropocene.This book directly addresses three ... Read more

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  • Dictionary of Education

    by John Dewey ...
    This comprehensive A-to-Z resource covers the eminent philosopher's influential theories on education.One of the most prominent American philosophers of the twentieth century, John Dewey was also a major proponent of educational reform. He wrote extensively on teaching and pedagogy in works such as The School and Society, The Child and the Curriculum, and Democracy and Education, among others ... Read more

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  • No Size Fits All

    A New Program of Choice for American Public Schools without Vouchers

    "No Size Fits All" is a book whose time has come—a book that offers a proposal that could revolutionize public school policies in the United States at the federal, state and local levels. The book calls upon Congress to require all public school systems that benefit from federal funding to offer parents and children a choice of alternative schools, exempt from the broadly unpopular Common Core ... Read more

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