This book explores the history of the unschooling movement and the forces shaping the trajectory of the movement in current times. As an increasing number of families choose to unschool, it becomes important to further study this philosophical and educational movement. It is als…
This book explores the Daoist philosophies of qi and virtue through inquiry into their potential as technologies for cultivating good among individuals and society within educational settings, as well as more broadly in the modern world. The first part of the book, authored by J…
This book explores a broad range of innovations in education, such as flipped classrooms, the educational use of social media, mobile learning and educational resources. It also includes theoretical discussions and practical applications related to the use of augmented reality a…
"Educators have been looking for ways to move beyond critique but it has turned out to be easier to say what is wrong and what needs done than to actually do it. Through this book, Pennell has broken this logjam. She has taken critical pedagogy, critical literacy, and critical m…
"Educators have been looking for ways to move beyond critique but it has turned out to be easier to say what is wrong and what needs done than to actually do it. Through this book, Pennell has broken this logjam. She has taken critical pedagogy, critical literacy, and critical m…
This book presents theoretical and empirical research results of the shaping of subjects in non-traditional education institutions in Bogotá--Abstract on back cover.
This volume highlights the contributions of tutors and their pedagogies to the field of education, focusing on the lived-experiences of tutors in alternative education programs in New Zealand. Tutors' voices were largely absent from education literature, yet, they are charged wi…
This volume highlights the contributions of tutors and their pedagogies to the field of education, focusing on the lived-experiences of tutors in alternative education programs in New Zealand. Tutors' voices were largely absent from education literature, yet, they are charged wi…
This Executive Leadership Paper documents efforts to develop a comprehensive framework of promising practices to best serve Black and Latino boys. The educational and societal plight of this population is well documented and they are served in alternative schools and programs in…
This research explores the transformative potential and effect of democratic education as an alternative to mainstream hegemonic education. It examines and compares two unique schools in two diverse communities: The one is a bilingual (Spanish and English) multicultural public e…
Contesting international strategies for combatting child labour that derive from modern, Western conceptions of childhood, several developing country organizations have embraced the principle of child protagonism by declaring that working children can become the leading agents i…
The homeschooling movement has seen steady growth since its resurgence in the last half of the 20 th century. In the last several years, there have also been a growing number of African American and Muslim homeschoolers, adding to the diversity of the homeschooling community. Mu…
The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions toward distance learning in the private sector in Saudi Arabia. Specifically, this study aims to examine and explain the impact of the type of organizations and occupation on the perceptions of training managers and trainin…
This phenomenological case study describes how a Post-Correctional Education Intervention (PCEI) was developed for a local community-based organization that had recently constructed a transition house for formerly incarcerated adults who converted to Islam while incarcerated. Th…
Homeschooling is not an aberration but a phenomenon which many scholars believe to be associated with the most idiosyncratic individuals. As unconventional as this educational method may appear, the practice of educating children at home is one alternative to charter, public, pr…
The modernist paradigm of education seems to have failed in seeing an adequate rationale to advocate spiritual literacy and spiritual growth in schools because of its subscription to the secular worldview. Likewise, art educators, adhering to the secular sanctioning of spiritual…
The problem is that the secondary alternative faculty are faced with a variety of institutional barriers that are causing problems for at-risk students with accessing distance learning courses. The purpose of the study was to identify institutional barriers to distance learning …
