Drawing on a rich store of research that includes visits to nearly sixty public schools nationwide and hundreds of interviews conducted from the classroom to the White House, Toch has produced a book of impressive breadth, offering readers the full story of today's school reform…
This book provides a fresh critique of John Dewey and the progressive tradition and warns against the superficial renaissance of Deweyan philosophy present in many of today's modern liberal educational reform movements. Challenging the four pillars of Dewey's pragmatism--science…
What is the purpose of higher education, and how should we pursue it? Debates over these issues raged in the late nineteenth century as reformers introduced a new kind of university - one dedicated to free inquiry and the advancement of knowledge. In the first major study of mor…
Kamenetz argues that universities must radically change the way higher education is delivered and explains that institutions' futures lie in personal learning networks and paths, blending experiential and digital approaches as open-source educational models.
"This compelling and provocative volume illustrates how old ways for effecting social and educational change are no longer suited to the fast, flexible, and vulnerable new world of the 21st century. The authors guide readers through three ways of change that have defined global …
"This compelling and provocative volume illustrates how old ways for effecting social and educational change are no longer suited to the fast, flexible, and vulnerable new world of the 21st century. The authors guide readers through three ways of change that have defined global …
Chang Chih-tung and educational reform in China
Chang Chih-tung and educational reform in China
Eine Katastrophe rollt auf uns zu: die Kompetenzkatastrophe Unsere Welt verändert sich rasend und mit ihr die Anforderungen an uns. Wir benötigen heute völlig neue Fähigkeiten, um uns in der digitalen Welt zurechtzufinden und trotzdem menschengerecht zu handeln. Diesen Anforderu…
Introduction / Wang Chen, Edward P. St. John, Xu Li, and Cliona Hannon -- Part I: Education Equity Promoting Social Justice in Global Perspective -- The Global Access Challenge: Human Rights, Capital, and Capabilities Reconsidered / Edward P. St. John -- The Future of Abdias do …