"This book offers description and analysis of philosophies that can provide scaffolding and justification for the construction of critical, democratic educational theory and practice. The reader is presented with a broad, historical treatment of ideas in their social, political,…
"Real Education describes schools in Britain, Ecuador, India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland and the U.S.A. Students vary from the children of carefully selected fee-paying parents to educational rejects and children of families in extreme poverty. Locations include inn…
"Real Education describes schools in Britain, Ecuador, India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland and the U.S.A. Students vary from the children of carefully selected fee-paying parents to educational rejects and children of families in extreme poverty. Locations include inn…
It has been suggested that the dominance of 'progressive' education after 1945 led to a backlash against permissive attitudes to pupils in both Western Europe and the United States. But British child-centred education, in alliance with developmental psychology, actually shaped a…
A Progressive Education?' argues that ideas about both childhood and adolescence were transformed in English and Welsh schools after WWII. Covering the period 1918 to 1979, this book shows that by putting childhood at the centre of the history of education, we can challenge the …
A Progressive Education?' argues that ideas about both childhood and adolescence were transformed in English and Welsh schools after WWII. Covering the period 1918 to 1979, this book shows that by putting childhood at the centre of the history of education, we can challenge the …
A Progressive Education?' argues that ideas about both childhood and adolescence were transformed in English and Welsh schools after WWII. Covering the period 1918 to 1979, this book shows that by putting childhood at the centre of the history of education, we can challenge the …
Since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, high-stakes testing has become a ubiquitous feature of public school children's daily rituals. Reform advocates argue that testing leads to greater alignment of the curriculum with teaching and learning, teacher and stud…
"As philosophers throughout the ages have asked: What is justice? What is truth? What is art? What is law? In Education Reconfigured, the internationally acclaimed philosopher of education, Jane Roland Martin, now asks: What is education? In answer, she puts forward a unified th…
Martin's 'theory of education as encounter' places culture alongside the individual at the heart of the educational process, thus responding to the call John Dewey made over a century ago for an enlarged outlook on education.
Martin's "theory of education as encounter" places culture alongside the individual at the heart of the educational process, thus responding to the call John Dewey made over a century ago for an enlarged outlook on education.
A Framework for Enhancing the Design Skill Sets of Landscape Architecture Students / Dr Gerhard Griesel and Prof Magda Fourie-Malherbe -- Integrating Critical and Rhetorical Writing in the Beginning Architecture Studio / Dr Andrew R. Tripp -- Refocusing the Interior Lens: Other …
"Progressive Studio Pedagogy provides guidance to educators in all design fields by questioning processes and assumptions about teaching and learning, utilising examples from architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design. Through a series of case studies, this book p…
"Progressive Studio Pedagogy provides guidance to educators in all design fields by questioning processes and assumptions about teaching and learning, utilising examples from architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design. Through a series of case studies, this book p…
