Aims of Education

Aims of Education
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1967
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0029351804

Presents the texts of a series of lectures delivered between 1912 and 1928 on the purposes and practice of education.

A Literary Education

A Literary Education
Author: Joseph Epstein
Publisher: Axios Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781604190786

A respected essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic discusses the pleasure, often forgotten in the modern day, of reading something for no purpose whatsoever in his latest collection of writings.

The Order of Learning

The Order of Learning
Author: Edward Albert Shils
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781560002987

To understand the modern university and the contemporary crisis of higher education we must consider its central issues. The Order of Learning thoughtfully considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on some of the main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education to government, academic freedom, the responsibilities of the academic profession, among others. Edward Shils believes that higher education has a central role in modern society, and that the distractions of the recent past, including undue pressures from government, the fads of some students and faculty, and increasing involvement of the post-secondary education with day-to-day questions, have damaged higher education by deflecting it from its essential commitment to teaching, learning, and research. The Order of Learning will be of great interest to educators and students alike, as well as those interested in the future of higher education in the United States.

Schooling Beyond Measure and Other Unorthodox Essays about Education

Schooling Beyond Measure and Other Unorthodox Essays about Education
Author: Alfie Kohn
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780325074405

"Kohn's analytical style ... is brought to bear on big-picture policy issues as well as small-scale classroom interactions. He looks carefully at research about homework, play, the supposed benefits of practice, parent involvement in education, and summer learning loss - discovering in each case what we've been led to believe doesn't always match what the studies actually say. Kohn actually challenges us to reconsider the goals that underlie our methods, to explore the often troubling values that inform talk about everything from the disproportionate enthusiasm for STEM subjects to claims made for "effective" teaching strategies."--Back cover.

Learning and Other Essays

Learning and Other Essays
Author: John Jay Chapman
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2023-09-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3368927116

Reproduction of the original.

"The Having of Wonderful Ideas" & Other Essays on Teaching & Learning

Author: Eleanor Ruth Duckworth
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 179
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780807735138

The revised Third Edition of this indispensable classic on Piaget and teaching features a new introduction, a new chapter on critical exploration in the classroom, and a renewed belief in the need to educate children about peace and social justice.

On Privilege, Fraudulence, and Teaching As Learning

On Privilege, Fraudulence, and Teaching As Learning
Author: Peggy McIntosh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2019-07-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351133780

From one of the world’s leading voices on white privilege and anti-racism work comes this collection of essays on complexities of privilege and power. Each of the four parts illustrates Peggy McIntosh’s practice of combining personal and systemic understandings to focus on power in unusual ways. Part I includes McIntosh’s classic and influential essays on privilege, or systems of unearned advantage that correspond to systems of oppression. Part II helps readers to understand that feelings of fraudulence may be imposed by our hierarchical cultures rather than by any actual weakness or personal shortcomings. Part III presents McIntosh‘s Interactive Phase Theory, highlighting five different world views, or attitudes about power, that affect school curriculum, cultural values, and decisions on taking action. The book concludes with powerful insights from SEED, a peer-led teacher development project that enables individuals and institutions to work collectively toward equity and social justice. This book is the culmination of forty years of McIntosh’s intellectual and organizational work.

On Difficulty

On Difficulty
Author: George Steiner
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2013-04-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1480411906

DIVA distinguished collection of essays on language, literature, and philosophy from acclaimed scholar and critic George Steiner On Difficulty is as provocative and relevant today as when its essays were first published. Ranging from critical topics such as the understanding of language to the meaning of meaning, inward speech to the relationship between erotic sensibility and linguistic convention, these eight essays posit myriad topics for exploration and dialogue. George Steiner deals with considerations that are simultaneously literary and philosophical, exploring themes of linguistic privacy and the changing technical, physiological, and social statuses of the act of reading./div

Reimagining Education

Reimagining Education
Author: Dennis Patrick Slattery
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781882670635

In this collection of essays, Dennis Patrick Slattery and Jennifer Leigh Selig bring together eighteen master teachers"from elementary, high school, undergraduate, graduate, adult education, and across many disciplines"to share their reflections on reviving, revisioning, and renewing the soul of learning. What timeless and perennial qualities of excellence are germane to teaching and learning, both of which serve the life of imagination and the further cultivation of the soul? The answers rest in these essays, which are repositories of the wisdom of teachers with decades of experience in the classroom, whose only mandate in contributing to this volume was to speak their own truths, which have informed thousands of learners young and old.