The Rise of the Modern Educational System

The Rise of the Modern Educational System
Author: Detlef Müller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1989-11-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780521366854

A pioneering socio-historical analysis of change and development in secondary education in England, France, and Germany during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum in Secondary Schools

Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum in Secondary Schools
Author: Steven Hutchinson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 330
Release:
Genre: High school teaching
ISBN: 1134508948

The articles which make up this reader provide both overview and analysis of the central issues in secondary education. Focused closely upon what it means to teach and learn in the modern secondary classroom, this book provides invaluable insight into the development of secondary education today. It is an ideal introduction to the task of teachers in secondary schools. Issues covered in the book include:the new agenda around teaching and learning effective pedagogy the teacher-student relationship teaching, learning and the digital agegrouping by ability managing the cu.

Anarchist Education and the Modern School

Anarchist Education and the Modern School
Author: Francisco Ferrer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781629635095

Francisco Ferrer navigated a tempestuous world of anarchist assassins, radical republican conspirators, anticlerical rioters, and freethinking educators to establish the legendary Escuela Moderna and the Modern School movement that his martyrdom propelled around the globe. This is the first historical reader to gather together his writings on rationalist education, revolutionary violence, and the general strike (most translated into English for the first time) and put them into conversation with the letters, speeches, and articles of his comrades, collaborators, and critics.

10 Things Schools Get Wrong (And How We Can Get Them Right)

10 Things Schools Get Wrong (And How We Can Get Them Right)
Author: David Bott
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2020-11-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1913808831

What counterintuitive lessons can we learn from the meteoric rise of Mindset Theory in education? Why have computers so overwhelmingly failed to become the academic panacea many expected them to be? How can the simple act of assigning grades drive student narcissism and damage teacher professionalism? In this book, brain and behavioural research is combined with respected philosophy in order to place ten widely accepted yet rarely examined aspects of education under the microscope. - Teacher Expertise - Evidence-Based Practice - Grading - Homework - Mindset - 21st Century Skills - Computers - Rewards - Daily Organization - Function This book aims to inspire teachers, leaders, and parents to question many commonly held beliefs and empower them to re-think the role of modern schooling.