Educar para un mundo cambiante
Educar para un mundo cambiante

Author: David Perkins

Publisher: Ediciones SM España

Published: 2017-05-08

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 8467595930

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¿Qué es lo que merece la pena aprender? es una pregunta imposible, si lo que buscamos es la respuesta perfecta. Pero, meditando bien los criterios y con la sensación de tener una misión valiosa que llevar a cabo, podemos buscar respuestas interesantes con inteligencia.Visualizar lo que podría tener un valor dentro de los contenidos que enseñamos en las escuelas es, sin duda, un acto fundamental de imaginación educativa. Hasta ahora, siempre nos hemos centrado en educar para lo conocido. Sin embargo, apostar por que el mañana se parecerá al ayer no parece muy adecuado. Necesitamos un programa más audaz. Llamémoslo educar para lo desconocido que, lejos de ser una paradoja inabordable, puede resultar atractivo y estimulante.Lograrlo pasa, según David Perkins, por identificar grandes temas de comprensión, grandes preguntas y grandes destrezas, entendiendo grande como esencial, aquello que nos capacita ampliamente durante toda la vida para desenvolvernos bien ante cualquier situación. ¿Puede esta visión darnos quizá la esperanza de que, a través de la educación, podemos acceder a lo desconocido, abordar sus giros e imprevistos, y situarnos en el camino hacia la sabiduría?

Educar en la realidad
Educar en la realidad

Author: Catherine L'Ecuyer

Publisher: Plataforma

Published: 2015-03-19

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 8416256578

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¿Cómo educar en un mundo frenético e hiperexigente? ¿Cómo conseguir que un niño, y luego un adolescente, actúe con ilusión, sea capaz de estar quieto observando con calma lo que le rodea, piense antes de actuar y esté motivado para aprender sin miedo al esfuerzo? Los niños de los últimos veinte años viven en un entorno cada vez más frenético y exigente, que por un lado ha hecho la tarea de educar más compleja, y por otro, los ha alejado de lo esencial. Vemos necesario para su futuro éxito programarlos para un sinfín de actividades que, poco a poco, les están apartando del ocio de siempre, del juego libre, de la naturaleza, del silencio, de la belleza. Su vida se ha convertido en una verdadera carrera para quemar etapas, lo que les aleja cada vez más de su propia naturaleza, de su inocencia, de sus ritmos, de su sentido del misterio. Muchos niños se están perdiendo lo mejor de la vida: descubrir el mundo, adentrarse en la realidad. Un ruido ensordecedor acalla sus preguntas, las estridentes pantallas interrumpen el aprendizaje lento de todo lo maravilloso que hay que descubrir por primera vez.

Educación para mejorar el mundo
Educación para mejorar el mundo

Author: Marc Prensky

Publisher: Ediciones SM

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 6072427618

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En Educar para mejorar el mundo, el autor invita a repensar los propósitos de la educación y el papel del aprendizaje en las sociedades actuales. Prensky reflexiona sobre las limitaciones de considerar al aprendizaje como el objetivo de la educación y nos propone sustituirlo por el desarrollo de la capacidad para mejorar el mundo. Para el autor, el aprendizaje es el medio para conseguirlo. Su ruta de análisis responde preguntas inquietantes para el mundo educativo: ¿los estudiantes deben actuar en el mundo real solo después de concluir susestudios? ¿Cómo integrar en el trabajo escolar sus pasiones y los problemas de su contexto para que los resuelvan? ¿Es necesario que se impartan en el aula todos los contenidos del currículo actual? Si no es así, ¿qué se debe impartir? En esta obra se propone transformar la cultura escolar a partir de cambiar la estructura e implementación del currículo. Su aproximación pospone la discusión de los contenidos de las asignaturas tradicionales y prioriza las áreas de formación que se requerirá dominar para desenvolverse en el futuro: pensamiento efectivo, acción efectiva, relaciones efectivas y consecución de logros. Una obra de lectura obligatoria para todo educador sensible a la importancia de acercar a los estudiantes a lo que realmente los mueve y los apasiona, y con lo que podrían contribuir a mejorar el mundo desde la escuela.

Creating Cultures of Thinking
Creating Cultures of Thinking

Author: Ron Ritchhart

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-02-23

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 111897462X

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Discover why and how schools must become places where thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted As educators, parents, and citizens, we must settle for nothing less than environments that bring out the best in people, take learning to the next level, allow for great discoveries, and propel both the individual and the group forward into a lifetime of learning. This is something all teachers want and all students deserve. In Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools, Ron Ritchhart, author of Making Thinking Visible, explains how creating a culture of thinking is more important to learning than any particular curriculum and he outlines how any school or teacher can accomplish this by leveraging 8 cultural forces: expectations, language, time, modeling, opportunities, routines, interactions, and environment. With the techniques and rich classroom vignettes throughout this book, Ritchhart shows that creating a culture of thinking is not about just adhering to a particular set of practices or a general expectation that people should be involved in thinking. A culture of thinking produces the feelings, energy, and even joy that can propel learning forward and motivate us to do what at times can be hard and challenging mental work.

Education to Better Their World
Education to Better Their World

Author: Marc Prensky

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 0807774944

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In his most visionary book, internationally renowned educator Marc Prensky presents a compelling alternative to how and what we teach our children. Drawing on emerging world trends, he elaborates a comprehensive vision for K–12 education that includes new goals, new means, a new curriculum, a new kind of teaching, and a new use of technology. “Marc Prensky—one of the smartest people working in educational reform today—offers us a lucid, inspiring, optimistic, doable, and crucial blueprint for how we can build a future with the schools children desperately need in our modern, high-risk, highly complex, fast-changing, and imperiled world.” —James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Regents’ Professor, Arizona State University “Marc Prensky was always ahead of his time. Education to better their world continues this trend in spades. This book is a goldmine and a powerful wakeup call that the future is already here—in pockets right now but a harbinger of what is rapidly emerging. Read the book and make yourself part of the future today. As we are finding in our own work, students are agents of change—in pedagogy, in learning environments, and of society itself. Exciting possibilities await!” —Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus, OISE/University of Toronto “Marc Prensky’s answer to the question ‘What is the purpose of education?’—that education should now empower youth to improve their communities and the world—would unleash the energy, creativity, and compassion of students and teachers in ways we have never imagined. We need the better world Prensky envisions and we need it now.” —Milton Chen, The George Lucas Educational Foundation “Prensky offers perhaps the most compelling case and model yet articulated by anyone for today’s globally-empowered children. A must-read book for all educators and anyone who cares about education.” —James Tracey, Head of School, Rocky Hill School, RI “Wow. As a takeaway it is good—very good.” —John Seeley Brown “A great book. Filled with ‘food for thought’, common sense, provocative ideas and fun to read.” —Nieves Segovia, Presidenta, Institucion Educativa SEK (SEK International Schools)

Child Friendly Schools Manual
Child Friendly Schools Manual

Author:

Publisher: UNICEF

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9280643762

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This Child-Friendly Schools (CFS) Manual was developed during three-and-a-half years of continuous work, involving the United Nations Children's Fund education staff and specialists from partner agencies working on quality education. It benefits from fieldwork in 155 countries and territories, evaluations carried out by the Regional Offices and desk reviews conducted by headquarters in New York. The manual is a part of a total resource package that includes an e-learning package for capacity-building in the use of CFS models and a collection of field case studies to illustrate the state of the art in child-friendly schools in a variety of settings.

Disciplined Mind
Disciplined Mind

Author: Howard Gardner

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-01-26

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1982176954

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This brilliant and revolutionary theory of multiple intelligences reexamines the goals of education to support a more educated society for future generations. Howard Gardner’s concept of multiple intelligences has been hailed as perhaps the most profound insight into education since the work of Jerome Bruner, Jean Piaget, and even John Dewey. Here, in The Disciplined Mind, Garner pulls together the threads of his previous works and looks beyond such issues as charters, vouchers, unions, and affirmative action in order to explore the larger questions of what constitutes an educated person and how this can be achieved for all students. Gardner eloquently argues that the purpose of K–12 education should be to enhance students’ deep understanding of the truth (and falsity), beauty (and ugliness), and goodness (and evil) as defined by their various cultures. By exploring the theory of evolution, the music of Mozart, and the lessons of the Holocaust as a set of examples that illuminates the nature of truth, beauty, and morality, The Disciplined Mind envisions how younger generations will rise to the challenges of the future—while preserving the traditional goals of a “humane” education. Gardner’s ultimate goal is the creation of an educated generation that understands the physical, biological, and societal world in their own personal context as well as in a broader world view. But even as Gardner persuasively argues the merits of his approach, he recognizes the difficulty of developing one universal, ideal form of education. In an effort to reconcile conflicting educational viewpoints, he proposes the creation of six different educational pathways that, when taken together, can satisfy people’s concern for student learning and their widely divergent views about knowledge and understanding overall.

Raising Standards for American Education
Raising Standards for American Education

Author: National Council on Education Standards and Testing (U.S.)

Publisher: Department of Education

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13:

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Recommendations by the National Council on Education Standards and Testing (NCEST) are provided concerning whether national standards and a system of assessments are desirable and feasible and how national standards and a system of assessments are to be developed and implemented. The NCEST found that the absence of explicit national standards keyed to world-class levels of performance severely hampers the ability to monitor the nation's progress toward the six national education goals. Without well-defined and demanding standards, American education has gravitated toward "de facto" national minimum expectations, with curricula focusing on low-level reading and arithmetic skills and on small amounts of factual material in other content areas. Most current assessment methods cannot determine if students are acquiring the skills/knowledge they need to prosper in the future. These assessments reinforce the emphasis on low-level skills and processing bits of data rather than on problem solving and critical thinking. It is concluded that high national education standards and a voluntary linked system of assessments are desirable and feasible mechanisms for raising expectations, revitalizing instruction, and rejuvenating education reform efforts for all American schools and students. The NCEST will work toward local commitment to high national expectation for achievement for all students, and toward developing Federal, state, and local policies that ensure high quality resources (instructional materials and well-prepared teachers). Acknowledgments; authorization for the NCEST; public comments; the six national education goals; and reports of the standards, assessment, implementation, English, mathematics, science, history, and geography task forces of the NCEST are appended. (RLC)

A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish
A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish

Author: Mark Davies

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-12

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1134874464

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A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish has been fully revised and updated, including over 500 new entries, making it an invaluable resource for students of Spanish. Based on a new web-based corpus containing more than 2 billion words collected from 21 Spanish-speaking countries, the second edition of A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish provides the most expansive and up-to-date guidelines on Spanish vocabulary. Each entry is accompanied with an illustrative example and full English translation. The Dictionary provides a rich resource for language teaching and curriculum design, while a separate CD version provides the full text in a tab-delimited format ideally suited for use by corpus and computational linguistics. With entries arranged both by frequency and alphabetically, A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way.