Education, Information, and Transformation
Education, Information, and Transformation

Author: Jeffrey Kane

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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Designed to spark educators to reflect on the nature of human thinking and the academic goals of education, this collection of essays -- by scholars from widely disparate orientations and disciplines -- explores and explains the human cognitive capacities that transcend computation and substantially affect our judgment and action. Asks the critical questions -- Is there more to thinking than information processing?, What more is there?, and What difference does it make to education? Addresses numerous critical issues -- from educational standards, to the environmental/social and moral dimensions, to the role of the senses in human development. Demonstrates how to identify new intelligences and identifies both Naturalist and Existential Intelligences. Explores the question of how science may address questions of spirituality. Introduces and provides unique insight into cultural educational issues. Considers different educational levels to demonstrate the practical meanings of the various theoretical positions. For prospective and practicing educational professionals.

Aims of Education
Aims of Education

Author: Alfred North Whitehead

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0029351804

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

The Order of Learning
The Order of Learning

Author: Edward Albert Shils

Publisher: Transaction Publishers

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9781560002987

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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.

Science, Curriculum, and Liberal Education
Science, Curriculum, and Liberal Education

Author: Joseph J. Schwab

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780226741871

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What is a liberal education and what part can science play in it? How should we think about the task of developing a curriculum? How should educational research conceive of its goals? Joseph Schwab's essays on these questions have influenced education internationally for more than twenty-five years. Schwab participated in what Daniel Bell has described as the "most thoroughgoing experiment in general education in any college in the United States," the College of the University of Chicago during the thirties, forties, and fifties. He played a central role in the curriculum reform movement of the sixties, and his extraordinary command of science, the philosophy of science, and traditional and modern views of liberal education found expression in these exceptionally thoughtful essays.

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

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780325074405

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"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.

A Literary Education
A Literary Education

Author: Joseph Epstein

Publisher: Axios Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781604190786

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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.

Seeking the Significance of Music Education
Seeking the Significance of Music Education

Author: Bennett Reimer

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2009-06-16

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1607092379

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Noted music educator Bennett Reimer has selected 24 of his previously published articles from a variety of professional journals spanning the past 50 years. During that time, he's tackled: -generating core values for the field of music education; -the core in larger societal and educational contexts; -what to teach and how to teach it effectively; -how we need to educate our teachers; -the role of research in our profession; and -how to improve our future status. Reimer precedes each essay with background reflections and his position, both professional and personal, on effectively addressing the issue at hand. The opening 'Letter to the Reader' presents a valuable overview based on his deeply grounded viewpoint. The entire music education profession will benefit from Reimer's perspective on past, present, and future concerns central to the functioning of music education in Seeking the Significance of Music Education: Essays and Reflections.

Essays in the History of Irish Education
Essays in the History of Irish Education

Author: Brendan Walsh

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-09-29

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1137514825

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This book provides a complete overview of the development of education in Ireland including the complex issue of how religion can coexist with education and how a national identity can be aided through Irish language teaching. It also offers a comprehensive exploration of the development, issues, challenges and future of education in Ireland within the context of historical studies.

Re-Imagining Education
Re-Imagining Education

Author: Slattery

Publisher:

Published: 2019-03-16

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9781950186051

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In this 2019 reissued collection of eighteen essays, originally inspired by the soul-deadening mandates of the "No Child Left Behind" era, Dennis Patrick Slattery and Jennifer Leigh Selig bring together master teachers who have served in the classroom for fifteen or more years, spanning elementary, high school, undergraduate, graduate, and adult education across multiple disciplines, to share their reflections on reviving the soul of learning.While the essays are historically tethered to a moment in time, one that witnesses a crisis in learning, the intention of the volume is not merely to react and critique, but rather, to imagine the present as an occasion to revive, revision, and renew the enchantment of learning.One might ask: what timeless and perennial qualities of excellence are germane to teaching and learning as they both serve the life of the imagination and further the cultivation of the soul? The answer rests in the essays themselves, repositories of wisdom by teachers with decades of experience in the classroom, whose only mandate was to speak their own truths that have informed thousands of learners young and old.