Without Walls
Without Walls

Author: Milton Toubkin

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1788035275

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Without Walls is Milton’s Toubkin’s unique memoir, which begins with an impoverished, but generally happy, early childhood in South Africa and ends with Milton’s retirement. Like most people, Milton faced many difficulties throughout his life, ranging from the divorce of his parents, his mother’s suicide attempt and the death of his daughter at the age of just nineteen. But Without Walls also records the happiest moments of the author’s life, including meeting and marrying his wife Marj, becoming a father to two children and becoming a grandfather. The book also explores the huge impact that Milton had on the international educational system in London as a result of his founding Southbank International School with his colleagues. Milton describes the school’s modest beginnings, surviving with little money and no external support, before growing to become an outstanding educational institution with a unique programme. The story of this ‘school without walls’ forms a significant part of Milton’s life story. Inspired by The School without Walls by John Bremer and Michael von Moschzisker and Peter Godwin’s A White Boy in Africa, Without Walls is a unique biography that will appeal to readers interested in education, as well as those that enjoy memoirs. It will also be enjoyed by former pupils and associates of Southbank International School.

The Stone Trumpet
The Stone Trumpet

Author: Richard A. Gibboney

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1994-07-22

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780791420102

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This is a book about school reform. Fundamental school reform: reforms that cultivate intelligence and predispose us to the democratic virtues.

Alternative Schools
Alternative Schools

Author: Brenda Edgerton Conley

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2002-11-22

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1576074412

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An examination of the growth and development of alternative schools in American society and their role in the public school environment. In Alternative Schools: A Reference Handbook, educator Brenda Edgerton Conley surveys the emerging alternatives to our conventional educational system—a system that is not only costly, but ineffective for many children. In a resource aimed at a broad audience—school administrators, politicians, and, most important, parents—Conley offers both a historical and a present-day perspective on alternative educational programs. What sets the alternative education movement apart, she argues, is its acknowledgment that we all learn differently. That knowledge has given rise to an explosion of exciting alternatives—from open schools to home schooling, from charter schools to church schools. These alternative schools are smaller and less bureaucratic, more responsive to the community, and more receptive to change.

Alternative Learning Environments
Alternative Learning Environments

Author: Gary J. Coates

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-09-22

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 100382529X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Originally published in 1974, this volume presents viable alternatives to traditional attitudes and practices in environmental design and education. It contains 29 selections that reflect the thought and actions of leaders from many diverse disciplines and professions. Architects, landscape architects, urban planners, teachers and administrators, psychologists and social theorists address themselves to controversial and important issues facing our post-industrial society. The range of subjects explored in the volume is far-reaching: Environmental education in which the art of planning and designing itself becomes the curriculum Advocacy planning and community participation in both educational and design decision making Alternative educational institutions, ranging from community-centered schools and mobile schools to non-school learning networks that distribute the learning activity throughout the fabric of the city and the lifetime of the learner New developments in systematic design methods and evaluation research that promise to make the design process more public and responsive to the user-client

Schools on Trial
Schools on Trial

Author: Nikhil Goyal

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2017-01-10

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1101910224

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A devastating critique of the American way of education and a hopeful blueprint for change which can unlock the creativity and joy of learning inherent in all students. In this book Nikhil Goyal—a journalist and activist, whom The Washington Post has dubbed a “future education secretary” and Forbes has named to its 30 Under 30 list—both offers a scathing indictment of our teach-to-the-test-while-killing-the-spirit educational assembly line and maps out a path for all of our schools to harness children’s natural aptitude for learning by creating an atmosphere conducive to freedom and creativity. He prescribes an inspiring educational future that is thoroughly democratic and experiential, and one that utilizes the entire community as a classroom.

Report
Report

Author: United States. Congress. House

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 2248

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK