Compulsory Mis-education, and The Community of Scholars
Author: Paul Goodman
Publisher:
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13:
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The Expansion of the Educational System
Author: W.G. Fleming
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1971-12-15
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 1487597002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains a general introduction to the whole series, followed by seven chapters giving most of the quantitative information in compact form. The introduction discusses some current issues and problems in education: the economic value of education to the individual and to society, the effects of automation, the role of the school in social and emotional development, vocational training and physical development, and the relationship between education and social class. The main body of the text describes the quantitative growth of the educational system and is organized into seven topics: characteristics of the population, school enrollment, the proliferation of educational institutions, university enrolment, enrolment in other post-secondary institutions, and the financing of the system. It contains much specialized statistical material including 46 charts and 225 tables, and will be an excellent work of reference.
Transforming Higher Education
Author: Stephen J. Rosow
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012-07-10
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0739131729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe university is being transformed and can be transformed. This doubleness informs this book. 'Transforming' in 'transforming higher education' can be read as adjective, suggesting that higher education is being transformed by the social and political situation in which it is enmeshed. 'Transforming' can also be read as a gerund, implying the critical activity of changing the university, as signaling a creative and political act of radical possibility. The essays in this book address the transformation of higher education and the transformative possibilities of its current conditions. Only by viewing the university as a historical construction can we assess the dangers and opportunities of the new conditions of higher education, and chart a reasonable course for the future. The essays in this book are critical of recent developments in universities and higher education. Most of us come from public universities, and all remain committed to a democratic higher education that we see threatened by recent developments. There is a danger that the combination of economic crisis, market ideology, and global pressures will continue to structure the debate about higher education in ways that freeze out the transformative and politically critical possibilities of the university. Part I of the book examines the historical transformation of the university as it has changed into its current form. Part II examines both the transformation of the university into a neoliberal institution and makes the case for the more political and radical idea of transforming the university in opposition to how it has been transformed in recent years. Part III offers a number of studies aimed at illuminating possibilities for transforming the university in a more progressive, democratic direction.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Education and Labor
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 1662
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDewey's Democracy and Education Revisited
Author: Patrick M. Jenlink
Publisher: R&L Education
Published: 2009-04-16
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 1607091267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDewey's Democracy and Education Revisited focuses on democratic schools/democratic education and the work of teacher and leader practitioners in the new millennium, taking into consideration the complex and dynamic nature of preparing leaders for changing roles in schools amidst the challenges of standards and accountability, the No Child Left Behind Act, licensure/certification issues, increasing diversity, issues of social justice, shifting demographics, and the myriad of social issues that make democratic leadership necessary. The book presents a collection of contemporary discourses that reconsider the relationship of democracy as a political ideology and American ideal (i.e., Dewey's progressivist ideas) and education as the foundation of preparing democratic citizens in America. Jenlink takes the reader into a reflective and critical examination of Dewey's ideas on democratic education, set forth in the classic philosophy text, Democracy and Education. Each chapter draws the reader into a discussion of the salient and relevant points Dewey argued, and juxtaposes Dewey's points with the issues challenging educators today, in particular focusing on the challenge of fostering democratic education and leadership for America's schools.
Free Schools, Free People
Author: Ron Miller
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2002-07-18
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780791454190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first historical account of the free school movement of the 1960s.
Summary of Major Legislative Action of the Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, 92d Congress
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Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 950
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKProgressive Reading Education in America
Author: Patrick Shannon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-06-14
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1351725041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough firsthand accounts of classroom practices, this new book ties 130 years of progressive education to social justice work. Based on their commitments to the principle of the equal moral worth of all people, progressive teachers have challenged the obstacles of schooling that prevent some people from participating as full partners in social life in and out of the classroom and have constructed classroom and social arrangements that enable all to participate as peers in the decisions that influence their lives. Progressive reading education has been and remains key to these ties, commitments, challenges, and constructions. The three goals in this book are to show that there are viable and worthy alternatives to the current version of "doing school"; to provide evidence of how progressive teachers have accommodated expanding notions of social justice across time, taking up issues of economic distribution of resources during the first half of the 20th century, adding the cultural recognition of the civil rights of more groups during the second half, and now, grappling with political representation of groups and individuals as national boundaries become porous; and to build coalitions around social justice work among advocates of differing, but complementary, theories and practices of literacy work. In progressive classrooms from Harlem to Los Angeles and Milwaukee to Fairhope, Alabama, students have used reading in order to make sense of and sense in changing times, working across economic, cultural, and political dimensions of social justice. Over 100 teacher stories invite readers to join the struggle to continue the pursuit of a just democracy in America.
Origins of Mass Communications Research During the American Cold War
Author: Timothy Glander
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1999-12
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1135683220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis critical examination of the origins of mass comm. research from the perspective of an educational historian investigates the educational meaning of the mass media, with the goal of understanding the essential connection between educ. and comm.
