Education - Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects

This social and emotional learning (SEL) workbook for first grade students provides daily activities to learn about emotions, actions, relationships, and decision making.180 Days(TM) Social-Emotional Learning for First GRade Uses daily activities to promote students' self-awareness, analyze relationships, discover diverse perspectives, and apply what...

This social and emotional learning (SEL) workbook for second grade students provides daily activities to learn about emotions, actions, relationships, and decision making.180 Days(TM) Social-Emotional Learning for Second Grade Uses daily activities to promote students' self-awareness, analyze relationships, discover diverse perspectives, and apply what...

This is a delightful little gift book for people of all ages. Through text and charming illustrations the meaning of life is explained and your place in it. The story explains God, the big bang, miracles and much much more. This book is an...

Academia is not, by and large, a kind place. Individualism and competition are what count. But without kindness at its core, Catherine Denial suggests, higher education fails students and instructors-and its mission-in critical ways.Part manifesto, part teaching memoir, part how-to guide, A Pedagogy of...

When the pursuit of knowledge is eclipsed by money and power, what remains of higher learning?What is a university for? Is it a sanctuary for disciplined study, or has it become something else entirely? In After the University, Chad Wellmon traces the long and...

Your work matters. You matter more. You know you make a difference. Your talent and expertise come together in your work to make an important contribution to the world. But your dedication shouldn't mean sacrificing all the other parts of yourself. Inspired by principles...

Featuring current information and challenging perspectives on the latest issues and forces shaping the American educational system, Joel Spring introduces readers to the historical, political, social, and legal foundations of education and to the profession of teaching in the United States.Author: Joel SpringPublisher: RoutledgePublished:...

An unexpected portrait of the first year of school for America's youngest learners. When we think of kindergarten, many might imagine joyous free play, and a tangle of trucks, dress-up clothes, and blocks, as five-year-olds explore their vivid imaginations and budding social skills. Others...

A witty and provocative treatise on the financial policies we'll need to make our public schools work for all childrenFrom the anti-CRT panic to efforts to divert tax dollars to charter schools, the right-wing attack on education has cut deep. In response, millions of...

What is a good education? What is it for? To answer these questions, Stratford Caldecott shines a fresh light on the three arts of language, in a marvelous recasting of the Trivium whereby Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric are explored as Remembering, Thinking, and Communicating....

What is a good education? What is it for? To answer these questions, Stratford Caldecott shines a fresh light on the three arts of language, in a marvelous recasting of the Trivium whereby Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric are explored as Remembering, Thinking, and Communicating....

Welcome to Typical University, where Cinderella is an adjunct, the Tortoise and the Hare share a tenure line, Bacchus runs the study abroad office, and everyone is as exhausted and beleaguered as the typical college employee. At Typical, Rumpelstiltskin will not be helpful with...

Throughout hooks' powerful life she envisioned, described, and enacted a radical, engaged pedagogy and praxis rooted in love, rather than power, while simultaneously modeling transgressive modes of being in the world. bell hooks' Radical Pedagogy is the first sustained collection of teachings and reflections...

While efforts to achieve equity in education are prominent in school districts across this country, the effective implementation that results in meaningful change remains elusive. Even with access to compelling theories and approaches such as multicultural education, culturally responsive teaching, culturally relevant instruction, culturally...

Discover the secret to flourishing in an age of division: belonging. In a world filled with discord and loneliness, finding harmony and happiness can be difficult. But what if the key to unlocking our potential lies in this deceptively simple concept? Belonging is the...

"Cat helps students bridge the gap between happiness and academic success by making both the practice of joy and the practice of writing a daily activity." Shawn Achor, New York Times bestselling author of Before Happiness and The Happiness Advantage.Secondary Teachers and Homeschooling Parents:...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - This inspiring meditation on kindness from the author of Lincoln in the Bardo is based on his popular commencement address.Three months after George Saunders gave a graduation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech was posted on...

More than ever, students are disengaging from school and looking for connection and purpose in their lives, something that educators often struggle to offer in the traditional school system. In response to this changing landscape, Cinde Lock and Anneke Lee offer the CAP Method...

Arthur Schopenhauer's most respected works, wherein the philosopher shares his views on life and what he believes to be follies of human behavior. In The Counsels and Maxims he discusses how to order our lives to obtain the greatest amount of pleasure and success;...

An insightful guide to the practice, teaching, and history of critical thinking--from Aristotle and Plato to Thomas Dewey--for teachers, students, and anyone looking to hone their critical thinking skills. Critical thinking is regularly cited as an essential 21st century skill, the key to success...