Education - Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects

Publishing the selected works of Kim Il-Sung on education is a controversial move in the United States. In fact, there's almost a proportional relationship between the demonization of the DPRK and the level of ignorance one has about the state, the country, its government,...

An essential roadmap for anyone serious about unique transformational leadership in educationIn Super Ownership: How Superintendents Can Elevate K-12 Systems, author John Barry distills several decades of leadership wisdom drawn from his distinguished career spanning the United States Air Force, public education, and nonprofit...

Ten years ago, bell hooks astonished readers with Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Now comes Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope - a powerful, visionary work that will enrich our teaching and our lives. Combining critical thinking about education with...

Teaching has never been more demanding and difficult. But neither students nor teachers need fixing. What's needed are dignity-centered classrooms.Through a compelling gardening analogy, Teaching with Dignity shows educators how to create dignity-centered classrooms by focusing less on eliminating weeds and more on cultivating...

Learn how you can succeed with the students who need you most in ways you never thought possible.In this thought-provoking book, renowned educator and learning expert Eric Jensen takes his most personal, profound look yet at how poverty and inequity hurt students and their...

Creating better outcomes for your students sometimes means you have to challenge the odds. Academics and standardized assessments aren't the solution. You need to educate both their hearts and minds.Strengthen your students' resilience, spark their curiosity for learning, and encourage future success in college,...

One of the autism community's most beloved classics, Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew has informed, delighted, and guided millions of families and professionals the world over since its first edition was published in 2005. A child's voice leads into each...

Allow your children to experience the adventure, freedom, and wonder of childhood with this practical guide that provides all the information, inspiration, and advice you need for creating a modern, quality homeschool education.Inspired by the spirit of Henry David Thoreau--"All good things are wild...

A landmark, revelatory history of admissions from 1900 to today--and how it shaped a nation The competition for a spot in the Ivy League--widely considered the ticket to success--is fierce and getting fiercer. But the admissions policies of elite universities have long been both...

"Dr. Leonard Sax's The Collapse of Parenting should be required reading for all parents."―Dr. Nancy Kehoe, author of Wrestling with Our Inner Angels In The Collapse of Parenting, internationally acclaimed author Leonard Sax argues that rising levels of depression and anxiety among young people...

This book, originally presented as a paper to the Second World Conference on Muslim Education in 1980, for the first time in contemporary Islamic thinking and in a clear and coherent manner, elaborates new and originally conceived ideas and definitions. Key concepts such as...

Never before have public school students been so poorly educated. On national exams, almost 40 percent of fourth graders are reading at "below basic" levels, and in international contests in math and science, our seventeen-year-olds score near the bottom.In a shocking expose of the...

America's Founders placed great confidence in schools, which they believed would teach young people to understand our political system and to engage in reasoned political debate as adults. Yet today, when virtually all Americans graduate from high school, we remain stunningly ignorant of history...

The surprising two-hundred-year history of diversity in education, commerce, and science from the scholar the New Yorker dubbed America's "diversity detective" As a war on diversity upends government, corporate, and education policies, the history of the idea of diversity has never been more important....

It's time for a whole new way of doing school People are born systems-thinkers. Education has the power to encourage our innate connection with the complex world, yet instead our schools focus on creating a workforce educated just enough to feed the capitalist pipeline....

This popular book covers the most important ethical issues in contemporary schooling.Written in a style that speaks directly to today's teacher, The Ethics of Teaching, Fifth Edition uses realistic case studies of day-to-day ethical dilemmas. The book covers such topics as: punishment and due...

Bring out the best in your students--and yourself. In The Fostering Resilience Workbook, Elementary Edition, Kristin Van Marter Souers, Keith Orchard, and Pete Hall--a mental-health clinician, social worker, and veteran principal, respectively--draw on research and their extensive experience to help elementary-level educators create supportive,...

Explore the power of play-based culturally relevant curriculum in early childhood classrooms! This teacher resource provides practical strategies that create playful learning opportunities for diverse students. From authors Nadia Kenisha Bynoe and Angelique Thompson, this book serves as a comprehensive guide to using play-based...

From the father of modern Italian children's literature, this is one of the great works about the imagination and how stories are made--featuring radiant illustrations from Matthew Forsythe and a refreshed translation from Jack Zipes. "Holds great value for the adults who teach kids...

The Hidden Lives of Learners takes the reader deep into the hitherto undiscovered world of the learner. It explores the three worlds which together shape a student's learning - the public world of the teacher, the highly influential world of peers, and the student's...