This original book makes a moral case for play as an essential role for character development, sparking curiosity, wonder, imagination, and teamwork beyond recess and throughout academia based on both library and school centered research in non-sectarian and faith-based K-12 institutions.
This is a book about the education America owes to its children, why its education system is in poor condition, and what might be done to give that system both energy and quality.
This is a book about the education America owes to its children, why its education system is in poor condition, and what might be done to give that system both energy and quality.
Drawing on the ideas of Rudolf Steiner's pioneering Curative Education course, this book goes back to basics and examines the potential benefits of this unique educational approach in today's classrooms.
Pairing Literary and Informational Texts to Address Social Inequality
Sea of Troubles shows teachers how literature and informational texts can work together to enhance each other and, by extension, enhance students' abilities to critically think and respond to the sea of troubles that pervades society.
Pairing Literary and Informational Texts to Address Social Inequality
Sea of Troubles shows teachers how literature and informational texts can work together to enhance each other and, by extension, enhance students' abilities to critically think and respond to the sea of troubles that pervades society.
The starting point for eliminating the virus of white supremacy ideology from our culture must be in our educational system. This book is intended as a vaccine to help eliminate the damage and to prevent future generations from being infected.
The starting point for eliminating the virus of white supremacy ideology from our culture must be in our educational system. This book is intended as a vaccine to help eliminate the damage and to prevent future generations from being infected.
Using Social-Emotional Learning to Guide School Improvement
The book covers such topics as social-emotional learning (SEL) within the context of programs, standards, usage in school accountability, assessments, equity, strategies, culture, and distance learning.
Using Social-Emotional Learning to Guide School Improvement
The book covers such topics as social-emotional learning (SEL) within the context of programs, standards, usage in school accountability, assessments, equity, strategies, culture, and distance learning.
Acclaimed as a text and professional development tool, this user-friendly resource has now been revised and updated, and offers expanded coverage of collaborative action research (CAR) and participatory action research (PAR). Preservice and inservice educators get crucial step-by-step guidance for conducting classroom- and school-based studies to ......
Acclaimed as a text and professional development tool, this user-friendly resource has now been revised and updated, and offers expanded coverage of collaborative action research (CAR) and participatory action research (PAR). Preservice and inservice educators get crucial step-by-step guidance for conducting classroom- and school-based studies to ......
Anti-intellectualism to Anti-rationalism to Post-truth Era: The Challenges for Higher Education argues that emergence of the post-truth world is evidence that anti-intellectualism, long recognized as a characteristic of American culture, has morphed into anti-rationalism as a surging force in American society that threatens our collective ......
Offers a glimpse into some of the intimate aspects of Rudolf Steiner's inner life, his personal relationships, and significant events that helped to shape the philosopher, seer, and teacher he became.
Traditional and New Paths to Intercultural Competence
This book, in the case study tradition, examined the lived experiences of 12 former high school students who participated in an exchange trip to Argentina, in connection with intercultural competency development.
Traditional and New Paths to Intercultural Competence
This book, in the case study tradition, examined the lived experiences of 12 former high school students who participated in an exchange trip to Argentina, in connection with intercultural competency development.
What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children
Stories about the failures of our educational systems abound, but most of them stop after pointing out the problems. Becoming Brilliant goes beyond complaining to offer solutions that parents can apply right now. Authors Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek provide a science-based framework for how we should be educating children in ......
Rudolf Steiner's Challenge to the Younger Generation
Shows how the stream of generations had been interrupted by eighteenth-century intellectualism, emphasizing that they would have to reject the general acceptance of impersonal social routine, dead intellectual thinking, and personal and social egoism.
