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John Taylor Gatto's radical treatise on public education, a New Society Publishers bestseller for 25 years, continues to advocate for the unshackling of children and learning from formal schooling. Now, in an ever-more-rapidly changing world with an explosion of alternative routes to learning, it's poised to continue to shake the world of institutional education for many more years.
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An illuminating examination of the deterioration of the current school system in America, backed by detailed research and shocking statistics. An indictment of the American educational system criticizes the fact that the system has discarded the traditional goals of transmitting knowledge and fostering cognitive skills in favor of building self-esteem and promoting social harmony.--
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Though he did not coin the phrase "Progressive Education", American philosopher and psychologist, John Dewey, has historically been associated with this modern educational method. In these two works, "The School and Society" and "The Child and Curriculum", Dewey lays out his philosophies of pragmatism, educational reform, and his advocacy of democracy. In a time when education focused primarily on rote memorization and passive acquisition of knowledge,...
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En el mundo de lo social, es imprescindible la creación de nuevos proyectos, enfocados a mejorar el bienestar y la calidad de vida de las personas.
Ante la actual crisis económica que estamos atravesando, donde, se hace latente una de sus consecuencias más claras y devastadoras, como es la falta o ausencia de empleo, nace, a modo de ejemplo, esta presentación de proyectos, con el objetivo de inspirar y animar a los profesionales de lo social...
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"The former dean of Yale Law School surveys the full sweep of recent campus controversies to show how these disputes threaten the best of America's intellectual traditions--including democracy itself. In his tenure at Yale, Anthony Kronman has watched students march across campus to protest the names of buildings and seen colleagues resign over emails about Halloween costumes. He is no stranger to recent confrontations at American universities. But...
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"In Reimagining the Classroom: Creating New Learning Spaces and Connecting with the World, renowned educator Dr. Theodore Richards identifies the flaws and fissures in traditional approaches to teaching and learning, inspiring many to consider radical change. Dr. Richards takes a critical look at our education and reveals how impoverished our lives--and the lives of our children--have become. Our children are the pathway to reimagining our world and...
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The United States is known as a world leader in innovation, boasting brilliant thinkers and trendsetting companies, but that status is at grave risk. American children are well outside the top-ten international student rankings in reading, science, and math; those rankings--not to mention the nation's position of leadership on everything from the economy to the military to issues of moral authority--will continue to plummet unless we take dramatic...
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Harvard education expert Tony Wagner explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apple’s first iPhone, and Jodie Wu, who founded a company that builds bicycle-powered maize shellers in Tanzania, Wagner reveals how the adults in their lives nurtured their creativity and sparked their...
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©2008
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In the age of the Internet, we educate people much as we did during the Industrial Revolution. We educate them for a world that no longer exists, instilling values antithetical to those of a free, 21st century democracy. Worst of all, too many schools extinguish the very creativity and joy they ought to nourish. In Turning Learning Right Side Up, legendary systems scientist Dr. Russell Ackoff and "in-the-trenches" education innovator Daniel Greenberg...
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Jeff Selingo, journalist and editor-in-chief of the Chronicle for Higher Education, argues that colleges can no longer sell a four-year degree as the ticket to success in life. College (Un)Bound exposes the dire pitfalls in the current state of higher education for anyone concerned with the intellectual and financial future of America.
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A bestselling business journalist critiques the top-down approach of popular education reforms and profiles the unexpected success of schools embracing a nimbler, more democratic entrepreneurialism. In an entirely fresh take on school reform, business journalist and bestselling author Andrea Gabor argues that Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and other leaders of the prevailing education-reform movement have borrowed all the wrong lessons from the business world....
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In Deeper Learning, education strategist Monica R. Martinex and sociologist Dennis McGrath take us inside eight schools that have set out to transform the experience of learning. In these schools, we meet teachers and students who show us just what "Deeper Learning" looks like. The eight diverse schools featured are: MC2 STEM High School in Cleveland, Ohio, Impact Academy of Arts & Technology in Hayward, California, Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia,...
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Conectar Igualdad distribuye netbooks entre los alumnos y docentes de las escuelas públicas de nivel secundario y de educación especial y de los institutos de formación docente de gestión estatal de todo el país. El propósito consiste en recuperar y valorizar la escuela pública, así como reducir las brechas digitales, educativas y sociales en el país.
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La presente publicación tiene como centro de estudio la experiencia educativa en la Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México (UACM), en particular, lo relativo al ciclo básico del Colegio de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales. La creación de esta Universidad (2001) representó una alternativa para atender el alto porcentaje de aspirantes que no eran aceptados en las universidades públicas como la UNAM, la UAM y otras. Además, fue concebida...
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