SUNY series, The Philosophy of Education – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien SUNY series, The Philosophy of Education. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
26 produkter
Pedagogy, Printing and Protestantism
The Discourse on Childhood
Av Carmen Luke
Häftad, 1989
365 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Using Foucault's history of discourse, this book examines the relationship between the invention of the printing press and the evolution of concepts regarding childhood and schooling. It is an interdisciplinary study of schooling, childhood, literacy, and protestantism in 16th-century Germany. Luke …
Moral Collapse of the University
Professionalism, Purity, and Alienation
Häftad, 1990
474 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Education, Cultural Myths, and the Ecological Crisis
Toward Deep Changes
Av C. A. Bowers
Häftad, 1992
450 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book is an examination of how the educational process perpetuates cultural myths contributing to the ecological crisis. In addressing the cultural and educational dimensions of the ecological crisis, the book illuminates educational issues associated with the hidden nature of culture, …
Performance versus Results
A Critique of Values in Contemporary Sport
Häftad, 1993
483 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This study examines the consequences of cultural development on the emergence of contemporary sport. The current preoccupation with statistics and reductionist theories has objectified athletic performance to the extent that the scoreboard identifies excellence. Gibson offers an alternative …
Classroom in Conflict
Teaching Controversial Subjects in a Diverse Society
Häftad, 1994
450 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book transcends recent debates about political correctness to address the underlying problems of teaching controversial subjects in the college and university history classroom. The author criticizes both sides of the debate, rejecting, on the one hand, calls for a uniform, chronological …
Educational Conversation
Closing the Gap
Av Jim Garrison, Anthony G. Rud Jr.
Häftad, 1995
442 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Discusses topics normally excluded from the current educational conversation such as soul, authority, irony, memory, style, luck, privacy, power, and hospitality.This book brings together a distinguished group of philosophers of education dealing with important thought often neglected: ideas and …
Discipleship or Pilgrimage?
The Educator's Quest for Philosophy
Inbunden, 1995
1473 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This interpretive history and critique of educational philosophy offers a reexamination and reconstruction of John Dewey's vision.Discipleship or Pilgrimage? is an interpretive history of the field of educational philosophy-what it's been, where it is now, and what it ought to be. Implicit in …
Discipleship or Pilgrimage?
The Educator's Quest for Philosophy
Häftad, 1995
450 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This interpretive history and critique of educational philosophy offers a reexamination and reconstruction of John Dewey's vision.Discipleship or Pilgrimage? is an interpretive history of the field of educational philosophy-what it's been, where it is now, and what it ought to be. Implicit in …
John Dewey
Rethinking Our Time
Häftad, 1997
455 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A concise, eminently readable introduction to the thought of America's most prominent philosopher.CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic BooksWritten in a manner accessible to non-specialists, this book provides an introduction to all areas central to John Dewey's philosophy: aesthetics, social and …
Imitation and Education
A Philosophical Inquiry into Learning by Example
Häftad, 2009
347 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Brings together current research in philosophy, cognitive science, and education to uncover and criticize the traditional assumptions of how and why we should learn through imitation.Imitation and Education provides an in-depth reassessment of learning by example that places imitation in a larger …
Crusade for Democracy
Progressive Education at the Crossroads
Inbunden, 2015
1550 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Tells the fascinating story of the Progressive Education movement of the 1930s and 1940s.Attacks on public schools and efforts to impose nationalizing "reforms" are no less threatening today than they were during the era of progressive education under the conditions that gave rise to the John Dewey …
Legacy of Learning
A History of Western Education
Häftad, 1991
424 kr
Tillfälligt slut
A Legacy of Learning examines the principal periods in the history of European and American education, beginning in ancient Greece and ending in twentieth-century America. It is a superior textbook for courses in the history of western education, tightly organized to cover the territory while …
Teacher as Expert
A Theoretical and Historical Examination
Häftad, 1991
383 kr
Tillfälligt slut
At a time of increasing pressure for teachers to become more professional and more technically competent, this book examines in a critical fashion whether teachers should be considered experts. Written in straightforward and accessible prose, Welker examines the concept of expertise through the …
To Be One of Us
Cultural Conflict, Creative Democracy, and Education
Häftad, 1993
342 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In the context of the growing debate over the relationship between humanities education and the future of liberal democracy, To Be One of Us surveys in dialectical fashion several contemporary humanist thinkers, and analyzes their diverse philosophical positions in relation to John Dewey's claim …
Classroom in Conflict
Teaching Controversial Subjects in a Diverse Society
Inbunden, 1994
1080 kr
Tillfälligt slut
This book transcends recent debates about political correctness to address the underlying problems of teaching controversial subjects in the college and university history classroom. The author criticizes both sides of the debate, rejecting, on the one hand, calls for a uniform, chronological …
Educational Conversation
Closing the Gap
Av Jim Garrison, Anthony G. Rud Jr.
Inbunden, 1995
1057 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Discusses topics normally excluded from the current educational conversation such as soul, authority, irony, memory, style, luck, privacy, power, and hospitality.This book brings together a distinguished group of philosophers of education dealing with important thought often neglected: ideas and …
Art, Alienation, and the Humanities
A Critical Engagement with Herbert Marcuse
Häftad, 2000
414 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Illustrates how Marcuse's theory sheds new light on current debates in both education and society involving issues of multiculturalism, postmodernism, civic education, the "culture wars," critical thinking, and critical literacy.Winner of the 2002 American Educational Studies Association's Critics' …
Grappling with the Good
Talking about Religion and Morality in Public Schools
Inbunden, 2006
1080 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Asks whether public schools can and should help students discuss moral disagreements, even when religion is involved.2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Weaving together history, philosophy, and curriculum, Grappling with the Good offers a vision of public education in which students learn to …
Grappling with the Good
Talking about Religion and Morality in Public Schools
Häftad, 2006
375 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Asks whether public schools can and should help students discuss moral disagreements, even when religion is involved.2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Weaving together history, philosophy, and curriculum, Grappling with the Good offers a vision of public education in which students learn to …
Inquiry and Education
John Dewey and the Quest for Democracy
Inbunden, 2006
1080 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Provides a central role for Dewey's talk of education and how it fits into his overall philosophy.Inquiry and Education offers a lucid and challenging interpretation of John Dewey, his critics, and his supporters. Thematically organized, the book focuses on four of Dewey's preeminent …
Inquiry and Education
John Dewey and the Quest for Democracy
Häftad, 2006
390 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Provides a central role for Dewey's talk of education and how it fits into his overall philosophy.Inquiry and Education offers a lucid and challenging interpretation of John Dewey, his critics, and his supporters. Thematically organized, the book focuses on four of Dewey's preeminent …
Democratic Education Stretched Thin
How Complexity Challenges a Liberal Ideal
Inbunden, 2007
1080 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Argues that the complexity of our pluralistic social world demands an enriched conception of democratic education.Is a democratic education promoting the ideals of human equality and individual liberty still tenable in a postmodern world of increasingly diverse and competing interests? Drawing on …
Democratic Education Stretched Thin
How Complexity Challenges a Liberal Ideal
Häftad, 2007
390 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Argues that the complexity of our pluralistic social world demands an enriched conception of democratic education.Is a democratic education promoting the ideals of human equality and individual liberty still tenable in a postmodern world of increasingly diverse and competing interests? Drawing on …
Imitation and Education
A Philosophical Inquiry into Learning by Example
Inbunden, 2008
1080 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Brings together current research in philosophy, cognitive science, and education to uncover and criticize the traditional assumptions of how and why we should learn through imitation.Imitation and Education provides an in-depth reassessment of learning by example that places imitation in a larger …
George S. Counts and Charles A. Beard
Collaborators for Change
Inbunden, 1989
1057 kr
Tillfälligt slut
A thoughtful and thought-provoking conversation, the Counts-Beard correspondence illuminates the issues facing American education today. The correspondence explores the collaboration between them as Counts impressed upon the teachers of the nation the importance of interpreting the present in the …
Crusade for Democracy
Progressive Education at the Crossroads
Häftad, 2015
383 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Tells the fascinating story of the Progressive Education movement of the 1930s and 1940s.Attacks on public schools and efforts to impose nationalizing "reforms" are no less threatening today than they were during the era of progressive education under the conditions that gave rise to the John Dewey …
