Feel-Bad Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feel-Bad Education write by Alfie Kohn. This book was released on 2011-04-05. Feel-Bad Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mind-opening writing on what kids need from school, from one of education’s most outspoken voices Arguing that our schools are currently in the grip of a “cult of rigor”—a confusion of harder with better that threatens to banish both joy and meaningful intellectual inquiry from our classrooms—Alfie Kohn issues a stirring call to rethink our priorities and reconsider our practices. Kohn’s latest wide-ranging collection of writings will add to his reputation as one of the most incisive thinkers in the field, who questions the assumptions too often taken for granted in discussions about education and human behavior. In nineteen recently published essays—and in a substantive introduction, new for this volume—Kohn repeatedly invites us to think more deeply about the conventional wisdom. Is self-discipline always desirable? he asks, citing surprising evidence to the contrary. Does academic cheating necessarily indicate a moral failing? Might inspirational posters commonly found on school walls (“Reach for the stars!”) reflect disturbing assumptions about children? Could the use of rubrics for evaluating student learning prove counterproductive? Subjecting young children to homework, grades, or standardized tests—merely because these things will be required of them later—reminds Kohn of Monty Python’s “getting hit on the head lessons.” And, with tongue firmly in cheek, he declares that we should immediately begin teaching twenty-second-century skills. Whether Kohn is clearing up misconceptions about progressive education or explaining why incentives for healthier living are bound to backfire, debunking the idea that education reform should be driven by concerns about economic competitiveness or putting “Supernanny” in her place, his readers will understand why the Washington Post has said that “teachers and parents who encounter Kohn and his thoughts come away transfixed, ready to change their schools.”
Feel-Bad Film
Feel-Bad Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feel-Bad Film write by Nikolaj Lubecker. This book was released on 2015-05-19. Feel-Bad Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An analysis of what contemporary directors seek to attain by putting their spectators in a position of strong discomfort
Critical Issues in Democratic Schooling
Critical Issues in Democratic Schooling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Issues in Democratic Schooling write by Kenneth Teitelbaum. This book was released on 2020-04-28. Critical Issues in Democratic Schooling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on a wide range of critical issues, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the linkage of different educational ideas, policies, and practices to a commitment for democratic schooling. Informed by significant, interdisciplinary research, as well as by his own extensive professional experiences as a teacher, professor, department chair, and dean, Teitelbaum examines contemporary concerns related to three broad areas: 1) teaching and teacher education; 2) curriculum studies; and 3) multiculturalism and social justice. His approach is to integrate the current and the historical, the practical and the theoretical, the technical and the socio-political, and the personal and the structural. With this volume, Teitelbaum considers how schools should be organized and funded, what they should teach and to whom, the role that teachers, students, and parents should play in school life, and the need and prospects for schools and teacher education programs that foster meaningful learning, critical reflection, and social justice.
Developing Teacher Expertise
Developing Teacher Expertise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Developing Teacher Expertise write by Margaret Sangster. This book was released on 2013-01-17. Developing Teacher Expertise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What are the issues that education raises for you? Beyond the technical skills and knowledge aspects of education, teachers and student teachers face questions which challenge their beliefs and approaches to their teaching and learning. This book contains a series of short articles each of which encourage you to reflect on your own practice and challenge your beliefs about how and what you teach. Questions explored include: When does inclusion become exclusion for the rest of the class? Do interactive whiteboards support or reduce creativity in the classroom? Is drama a luxury in the primary classroom? Should we be teaching other languages to children under seven? Learning outside the classroom, is it worth it? What makes a reflective practitioner? Essential reading for those training to teach children aged between 3 and 11, as well as practicing teachers looking to develop their practice.
Beyond Discipline
Beyond Discipline - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Discipline write by Alfie Kohn. This book was released on 2006. Beyond Discipline available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this 10th anniversary edition of an ASCD best seller, author Alfie Kohn reflects on his innovative ideas about replacing traditional discipline programs, in which things are done to students to control how they act, with a collaborative approach, in which we work with students to create caring communities. Features a new afterword by the author.
