Informal Education, Childhood and Youth - 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 Informal Education, Childhood and Youth write by Peter Kraftl. This book was released on 2014-03-25. Informal Education, Childhood and Youth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of original chapters brings together cutting-edge research on informal education - that is, learning practices that emphasise dialogue and learning through everyday life. For the first time, it highlights the way in which geography matters to informal education practices. Through a range of examples from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and from a range of geographical contexts, the authors explore the relationship between history, geography and practice in the field of informal education. Case studies include youth work, Scouting, Guiding, Care Farms, youth music programmes and the use of online/information technologies. This book will be of interest to geographers and sociologists of education, childhood and youth scholars. It also provides an engaging resource and collection of case studies for educators, youth workers and other professionals who work with young people.
Informal Education, Childhood and Youth
Informal Education, Childhood and Youth - 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 Informal Education, Childhood and Youth write by Peter Kraftl. This book was released on 2014-03-25. Informal Education, Childhood and Youth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of original chapters brings together cutting-edge research on informal education - that is, learning practices that emphasise dialogue and learning through everyday life. For the first time, it highlights the way in which geography matters to informal education practices. Through a range of examples from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and from a range of geographical contexts, the authors explore the relationship between history, geography and practice in the field of informal education. Case studies include youth work, Scouting, Guiding, Care Farms, youth music programmes and the use of online/information technologies. This book will be of interest to geographers and sociologists of education, childhood and youth scholars. It also provides an engaging resource and collection of case studies for educators, youth workers and other professionals who work with young people.
Learning Opportunities Beyond the School
Learning Opportunities Beyond the School - 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 Learning Opportunities Beyond the School write by Barbara Hatcher. This book was released on 1987. Learning Opportunities Beyond the School available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 12 articles in this monograph discuss the value of informal learning for children, and suggest how basic skills can be reinforced at school, home, and within community groups and institutions. Promising programs, practices, and activities for children are highlighted. Topics addressed include: (1) a rationale for a rededication to a holistic approach to learning for students, the value of informal learning, and criteria for determining the quality of nonschool settings; (2) the role of the public library in the educational process, services and materials available, and current innovative programs; (3) museum programs offering young patrons opportunities to participate in multisensory exhibits; (4) educational opportunities available through zoological parks (including a list of zoological parks in the United States and bibliography of books about zoos and zoo animals); (5) use of social contexts of school and work to extend children's learning, developmentally appropriate activities for stimulating children's interest in work, and the development of cooperative learning opportunities by schools and businesses; (6) the educational and developmental roles of community service organizations; (7) use of an oral history project to strengthen students' basic skills; (8) activities for students in rural and small towns that reinforce basic skills and nurture a sense of community pride; (9) youth participation programs enabling young adolescents to assume roles of responsible adults; (10) everyday experiences and inexpensive items that can be used to reinforce skills and convey to children a sense of love and well-being; (11) the development of concepts of time in family settings; and (12) the emergence of microcomputers as learning devices in home, museum, library, and other settings. (RH)
Teaching as a Subversive Activity
Teaching as a Subversive Activity - 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 Teaching as a Subversive Activity write by Neil Postman. This book was released on 1987. Teaching as a Subversive Activity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Children's Emotions in Policy and Practice
Children's Emotions in Policy and Practice - 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 Children's Emotions in Policy and Practice write by Peter Kraftl. This book was released on 2016-04-29. Children's Emotions in Policy and Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume examines children's and young people's emotions in policy-making and professional practice. It seeks both to inform readers about up-to-date research and to provoke debate, encouraging and enabling critical reflections upon emotions in policy and practice, relevant to readers' own context.
