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Download this eBook The Evolution and Evaluation of Massive Open Online Courses
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The Evolution and Evaluation of Massive Open Online Courses


Leonard J. Waks


?Winner of the Outstanding Book Award (Society for Professors of Education)This book offers a re-assessment of the educational and occupational value of MOOCs based on developments since 2013. When MOOCs appeared--amidst great fanfare in 2012, leaders proclaimed an...

Publication date: 2016-11-24
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Download this eBook Ethics, Aesthetics, and Education
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Ethics, Aesthetics, and Education


Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones


This book explores Levinas’ phenomenology of ethical motivation. Levinas is grounded in “radical alterity”, the knowledge that ethics exists only when we are fully separate from someone else, allowing us to experience connection with one another. In this book, the...

Publication date: 2016-08-24
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Download this eBook US Public Schools and the Politics of Queer Erasure
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US Public Schools and the Politics of Queer Erasure


C. Lugg


This book presents a history of queer erasure in the US public school system, from the 1920s up until today. By focusing on specific events as well as the context in which they occurred, Lugg presents a way forward in improving school policies for both queer youth and...

Publication date: 2016-02-09
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Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
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Download this eBook Philosophies of Environmental Education and Democracy: Harris, Dewey, and Bateson on Human Freedoms in Nature
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Philosophies of Environmental Education and Democracy: Harris, Dewey, and Bateson on Human Freedoms in Nature


Joseph Watras


The project examines how three prominent philosophers of education - William Torrey Harris, John Dewey, and Gregory Bateson - each developed a world view that provides a philosophical basis for environmental education.

Publication date: 2015-09-03
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Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
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Download this eBook Systems Theory for Pragmatic Schooling: Toward Principles of Democratic Education
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Systems Theory for Pragmatic Schooling: Toward Principles of Democratic Education


C. Cunningham


Writing for educators and education leaders, Cunningham shows that combining a philosophy of pragmatism with thinking about education as systems can illuminate challenges in contemporary schooling and provide practical solutions for creating a democratic education.

Publication date: 2014-11-20
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Download this eBook Five Paradigms for Education
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Five Paradigms for Education


T. Newell


Newell compares the fundamental assumptions of five major worldviews of education and their implications for classroom practice, incorporating history and case studies and posing questions about the limits and benefits of employing each today.

Publication date: 2014-11-20
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Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
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Download this eBook Knowing and Learning as Creative Action: A Reexamination of the Epistemological Foundations of Education
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Knowing and Learning as Creative Action: A Reexamination of the Epistemological Foundations of Education


A. Stoller


In Knowing and Learning as Creative Action, Aaron Stoller makes the case that contemporary schooling is grounded in a flawed model of knowing, which draws together mistakes in thinking about the nature of the self, of knowledge, and of reality, which are contained in...

Publication date: 2014-09-19
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Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
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Download this eBook Children's Bodies in Schools: Corporeal Performances of Social Class
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Children's Bodies in Schools: Corporeal Performances of Social Class


S. Henry


Bringing together sociology of the body with powerful examinations of educational theory and social class, Henry examines how children's experiences of school and pedagogy are shaped by their bodies and the ideas of social class and class identity that their bodies...

Publication date: 2014-06-11
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Download this eBook A Levinasian Ethics for Education's Commonplaces
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A Levinasian Ethics for Education's Commonplaces


C. Joldersma


Joldersma applies Levinas's ethics systematically to the commonplaces of education - teaching, learning, curriculum, and institutions - and elucidates the role of justice and responsibility and the meaning of calling and inspiration in education.

Publication date: 2014-02-14
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Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
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