What was the true story of the Greatest warrior King in History, Alexander the Great and how he used the minds of all he knew to attempt to create for the first time a Cosmopolis. A story of the people and times whose lives we still read and admire, and how they affected not only life around them but life to this day in the modern world. Aristotle, Phillip, Olympia Ptolemy and many others who helped mold and shape today.

THE DRUID

Literature & Fiction

Frank, Jeff

Genre Fiction

iUniverse

The new Keynesian economics: Unemployment, search, and contracting

Business & Money

Economics

Wheatsheaf Books

John Dewey’s Experience and Education is an important book, but first-time readers of Dewey’s philosophy can find it challenging and not meaningfully related to the contemporary landscape of education. Jeff Frank’s Teaching in the Now aims to reanimate Dewey’s text―for first-time readers and anyone who teaches the text or is interested in appreciating Dewey’s continuing significance―by focusing on Dewey’s thinking on preparation. Frank, through close readings of Dewey, asks readers to wonder: How much of what we justify as preparation in education is actually necessary? That is, every time we catch ourselves telling a student―you need to learn this in order to do something else―we need to stop and reflect. We need to reflect, because when we always justify the present moment of a student’s education in terms of what will happen in the future, we may lose out on the ability to engage students’ attention and interest now, when it matters. Dewey asks his readers to trust that the best way to prepare students for an engaging and productive future is to create the most engaging and productive present experience for students. We learn to live fully in the future, only by practicing living fully in the present. Although it can feel scary to stop thinking of the work of education in terms of preparation, when educators reclaim the present for students, new opportunities―for teachers, students, schools, democracy, and education―emerge. Teaching in the Now explores these opportunities in impassioned and engaging prose that makes Experience and Education come alive for readers new to Dewey or who have taught and read him for many years.

Teaching in the Now: John Dewey on the Educational Present

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Purdue University Press

Savage

Comics & Graphic Novels

NILES, STEVE

Wickline, Dan

Graphic Novels

IMAGE COMICS +

This book offers a lived defense of liberal education. How does a college professor, on a daily basis, help students feel the value of liberal education and get the most from that education? We answer this question, as professors, each day in the classroom. John William Miller, a philosophy professor at Williams College from 1924-1960 and someone noted for his exceptional teaching, developed one form that this lived defense can take. Though Miller published very little while he was alive, the archives at Williams College hold unpublished notes and essays of this master teacher. In this book, Jeff Frank offers an extended commentary on one of these unpublished essays where Miller develops his thinking on liberal education. Frank refines the idea that presence is central to liberal education and offers suggestions for how professors can become an educative presence for students. The goal of this book is an invitation to other professors who value liberal education to think with Miller about how to foster their own lived defense of liberal education, each day, in their own classrooms. The tone of the book is meant to be invitational, at times even conversational, and the book concludes with some direct suggestions for how professors can live their own defense of liberal education.

Being a Presence for Students: Teaching as a Lived Defense of Liberal Education

Higher & Continuing Education

Lever Press

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