Happiness and Education

Nel Noddings

Cambridge University Press

Critical Lessons: What Our Schools Should Teach

Awakening the inner eye: Intuition in education

Science & Math

Paul J. Shore

Behavioral Sciences

Teachers College, Columbia University

No plan to increase achievement and enact reform in the social studies classroom will succeed without recognizing the central importance of the teacher as the “gatekeeper” of instruction. In this book, Thornton details why teachers must develop strong skills in curriculum planning and teaching methods in order for effective instruction to occur. Thornton helps teachers to develop a vision of their practice that will build strong social studies programs and inspire students to learn. Features: <ul>
<li> An approach to preparing purposeful teachers, acknowledging that teachers make daily decisions concerning what to teach and how to teach it.</li> <li> Replicable examples of the kinds of reflective practice that will enable teachers to animate classroom instruction and create a dynamic social studies curriculum.</li> <li> An analysis of how teachers adapt and shape state and district level curricula and classroom materials to fit the specific needs of their students―a model of how to develop an instructional program with suggestions for lesson planning.</li> <li> In-depth examinations of alternative ways of educating teachers in subject matter and teaching methods.</li>
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Teaching Social Studies that Matters: Curriculum for Active Learning

Education & Teaching

Stephen J. Thornton

Schools & Teaching

Teachers' College Press

After a decade of educational reforms, The Challenge to Care in Schools is even more relevant now than when it was first published. In her new Introduction, Nel Noddings revisits her seminal book and places care as central to current debates on standardization, accountability, privatization, and the continuous struggle between traditional and progressive methods of education. Rather then forcing one side to yield to the other, this book advocates an alternative “responsive system” that will allow the best ideas to flourish. In the Second Edition, Noddings once again envisions a school system built on the idea that different people have different strengths, and that these strengths should be cultivated in an environment of caring, not of competition. She suggests that if we make the responsiveness characteristic of caring more basic than accountability, we can accommodate both traditional and progressive preferences in one school system to the benefit of all…especially the children. Chapters address the practical and theoretical questions involved in organizing traditional and nontraditional areas of study around themes of care. Introductory chapters focus on caring in general and on the problems of liberal education, while the final chapter offers sound advice for implementing a caring curriculum in our schools. Praise for the First Edition! "A welcome addition to the often fragmented discussion of what children need and what school and education should be." ―Harvard Educational Review "I recommend this book to all concerned about education, personally and/or professionally." ―Journal of Moral Education "In the morass of school reform that calls for such changes as national standards, improved assessments, and new ways of organizing schooling, Noddings provides lucid thinking about the priorities we ought to consider." ―Teachers College Record

The Challenge to Care in Schools: An Alternative Approach to Education, Second Edition (Advances in Contemporary Educational Thought Series)

Peace Education

Awakening the Inner Eye: Intuition in Education

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Educators Intl Pr Inc

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