Educational Imperatives in a Changing Culture

Educational Imperatives in a Changing Culture
Title Educational Imperatives in a Changing Culture PDF eBook
Author William W. Brickman
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 244
Release 2015-09-30
Genre Education
ISBN 1512801038

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Mindstorms

Mindstorms
Title Mindstorms PDF eBook
Author Seymour A Papert
Publisher Basic Books
Pages 256
Release 2020-10-06
Genre Education
ISBN 154167510X

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In this revolutionary book, a renowned computer scientist explains the importance of teaching children the basics of computing and how it can prepare them to succeed in the ever-evolving tech world. Computers have completely changed the way we teach children. We have Mindstorms to thank for that. In this book, pioneering computer scientist Seymour Papert uses the invention of LOGO, the first child-friendly programming language, to make the case for the value of teaching children with computers. Papert argues that children are more than capable of mastering computers, and that teaching computational processes like de-bugging in the classroom can change the way we learn everything else. He also shows that schools saturated with technology can actually improve socialization and interaction among students and between students and teachers. Technology changes every day, but the basic ways that computers can help us learn remain. For thousands of teachers and parents who have sought creative ways to help children learn with computers, Mindstorms is their bible.

The New Imperatives of Educational Change

The New Imperatives of Educational Change
Title The New Imperatives of Educational Change PDF eBook
Author Dennis Shirley
Publisher Routledge
Pages 207
Release 2016-11-10
Genre Education
ISBN 1317404564

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The New Imperatives of Educational Change is a clarion call to move beyond the standardized testing and marketplace competition that have become pervasive in school systems to focus instead on creating the conditions that will encourage all students to become critical and independent thinkers. Dennis Shirley presents five new imperatives to guide educators and policymakers towards a re-thinking of what it means to teach effectively and to learn in depth. The evidentiary imperative requires educators to attain a better grasp of what data actually reveal about international trends in student learning. The interpretive imperative encourages mindful deliberation before acting on evidence in order to promote the integrity of a school community. The professional imperative describes new international research findings on promising pedagogies and curricula that propel learning in new directions. The global imperative argues that we all must look beyond our national boundaries to improve the flourishing of all young people, wherever they may be found. Finally, the existential imperative reminds us that students look to their teachers as role models who can dignify learning with meaning and embellish life with joy. Visionary in its scope and practical in its details, The New Imperatives of Educational Change is an indispensable road map for all teachers, principals, and system leaders.

The Educational Imperative

The Educational Imperative
Title The Educational Imperative PDF eBook
Author Peter Abbs
Publisher Routledge
Pages 259
Release 2013-05-13
Genre Education
ISBN 1136364447

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Written with both the cultural and moral crisis and the challenge of the future in mind, Peter Abbs's book charts an open, clear, and positive way forward for education. Divided into four sections, the first examines the true and fitting ends of education and outlines a positive conception of education as an initiation into critical enquiry and the personal art of learning. The two middle sections consider aesthetic education. Abbs confronts government approaches to arts teaching and offers an alternative dynamic paradigm within which the creativity of the culture transmitted down the ages and the creativity of the individual seen as biologically given must be combined. The outcome of this is explored, in detail, in relation to the teaching of literature, creative writing and drama. The final section offers critical appraisals of influential figures in the arts field:; Herbert Reid, the late Peter Fuller and David Holbrook.

The Moral Imperative Realized

The Moral Imperative Realized
Title The Moral Imperative Realized PDF eBook
Author Michael Fullan
Publisher Corwin Press
Pages 97
Release 2011
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1412996104

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Educational Imperative

Educational Imperative
Title Educational Imperative PDF eBook
Author Freda H. Goldman
Publisher
Pages 124
Release 1963
Genre Adult education
ISBN

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The Cultural Imperative

The Cultural Imperative
Title The Cultural Imperative PDF eBook
Author Richard D. Lewis
Publisher Nicholas Brealey International
Pages 338
Release 2007
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9781931930352

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Will the tidal wave of globalization lead us to a bland and uniform cultural landscape dominated by a unified cultural perspective? Will cultural imperialism triumph in the twenty-first century? Or will culture, which drives human behavior through religion, language, geography and history, maintain its influence on the human consciousness? In The Cultural Imperative, Global Trends in the Twenty-first Century, Richard D Lewis explores these questions and proposes his thesis in this sweeping new book that examines the forces that keep us from taking off our cultural spectacles and explains how cultural traits are to deeply embedded to be homogenized, as predicted by so many others.