Alternative Schooling and New Education

2017-11-17
Alternative Schooling and New Education

PDF Alternative Schooling and New Education Download

  • Author: Ralf Koerrenz
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319678647
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 125

This book examines the European discussion about alternative schooling in the 20th century. It refers to a stream of concepts that are often described as New Education, Progressive Education, Education Nouvelle or Reformpädagogik, and discusses a range of different models of alternative schooling. Exploring the works of a range of continental educational philosophers, including Lietz, Blonsky, Kerschensteiner, Freinet, Decroly and Petersen, the book offers a unique insight into texts not yet translated into English. These educational models are presented with regards to the biographical background of the authors; the crucial elements of their construction; the historical interconnections between schooling, society and culture; and finally their connection to today’s discussions in educational sciences. The book will be highly relevant for researchers and advanced students working on the theory, history and practice of schooling, particularly those with a focus on alternative schooling and the philosophy of education.

Alternative Educational Programmes, Schools and Social Justice

2020-08-14
Alternative Educational Programmes, Schools and Social Justice

PDF Alternative Educational Programmes, Schools and Social Justice Download

  • Author: Glenda McGregor
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 9780367593070
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 146

Alternative education caters and cares for students whose regular schools have failed and excluded them. This collection addresses the important question - what might regular schools and teachers learn about socially just pedagogies from alternative education practices? First published as a special issue of Critical Studies in Education.

Helping Students Graduate

2013-10-31
Helping Students Graduate

PDF Helping Students Graduate Download

  • Author: Franklin Schargel
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317925823
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 288

This book describes the fifteen strategies identified through research reviewed by The National Dropout Prevention Center and Network at Clemson University. Each chapter in this book was written by a nationally recognized authority in that field. Research has shown that these 15 strategies have been successfully implemented in all school levels from K - 12 in rural, suburban, and urban centers; as stand-alone programs or as part of systemic school improvement plans. Helping Students Graduate: A Strategic Approach to Dropout Prevention also covers No Child Left Behind and its effects on dropout rates; Dealing with Hispanic dropouts; Differences and similarities between rural and urban dropouts. These fifteen strategies have been adopted by the U.S. Department of Education. They are applicable to all students, including students with disabilities.

Teaching in Alternative and Flexible Education Settings

2019-12-18
Teaching in Alternative and Flexible Education Settings

PDF Teaching in Alternative and Flexible Education Settings Download

  • Author: Aspa Baroutsis
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1351015931
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 185

Alternative and flexible education settings may come in different forms, but they generally have in common a focus on young people who have been disengaged from conventional schooling. One challenge of these settings, therefore, is to change the way education is offered in order to better engage these students. Much of the onus for this changed approach is on the staff: teachers, youth workers and other support staff. Therefore, the purpose of this book is to examine different aspects of the work of staff in these settings. Several common threads run through the chapters in this book, highlighting core aspects of the work of staff in these settings: • A strong sense of commitment to working with and for young people from marginalised backgrounds. • Validation of the relational and emotional nature of education, as a fundamentally people-centred enterprise. • The importance of explicit attention to critical reflection on staff members’ own positionality, assumptions and identity. • Collegiality as a crucially affirming part of school culture for staff. These elements are pertinent to educational settings everywhere. The chapters in this book serve as a reminder of what really ‘counts’ for our young people and their schooling. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Teaching Education.

Alternative American Schools

1991-01-01
Alternative American Schools

PDF Alternative American Schools Download

  • Author: Claire V. Korn
  • Publisher: SUNY Press
  • ISBN: 9780791404713
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 192

Alternative American Schools: Ideals in Action is a book for parents and teachers, for education professors, researchers, and students--indeed, for everyone who wants to understand the daily practices and philosophies of schools where awakening interests and learning how to learn is more important than content mastery. Drawing upon years of research and personal experiences, Korn clearly discusses fundamental contemporary educational issues through an analysis of seven long-lived, open, alternative schools, preschool through high school, public and private. This clearly written book explores the cooperative (and sometimes confusing) roles of teachers, students, and parents in these schools of choice; it also discusses their philosophical, financial, and physical survival needs. Once popularly dismissed as failed dreams, today these open learning environments continue to flourish and provide educational options to many enthusiastic learners.

Enter the Alternative School

2015-11-17
Enter the Alternative School

PDF Enter the Alternative School Download

  • Author: Alia R. Tyner-Mullings
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317260368
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 172

Enter the Alternative School is an in-depth examination of public school alternatives to traditional educational models in the US. This book analyses how urban education can respond to a system growing increasingly standardised and privatised. As an example, Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS), a public alternative schooling model, successfully served predominantly low-income and minority students. It also changed the New York City public school system while promoting methods that allowed educational institutions to make changes in the lives of their students. Written by a sociologist who was both a student at CPESS and a teacher at a school developed from the CPESS model, the book analyses education from a range of vantage points, assesses outcomes, and invites readers to consider the potential of alternative educational models to address the challenges of reforms that attempt to provide quality education to the low-income and minority students otherwise under served by public schools.

The Handbook of Alternative Education

1994
The Handbook of Alternative Education

PDF The Handbook of Alternative Education Download

  • Author: Jerry Mintz
  • Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Alternative education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 456

This text considers issues in alternative education. It looks at the issues from teaching, learning and research perspectives.

Alternative Approaches to Education

2003
Alternative Approaches to Education

PDF Alternative Approaches to Education Download

  • Author: Fiona Carnie
  • Publisher: Psychology Press
  • ISBN: 0415248175
  • Category : Alternative education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 208

This book is designed to give parents and teachers information on the alternative education options available in the UK. It covers three main areas: Outside the state system: small schools; Steiner Waldorf schools; Montessori schools; democratic schools and other schools with alternative philosophies Doing it yourself: setting up a small school or learning centre; educating at home; flexible schooling Alternatives within the state system: how some state schools are finding different ways of working The values, philosophies and methods of each alternative are described, including the first-hand experiences and accounts of children, teachers and parents. There are answers to common questions and useful sources of further information. This accessible and informative book is the ideal introduction for parents deciding how best to educate their children. It will be of interest to teachers looking to build their knowledge of different education philosophies.

Changing Schools

2011-08-08
Changing Schools

PDF Changing Schools Download

  • Author: Terry Wrigley
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 113673452X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 241

"The raising of standards in schools is a global challenge to policy-makers. To overcome it means to remove the ongoing influence of poverty on school success. In an age of global mobility, economic polarization and unprecedented environmental and cultural challenges, the education of all children and young people to higher levels has become a key issue of international policy. This book presents new thinking and practice for progressing school change today, drawn from the works of authors around the world. Educational policy-making has been dominated by particular human capital oriented theories of school improvement, formulated and implemented in neo-liberal political environments. This book seeks to challenge this dominance. It draws both on contemporary innovations in practice and theory and long standing traditions of alternative thinking and practice. Linking together and articulating other ways of conceiving of and implementing school change, it bases its findings on values of equality and global citizenship. It shows how schools can work to make different knowledges, languages, narratives, truths and ways of being integral to mainstream curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and school cultures and structures. The book is directed at all who are concerned with progressive school change and the promotion of democratic citizenship and social justice. This will include education students, those currently studying for school leadership positions, heads, teachers and policy-makers"--Provided by publisher.

Alternative Schooling and School Choice

2012-09-06
Alternative Schooling and School Choice

PDF Alternative Schooling and School Choice Download

  • Author: Allan G. Osborne, Jr.
  • Publisher: SAGE
  • ISBN: 1412987954
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 401

Written and signed by experts in the field, this volume in the point/counterpoint Debating Issues in American Education reference series tackles the topic of alternative schooling and school choice, offering an illustrated overview of the topic as well as providing resources for further study.