The End of Education

The End of Education

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  • Author: Neil Postman
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN: 0307797201
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 225

In this comprehensive response to the education crisis, the author of Teaching as a Subversive Activity returns to the subject that established his reputation as one of our most insightful social critics. Postman presents useful models with which schools can restore a sense of purpose, tolerance, and a respect for learning.


Summary of Neil Postman's The End of Education

Summary of Neil Postman's The End of Education

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  • Author: Everest Media,
  • Publisher: Everest Media LLC
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 28

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 A god to serve does not necessarily mean the God who is supposed to have created the world and whose moral commandments are presented in sacred texts. In the Western world, beginning in the thirteenth century, God was sufficient justification for the founding of institutions of learning. #2 We cannot do without gods. We are the god-making species. Our genius lies in our capacity to make meaning through the creation of narratives that give point to our labors, exalt our history, and give direction to our future. #3 The most comprehensive narratives are found in the Old Testament, the New Testament, the Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita. But beginning in the sixteenth century, there began to emerge narratives of a different sort, such as inductive science. #4 The science-god is a powerful god that has given people a great deal of control over their lives. It is, however, imperfect. Its story of how everything began is, to say the least, unsatisfying. And its moral instruction is silence.


Learning for the Love of God

Learning for the Love of God

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  • Author: Donald Opitz
  • Publisher: Brazos Press
  • ISBN: 1441244778
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 144

Most Christian college students separate their academic life from church attendance, Bible study, and prayer. Too often discipleship of the mind is overlooked if not ignored altogether. In this lively and enlightening book, two authors who are experienced in college youth ministry show students how to be faithful in their studies, approaching education as their vocation. This revised edition of the well-received The Outrageous Idea of Academic Faithfulness includes updates throughout, two new substantive appendixes, personal stories from students, a new preface, and a fresh interior design. Chapters conclude with thought-provoking discussion questions.


Primary Science Education in East Asia

Primary Science Education in East Asia

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  • Author: Yew-Jin Lee
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319971670
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 262

This edited volume is a state-of-the-art comparison of primary science education across six East-Asian regions; namely, the People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Republic of China, Hong Kong SAR, Japan, and Singapore. While news of educational policies, classroom teaching, assessment, and other educational innovations here often surface in the international media, this book brings together for the first time relevant information regarding educational systems and strategies in primary science in East Asia. Above all, it is a readable yet comprehensive survey—readers would have an accurate sense of what has been accomplished, what has not worked so well, and what remains to be done. Invited experts in comparative education research and/or science education also provide commentary by discussing common themes across the six regions. These types of critical synoptic reviews add much value by enabling readers to understand broad commonalities and help synthesize what must surely be a bewildering amount of very interesting albeit confusing body of facts, issues, and policies. Education in East Asia holds many lessons (both positive and negative) to offer to the rest of the world to which this volume is a timely contribution to the literature.


The Outrageous Idea of Academic Faithfulness

The Outrageous Idea of Academic Faithfulness

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  • Author: Donald Opitz
  • Publisher: Brazos Press
  • ISBN: 1587432102
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 144

Most Christian college students separate their academic life from church attendance, Bible study, and prayer. Too often discipleship of the mind is overlooked if not ignored altogether. However, authors Donald Opitz and Derek Melleby issue a clarion call to students to integrate their faith and learning in The Outrageous Idea of Academic Faithfulness. Colossians 2:3, after all, indicates that in Christ himself are 'all treasures of wisdom and knowledge.' In eight succinct chapters the authors stress the importance of academic discipleship and taking studies seriously. According to Opitz and Melleby, a Christian worldview--or biblical gestalt--brings unity to the fragmented curriculum of higher education. Each breezy chapter concludes with thought-provoking discussion questions as well as recommendations for further reading. Written for a narrative generation, this guide extracts illustrations from the Book of Daniel, The Lord of the Rings, the experiences of real students, and more. This book is an excellent gift for college-bound seniors in high school. It's an essential text for first-year college students, too. Last, The Outrageous Idea of Academic Faithfulness will benefit professors, pastors, and parents. - Publisher.


Bible-Shaped Teaching

Bible-Shaped Teaching

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  • Author: John Shortt
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • ISBN: 1625645589
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 92

The Bible can and should be an environment in which we live and move and have our being, an environment in which we are shaped by God in different and interrelated ways. As with aspects of our physical environment, we may have never noticed many elements of this spiritual environment before or may have only the vaguest sense of their influence. While we may be more familiar with certain elements, we may not realize the full extent of their influence or be too preoccupied to see how they relate to form the larger whole of how we are shaped. This book looks one-by-one at several ways in which the Bible's environment influences us as people and, in particular, shapes our beliefs, attitudes, and practices as teachers in the classroom. It is concerned with helping readers to be, at one and the same time, faithful to our common calling as educators and faithful to the Scriptures as Christians.


Schools That Learn

Schools That Learn

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  • Author: Art Kleiner
  • Publisher: Hachette UK
  • ISBN: 185788941X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 608

A new edition - revised and updated with over 100 pages of new material - of the groundbreaking book that brings the principles of organizational learning to today s schools and classrooms.


Reconstructing 'Education' through Mindful Attention

Reconstructing 'Education' through Mindful Attention

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  • Author: Oren Ergas
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137587822
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 343

This book reconstructs the idea and practice of education. Rather than conceiving of education as a process we undergo in which our minds are shaped by a social vision, Oren Ergas turns this notion of education on its head, arguing instead that we ourselves construct education. The multitude of problems with formal education and schooling, such as violence, inequality, and low achievements, are then seen as reflections of problems of the mind, meaning that close study of the mind is necessary if these problems are to be successfully tackled. Through philosophy, neuroscience and psychology, this book proposes a new perspective on 'educational' theory, practice and research. It will be of great interest to students and teachers, scholars of education, and educational policy-makers.


Christianity and Moral Identity in Higher Education

Christianity and Moral Identity in Higher Education

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  • Author: P. Glanzer
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 0230101496
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 275

This book offers examples from both Christian and secular democratic institutions of higher education and then responds to possible criticisms about how moral education in a comprehensive humanist moral tradition may short change diversity, autonomy and critical thinking.


Educational Design in Six Steps

Educational Design in Six Steps

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  • Author: Yoram Harpaz
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000054292
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 162

The conviction that the traditional educational institutions do not cohere with the values and challenges of our age has become commonplace, yet efforts of governments, organizations and individuals have yet to produce a convincing alternative framework. Educational Design in Six Steps addresses this urgent need, providing a theoretical and practical framework for redesigning and revolutionising any educational environment, across primary, secondary and tertiary education. Offering a new philosophical perspective firmly grounded in the practical, the analysis in this book is framed in terms of six steps, all designed to promote fertile dialogue and planning, so as to benefit not only the objects of our educational enterprises, but also society as a whole. The book provides an understandable typology for setting goals, customising and adapting educational environments, and aligning classroom practice with educational theory and organisational design, offering concrete examples and probing discussion questions throughout. The book is an essential guide for school leaders, administrators, postgraduate students and anyone working to create or reimagine their distinctive educational environments.