By Enzo Ruffaldi
Il quantity è l. a. nuova edizione, con diverso editore, di un'opera dallo stesso titolo edita nel 1999. E' stata interamente rivista e adeguata alle problematiche della didattica con strmenti elettronici.
Propone una sintesi delle questioni aperte e del dibattito sulla didattica della filosofia e soprattutto delle metodologie effettivamente in uso nella scuola italiana: le "buone pratiche" in line with insegnare filosofia.
By George Keller
While he celebrated larger schooling because the engine of development in each element of yank lifestyles, George Keller additionally challenged academia’s sacred cows and entrenched practices with provocative rules designed to urge "creative discomfort." accomplished almost immediately earlier than his loss of life in 2007, Higher schooling and the hot Society caps the occupation of 1 of upper education’s remarkable minds.
Refining and increasing rules Keller constructed over his fifty-year occupation, this booklet is a clarion demand swap. within the face of a remodeled American society marked by way of inhabitants shifts, technological upheavals, and a risky fiscal panorama, Keller urges leaders in larger schooling to work out and confront their very own severe problems.
With attribute forthrightness and inimitable wit, Keller ambitions serious components the place daring pondering is principally very important, taking up such explosive concerns because the configuration of educational disciplines, the runaway challenge of big-time activities, the decline of the liberal arts, and the pressing difficulties of funds and prices.
Keller anticipated this booklet to ignite dialogue and controversy inside educational circles, and he was hoping fervently that it should additionally result in genuine considering, actual research, and urgently wanted transformation.
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By Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum
A New York occasions e-book Review Editors' Choice
A Los Angeles Times top e-book of 2011
In That was Us, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum research the 4 significant demanding situations we are facing as a country---globalization, the revolution in info know-how, persistent deficits, and our trend of strength consumption---and spell out what we have to do now to maintain American energy on the earth. the tip of the chilly conflict blinded the country to the necessity to handle those matters heavily, and China's academic successes, business may well, and technological prowess in lots of methods remind united states of america time while "that was once us." yet Friedman and Mandelbaum convey how America's heritage, whilst competently understood, deals a five-part formulation for prosperity that may allow us to manage effectively with the demanding situations we are facing. That was Us is either a looking exploration of the yank situation at the present time and a rousing manifesto for American renewal.
By Ursula Thomas
Readers of this e-book will the right way to create and/or research serious concerns approximately tradition and ideology and how those matters effect perceptions on how varied newcomers event studying. This e-book motivates the reader to ascertain, their very own biases approximately educational offerings within the context of tradition in school rooms.
In the wake of 2 a long time during which postmodern conception has develop into extremely popular in collage humanities and social technological know-how departments world wide, Gavin Kitching claims that postmodernism is inflicting damage to scholars intellectually.
Postmodern thought has engaged the hearts and heads of the brightest scholars as a result of its obvious political and social radicalism. but Kitching writes: “At the center of postmodernism is particularly terrible, deeply burdened, and misbegotten philosophy. for this reason even some of the best scholars who fall lower than its sway produce extensively incoherent principles approximately language, that means, fact, and reality.”
This isn't one other conservative assault on postmodern idea. really, it's a conscientiously thought of research from a committed college instructor who's confident that we have got long gone extraordinarily off beam. He analyzes why ordinary postmodern theoretical methods easily aren’t potent instruments for facing the realities of individuals and their actions, and he describes the philosophical confusion that lies on the middle of the matter. He additionally demonstrates the political implications for college students, their universities, and society while scholars discover ways to use poorly built arguments because the foundation in their writing.
The difficulty with thought is crucial studying for all scholars writing a thesis within the humanities and the social sciences and for his or her teachers.
By Bob Jickling, Stephen Sterling
This ebook presents a critique of over twenty years of sustained attempt to infuse academic platforms with schooling for sustainable improvement. Taking to center the concept deconstruction is a prelude to reconstruction, this critique results in discussions approximately how schooling could be remade, and reply to the tutorial imperatives of our time, fairly as they relate to ecological crises and human-nature relationships. will probably be of serious curiosity to scholars and researchers of sociology, schooling, philosophy and environmental concerns.
By Ray Land
Threshold innovations in perform brings jointly fifty researchers from 16 nations and a large choice of disciplines to examine their educating perform, and the training studies in their scholars, throughout the lens of the brink suggestions Framework. In any self-discipline, there are particular suggestions - the 'jewels within the curriculum' - whose acquisition is resembling passing via a portal. novices input new conceptual (and frequently affective) territory. formerly inaccessible methods of pondering or training become visible, with out which they can't development, and which supply a remodeled inner view of topic panorama, or perhaps international view. those conceptual gateways are integrative, exposing the formerly hidden interrelatedness of rules, and are irreversible. even if they often current complex wisdom and are frequently issues at which scholars turn into caught. hassle in realizing may perhaps depart the learner in a 'liminal' nation of transition, a 'betwixt and among' house of figuring out and never understanding, the place realizing can approximate to a kind of mimicry. inexperienced persons navigating such areas document a feeling of uncertainty, ambiguity, paradox, anxiousness, even chaos. The liminal house may perhaps both be one in all awe and wonderment. Thresholds study identifies those areas as key transformational issues, an important to the learner's improvement yet the place they could oscillate and stay for massive sessions. those areas require not just conceptual yet ontological and discursive shifts. This quantity, the fourth in a tetralogy on Threshold thoughts, discusses scholar reports, and the curriculum interventions in their academics, in a variety of disciplines practices together with medication, legislation, engineering, structure and army schooling.
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By Penny Holland
"This ebook can be a useful aid to all practitioners who don't take pleasure in 'policing' kid's play themes." Nursery World
conflict, weapon and superhero play has been banned in lots of early youth settings for over 30 years. This ebook explores the improvement and alertness of a 0 tolerance process in the course of the eyes of kids and practitioners.
the writer demanding situations the major purpose for linking competitive play issues to violent behaviour. She examines play the place kids are allowed to build guns and enact goodies/baddies and superhero situations with delicate grownup assistance, and explores the commonly confident stories of kids and practitioners. instead of studying this way of play because the starting of the slippery slope in the direction of anti-social behaviour, readers are invited to view it as an access element to innovative play and social development.
We do not play with weapons here is an interesting and insightful contribution to this zone of a lot debate within the early early life group. The booklet is vital studying for early youth practitioners, academics, scholars, mom and dad and coverage makers.
Like a powerful beginning in a home, the weather of a faculty is the root that helps the buildings of training and studying. This e-book presents a framework for educators to examine institution and school room climates utilizing either casual and formal measures. each one bankruptcy specializes in a unique element of weather and info recommendations that could be utilized by heads or lecture room lecturers to pass judgement on the wellbeing and fitness in their studying surroundings. The booklet units out to augment knowing of the elements of a fit studying atmosphere and the instruments had to increase that surroundings. It additionally appears at how you can determine the influence of switch actions in enhancing and maintaining academic excellence. The overseas workforce of members carry views from the varsity structures in the United States, united kingdom, Australia and Holland.
By Alexander W. Astin
Praise for Cultivating the Spirit
"A groundbreaking learn of the non secular progress of faculty students.... The religious size of upper schooling has been explored from a number of angles for the earlier 20 years, yet now not formerly have we had a reliable and complete physique of knowledge equipped round well-defined dimensions of this advanced phenomenon. this can be a necessary booklet for a person in academia who cares in regards to the schooling of the complete person."
—Parker J. Palmer, writer, The middle of upper Education, A Hidden Wholeness, Let Your lifestyles Speak, and The braveness to Teach
"An very important publication for layperson alike. a gorgeous serious warning call for larger education—highly recommended!"
—Ken Wilber, writer, The vital Vision
"Cultivating the Spirit makes a distinct and critical contribution to 1 of the least tested but so much primary questions on undergraduate schooling: how scholars collect the values and convictions that aid to offer which means and goal to their lives.... The authors supply a wealth of precious findings approximately this important method and its results on pupil fulfillment, healthiness, and private development in college."
—Derek Bok, former president, Harvard collage, and writer, The Politics of Happiness
"The fruit of a decade of elegantly designed and compelling learn, Cultivating the Spirit offers well timed and critical facts for reorienting the dialog concerning the relationships between highbrow inquiry, conventional educational values, and the formation of the interior existence. Informative, sincerely written, crucial, and evocative examining for present day school throughout all institutions—public and personal, secular and religious."
—Sharon Daloz Parks, writer, Big Questions, Worthy Dreams and Leadership should be Taught