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The Abolition of Manby C. S. LewisISBN 0060652942 (0-06-065294-2)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Abolition of Man'Book summary:The Abolition of Man is a 1943 book by C. S. Lewis. It is subtitled "Reflections on education with special reference to the teaching of English in the upper forms of schools," and uses that as a starting point for a defense of objective value and natural law, and a warning of the consequences of doing away with or "debunking" those things. It defends science as something worth pursuing but criticizes using it to debunk values - the value of science itself being among them - or defining it to exclude such values. [via]
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The Abolition of Man: Or Reflections on Education With Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schoolsby C. S. LewisISBN 0684823713 (0-684-82371-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Abolition of Man: Or Reflections on Education With Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schools'Book summary:C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man purports to be a book specifically about public education, but its central concerns are broadly political, religious, and philosophical. In the best of the book's three essays, "Men Without Chests," Lewis trains his laser-sharp wit on a mid- century English high school text, considering the ramifications of teaching British students to believe in idle relativism, and to reject "the doctrine of objective value, the belief that certain attitudes are really true, and others really false, to the kind of thing the universe is and the kinds of things we are." Lewis calls this doctrine the "Tao," and he spends much of the book explaining why society needs a sense of objective values. The Abolition of Man speaks with astonishing freshness to contemporary debates about morality; and even if Lewis seems a bit too cranky and privileged for his arguments to be swallowed whole, at least his articulation of values seems less ego-driven, and therefore is more useful, than that of current writers such as Bill Bennett and James Dobson. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Among Schoolchildrenby Tracy KidderISBN 0380710897 (0-380-71089-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Among Schoolchildren'Book summary:Brimming with the exuberance and innocence of childhood, Among School Children is the intense and affecting chronicle of a Holyoke, Massachusetts, fifth-grade teacher's passionate dedication to the children in her classroom.#Houghton Mifflin. (Nonfiction) [via]
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A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learningby Karen AndreolaISBN 1889209023 (1-889209-02-3)
Softcover, Charlotte Mason Reseach & Supply co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning'Book summary:Now you can realize the joy filled homeschool of your dreams! This modern classic is written by the homeschool mom who first carried Charlotte Mason's writings to America in her suitcase in 1987. Miss Mason's books were soon republished for a new generation. After ten years of intense study and successful application of Miss Mason s principles with her own children, Karen wrote A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning. Today's parents can now see what a Charlotte Mason education looks like in a contemporary setting while gleaning from its many benefits. Charlotte Mason's principles of education are not only a way of learning but also a way of life. A Charlotte Mason Companion gives you powerful tools to create an extraordinary learning experience. At the turn of every page, you will meet a practical idea and the inspiration to carry it out. Topics on using good books, heroes in history, poetry, art and music appreciation, nature study, the atmosphere of home, the discipline of habit, keeping up enthusiasm, (to name a few) are referred to again and again by Karen s readers. It is one of the most trusted and often quoted books in the home school world since 1998. Plenty of encouragement, wisdom and gentle instruction await you in this beautifully written and beautifully illustrated book. You will not want to loan this one out! [via]
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The Closing of the American Mindby Allan BloomISBN 0671657151 (0-671-65715-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Closing of the American Mind'Book summary:THE BRILLIANT AND CONTROVERSIAL CRITIQUE OF AMERICAN CULTURE WITH NEARLY A MILLION COPIES IN PRINT
In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites.
Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Blooms argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today. [via]
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The Closing of the American Mind/How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Studentsby Allan BloomISBN 0671479903 (0-671-47990-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Closing of the American Mind/How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students'Book summary:THE BRILLIANT AND CONTROVERSIAL CRITIQUE OF AMERICAN CULTURE WITH NEARLY A MILLION COPIES IN PRINT In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind , an appraisal of contemporary America that "hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy" ( The New York Times ) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom's argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today. [via]
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The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classicsby C. S. LewisISBN 0060506083 (0-06-050608-3)
Hardcover, Harper San Francisco
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics'Book summary:For the first time ever, these seven essential volumes by C. S. Lewis are available in a single edition. This remarkable book presents the classic works Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Problem of Pain, Miracles, A Grief Observed, and Lewis's prophetic examination of universal values, The Abolition of Man. Beautiful and timeless, this is a vital collection by one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. Lewis reached a vast audience during his lifetime, and books such as Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters continue to be regarded as among the best spiritual writing of all time. With his uncanny grasp of human nature, Lewis offers a refreshing antidote to the modern world's consumerism and moral relativism. This new edition of his most celebrated books highlights Lewis's compassion for humanity and his relevance for the twenty-first century. [via]
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The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Lifeby Parker J. PalmerISBN 0787910589 (0-7879-1058-9)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life'Book summary:As a spiritually inspirational book for teachers, The Courage to Teach is one of the best. The premise is concise and unarguable: good teaching comes from the identity and the integrity of the teacher. Teachers are encouraged to turn their inquiring minds inward--developing a deeper understanding of what it means to fulfill the spiritual calling of teaching. Good teachers share one trait, says author Parker Palmer, they are able to weave a complex web of connections among themselves, their subjects, and their students, so that students can learn to weave a world for themselves. The connections made by good teachers are held not in their methods but in their hearts--the place where intellect and emotion and spirit and will converge in the human self. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Knowby E.D. HirschISBN 1569562199 (1-56956-219-9)
Softcover, William a Thomas Braille
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know'Book summary:In this forceful manifesto, Hirsch argues that children in the U.S. are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. Includes 5,000 essential facts to know. [via]
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Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Knowby Joseph F. Kett, E.D. Hirsch, James S. TrefilISBN 0394758439 (0-394-75843-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know'Book summary:In this forceful manifesto, hirsch argues that children in the u.s. Are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. Includes 5,000 essential facts to know [via]
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Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Educationby John DeweyISBN 1421906139 (1-4219-0613-9)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy And Education'Book summary:[A]s long as men kept a sharp disjunction between knowledge and ignorance, science made only slow and accidental advance. Systematic advance in invention and discovery began when men recognized that they could utilize doubt for purposes of inquiry by forming conjectures to guide action in tentative explorations... -from "Experience and Thinking" One of the most influential figures in the progressive education movement of the early 20th century delineated here, in this 1916 volume, his profoundly revolutionary ideas about how best to teach young minds to be vigorous citizens of a truly democratic society. Reconciling classic philosophies of Rousseau and Plato with the needs and demands of the modern world, Dewey emphasizes critical thinking, problem solving, and learning through practical applications of complex concepts to create an integrated, holistic approach not merely to "schooling" but to the training and uplifting of the minds of children. Dewey and his progressive philosophies fell out of favor after World War II, but they are well worth revisiting today, in an era when American schools and their educational processes are again under fire. American educator and philosopher JOHN DEWEY (1859-1952) helped found the American Association of University Professors. He served as professor of philosophy at Columbia University from 1904 to 1930 and authored numerous books, including The School and Society (1899), Experience and Nature (1925), Experience and Education (1938), and Freedom and Culture (1939). 435 cosimo ad 1596054085_int_back 436-438 blank 1596054085_int_back [via]
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- Democracy And Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education: ISBN 1596054085 (1-59605-408-5)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc - Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education: ISBN 0684836319 (0-684-83631-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education: ISBN 0029073707 (0-02-907370-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Democracy and Education: ISBN 0760765863 (0-7607-6586-3)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books - Democracy And Education: ISBN 1421906139 (1-4219-0613-9)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
- Democracy And Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education: ISBN 1596054085 (1-59605-408-5)
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Democracy and Educationby DeweyISBN 0486433994 (0-486-43399-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy and Education'Book summary:John Dewey's "Democracy and Education" addresses the challenge of providing quality public education in a democratic society. In this classic work Dewey calls for the complete renewal of public education, arguing for the fusion of vocational and contemplative studies in education and for the necessity of universal education for the advancement of self and society. First published in 1916, "Democracy and Education" is regarded as the seminal work on public education by one of the most important scholars of the century. [via]
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Democracy and Education, 1916by John Dewey, Jo Ann BoydstonISBN 080931259X (0-8093-1259-X)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy and Education, 1916'Book summary:[via]John Deweys best-known and still-popular classic, Democracy and Education, is presented here as a new edition in Volume 9 of the Middle Works. Sidney Hook, who wrote the introduction to this volume, describes Democracy and Education: It illuminates directly or indirectly all the basic issues that are central today to the concerns of intelligent educators. . . . It throws light on several obscure corners in Deweys general philosophy in a vigorous, simple prose style often absent in his more technical writings. And it is the only work in any field originally published as a textbook that has not merely acquired the status of a classic, but has become the one book that no student concerned with the philosophy of education today should leave unread. Dewey said in 1930 that Democracy and Education, was for many years the one [book] in which my philosophy . . . was most fully expounded.
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Deschooling Societyby Ivan IllichISBN 0060910461 (0-06-091046-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deschooling Society'Book summary:In this bold and provocative book, the author of Tools For Conviviality urges a radical examination of our modern schooling institutions which have failed to meet individual human needs in the name of "progress," and offers exciting suggestions for reform. [via]
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Deschooling Societyby Marion BoyarsISBN 0714508799 (0-7145-0879-9)
Softcover, Marion Boyars
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deschooling Society'Book summary:I bought this book for one of my classes and never even opened it. [via]
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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schoolingby John Taylor GattoISBN 0865714487 (0-86571-448-7)
Softcover, New Society Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling'Book summary:Strong words from the New York State Teacher of the Year! Twenty-six years of award-winning teaching have led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental school does little but teach young people to follow orders. Dumbing Us Down offers a radical critique of public schooling, and suggests a guerilla curriculum of daily involvement in our communities. [via]
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- Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling: ISBN 086571231X (0-86571-231-X)
Softcover, Consortium Book Sales & Dist - Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling: ISBN 0865712301 (0-86571-230-1)
Hardcover, New Society Pub - Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum Of Compulsory Schooling: ISBN 086571519X (0-86571-519-X)
Hardcover, New Society Pub - Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling: ISBN 0865714487 (0-86571-448-7)
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The Educated Child: A Parent's Guide from Preschool Through Eighth Gradeby Chester E. Finn, William J. Bennett, John T.E. CribbISBN 0684872722 (0-684-87272-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Educated Child: A Parent's Guide from Preschool Through Eighth Grade'Book summary:William J. Bennett, that doyen of common sense who brought us The Book of Virtues, has returned to the topic of child rearing, delivering a massive canon on the education of young children. He joins fellow veterans of the U.S. Department of Education Chester E. Finn Jr. and John T.E. Cribb Jr. in offering a traditional, back-to-basics resource for parents. The Educated Child is a tome to page through and return to as the years go by, with chapters divided by subjects and grade levels. One of the most helpful aspects of the guide is its outline of what to expect--or demand, in some cases--in the K-8 essentials. The writers list book titles, historic dates, science topics, and other issues that should be covered, borrowing heavily from E.D. Hirsch's Core Knowledge Series, the fact-specific book series that begins with What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know.
But Bennett et al.'s take on education goes further, with the authors weighing in on such controversial topics as sex education, TV, the Internet, self-esteem, and school uniforms with statements that largely reflect their conservative reputations. They also stick to the insistence that Western culture be emphasized in American classrooms. In some cases, however, the three don't always agree--acknowledging diverging views on year-round education, for instance. Some of what they cover is basic, instinctive stuff: we don't need another guide telling us to talk to our children about their school day. But there's valuable advice, too, such as how to save your child from a bad teacher and what questions to ask in a parent-teacher conference. For parents puzzled or overwhelmed by what the authors refer to as "the blob" of the education bureaucracy, The Educated Child can be a helpful insiders' view from those who once governed the biggest blob of all. --Jodi Mailander Farrell [via]
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The Educated Child : A Parents Guide from Preschool Through Eighth Gradeby William J. Bennett, Finn, Chester E., Jr., Cribb, John T. E., Jr.ISBN 0684833492 (0-684-83349-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Educated Child : A Parents Guide from Preschool Through Eighth Grade'Book summary:William J. Bennett, that doyen of common sense who brought us The Book of Virtues, has returned to the topic of child rearing, delivering a massive canon on the education of young children. He joins fellow veterans of the U.S. Department of Education Chester E. Finn Jr. and John T.E. Cribb Jr. in offering a traditional, back-to-basics resource for parents. The Educated Child is a tome to page through and return to as the years go by, with chapters divided by subjects and grade levels. One of the most helpful aspects of the guide is its outline of what to expect--or demand, in some cases--in the K-8 essentials. The writers list book titles, historic dates, science topics, and other issues that should be covered, borrowing heavily from E.D. Hirsch's Core Knowledge Series, the fact-specific book series that begins with What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know.
But Bennett et al.'s take on education goes further, with the authors weighing in on such controversial topics as sex education, TV, the Internet, self-esteem, and school uniforms with statements that largely reflect their conservative reputations. They also stick to the insistence that Western culture be emphasized in American classrooms. In some cases, however, the three don't always agree--acknowledging diverging views on year-round education, for instance. Some of what they cover is basic, instinctive stuff: we don't need another guide telling us to talk to our children about their school day. But there's valuable advice, too, such as how to save your child from a bad teacher and what questions to ask in a parent-teacher conference. For parents puzzled or overwhelmed by what the authors refer to as "the blob" of the education bureaucracy, The Educated Child can be a helpful insiders' view from those who once governed the biggest blob of all. --Jodi Mailander Farrell [via]
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Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Yearby Esme Raji CodellISBN 1565122798 (1-56512-279-8)
Softcover, Algonquin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year'Book summary:Esmé Raji Codell has written a funny, hip diary filled with one-liners and unadorned thoughts that speak volumes about the raw, emotional life of a first-year teacher. Like Ally McBeal in the classroom, the miniskirted and idealistic Codell sometimes fantasizes her career is a musical. Her inner-city Chicago elementary school fades to black as the lunch lady strikes an arabesque or a struggling student performs the dance of the dying swan, all set to her interior soundtrack. (Tina Turner's "Funkier Than a Mosquita's Tweeter" echoes whenever her idea-stealing, dimwitted principal harangues her.) She's a rash, petite, white lady who roller-skates through the halls and insists that her fifth-graders call her "Madame Esmé." But it's not all fun and games: she introduces us to children who fling their desks and apologize in tears, and at one point, after reporting a disruptive student to her mother, who subsequently thrashes the young girl, she dry heaves into her classroom's trash can.
Codell's 24-year-old voice is loud and clear ("Serious gross out," she writes after the scorned principal hugs her), though, on the principle that kids say the darnedest things, she often simply repeats their comments for comic effect. She's got sass, maybe too much self-confidence at times, and though there's no deep introspection in Educating Esmé, you'll be convinced her 10-year-old charges emerge the better for knowing her. --Jodi Mailander Farrell [via]
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Emileby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 1419117688 (1-4191-1768-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emile'Book summary:The MacMahons are the central characters and even more so when Helen the wife & mother disappears..everyone assumes that she has drowned in the lake.Thus beginsa tangles,touching,& sometimes tragis story of love,loss & misunderstanding. [via]
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Emile of Jean Jacques Rousseauby William BoydISBN 0807711071 (0-8077-1107-1)
Softcover, Teachers College Pr
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Emile or Educationby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 0460015184 (0-460-01518-4)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emile or Education'Book summary:This philosophical romance called by Lord Morley 'one of the seminal books' and by others 'the child's charter,' has a new introduction by Andre Coutet de Monvel, Professor of French Literature, Institut Francais du Royaume-Uni. The work 'has been the inspirational source of every great educational reformer since the eighteenth century,' says Proffesor Boutet de Monvel but its influence has extended far beyond the confines of education, and its effect upon the ideas of several generations has covered a much wider sphere. Emile became indeed one of the major textbooks of the French Evolution and of European Romanticism, and Mirabeau ranked it among the masterpieces of the age. [via]
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Emile: Or Treatise on Educationby Jean Jaques Rousseau, William H. PayneISBN 1591021111 (1-59102-111-1)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emile: Or Treatise on Education'Book summary:Two hundred years before Jean Piaget did a twenty year longitudinal study of his children, Rousseau did this longitudinal study of an imaginary child. This novel is a story of how Rousseau would have raised such a child placed in his charge. As full-time governor of Emile, Rousseau begins his study, not with the intent of discovering how the boy would grow into manhood, but with the conscious intent of shaping and controlling Emile's maturation. [via]
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Emile: Or, On Educationby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 0465019315 (0-465-01931-5)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emile or on Education'Book summary:Two hundred years before Jean Piaget did a twenty year longitudinal study of his children, Rousseau did this longitudinal study of an imaginary child. This novel is a story of how Rousseau would have raised such a child placed in his charge. As full-time governor of Emile, Rousseau begins his study, not with the intent of discovering how the boy would grow into manhood, but with the conscious intent of shaping and controlling Emile's maturation. [via]
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Emile Ou De L'Educationby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Francois Richard, Pierre Richard, Tanguy L'AminotISBN 2844310117 (2-84431-011-7)
Hardcover, Garnier
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emile Ou De L'Education'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Emile, Julie and Other Writingsby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 0812000625 (0-8120-0062-5)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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The End of Education: Redefining the Value of Schoolby Neil PostmanISBN 0679750312 (0-679-75031-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School'Book summary: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. [via]
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Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think and What We Can Do About Itby Jane M. HealyISBN 0684856204 (0-684-85620-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think and What We Can Do About It'Book summary:Is today's fast-paced media culture creating a toxic environment for our children's brains?
In this landmark, bestselling assessment tracing the roots of America's escalating crisis in education, Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., examines how television, video games, and other components of popular culture compromise our children's ability to concentrate and to absorb and analyze information. Drawing on neuropsychological research and an analysis of current educational practices, Healy presents in clear, understandable language:
-- How growing brains are physically shaped by experience
-- Why television programs -- even supposedly educational shows like Sesame Street -- develop "habits of mind" that place children at a disadvantage in school
-- Why increasing numbers of children are diagnosed with attention deficit disorder
-- How parents and teachers can make a critical difference by making children good learners from the day they are born [via]
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Endangered Minds: Why Our Children Don't Thinkby Jane M. HealyISBN 067174920X (0-671-74920-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Endangered Minds: Why Our Children Don't Think'Book summary:First published in 1990 and now a classic in its field, and more relevant than ever before, Endangered Minds lays bare the roots of America's escalating crisis in education, presenting clear, scientifically-based explanations for why children today are less able to concentrate, less able to absorb and analyze information, and less able literally to think than previous generations. Arguing that the electronic media, fast-paced lifestyles, and current educational practice all contribute to this decline, Jane M. Healy calls for bold reform in the classroom and offers concrete advice on what parents can do at home -- including carefully monitoring their children's television watching -- to rescue the minds of this and future generations. [via]
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Experience and Educationby John DeweyISBN 0684838281 (0-684-83828-1)
Softcover, Free Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Experience and Education'Book summary:Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position in educational philosophy), this book demonstrates how Dewey reformulated his ideas as a result of his intervening experience with the progressive schools and in the light of the criticisms his theories had received.
Analyzing both "traditional" and "progressive" education, Dr. Dewey here insists that neither the old nor the new education is adequate and that each is miseducative because neither of them applies the principles of a carefully developed philosophy of experience. Many pages of this volume illustrate Dr. Dewey's ideas for a philosophy of experience and its relation to education. He particularly urges that all teachers and educators looking for a new movement in education should think in terms of the deeped and larger issues of education rather than in terms of some divisive "ism" about education, even such an "ism" as "progressivism." His philosophy, here expressed in its most essential, most readable form, predicates an American educational system that respects all sources of experience, on that offers a true learning situation that is both historical and social, both orderly and dynamic.
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The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacherby Harry K. WongISBN 0962936006 (0-9629360-0-6)
Softcover, Harry K Wong Pubn
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher'Book summary:Used by new and veteran teachers, college instructors, and administrators, this is a beautifully designed book on classroom management, student achievement, and teacher effectiveness. Color graphics. [via]
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How Children Failby John Caldwell HoltISBN 0201484021 (0-201-48402-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Children Fail'Book summary:First published in the mid 1960s, How Children Fail began an education reform movement that continues today. In his 1982 edition, John Holt added new insights into how children investigate the world, into the perennial problems of classroom learning, grading, testing, and into the role of the trust and authority in every learning situation. His understanding of children, the clarity of his thought, and his deep affection for children have made both How Children Fail and its companion volume, How Children Learn, enduring classics.[via]More editions of How Children Fail:
- How Children Fail: ISBN 0385284233 (0-385-28423-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - How Children Fail: ISBN 0440538378 (0-440-53837-8)
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How Children Learnby John Caldwell HoltISBN 0201484048 (0-201-48404-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Children Learn'Book summary:This is a book where John Holt uses anecdotal observations that question assumptions about how children acquire knowledge and learning skills. [via]
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How to Read a Bookby Mortimer Jerome Adler, Charles Lincoln Van DorenISBN 1567310109 (1-56731-010-9)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Read a Book'Book summary:How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them -- from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading, you learn how to pigeonhole a book, X-ray it, extract the author's message, criticize. You are taught the different reading techniques for reading practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science. Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests whereby you can measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension and speed. [via]
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An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn'tby William Wilson, Judy JonesISBN 0345468902 (0-345-46890-2)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't'Book summary:When it was originally published in 1987, An Incomplete Education became a surprise bestseller. Now this instant classic has been completely updated, outfitted with a whole new arsenal of indispensable knowledge on global affairs, popular culture, economic trends, scientific principles, and modern arts. Here's your chance to brush up on all those subjects you slept through in school, reacquaint yourself with all the facts you once knew (then promptly forgot), catch up on major developments in the world today, and become the Renaissance man or woman you always knew you could be!
How do you tell the Balkans from the Caucasus? What's the difference between fission and fusion? Whigs and Tories? Shiites and Sunnis? Deduction and induction? Why aren't all Shakespearean comedies necessarily thigh-slappers? What are transcendental numbers and what are they good for? What really happened in Plato's cave? Is postmodernism dead or just having a bad hair day? And for extra credit, when should you use the adjective continual and when should you use continuous?
An Incomplete Education answers these and thousands of other questions with incomparable wit, style, and clarity. American Studies, Art History, Economics, Film, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Science, and World History: Here's the bottom line on each of these major disciplines, distilled to its essence and served up with consummate flair.
In this revised edition you'll find a vitally expanded treatment of international issues, reflecting the seismic geopolitical upheavals of the past decade, from economic free-fall in South America to Central Africa's world war, and from violent radicalization in the Muslim world to the crucial trade agreements that are defining globalization for the twenty-first century. [via]More editions of An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't:
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The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learnby Diane RavitchISBN 1400030641 (1-4000-3064-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn'Book summary:The impulse in the 1960s and 70s to achieve fairness and a balanced perspective in our nations textbooks and standardized exams was undeniably necessary and commendable. Then how could it have gone so terribly wrong? Acclaimed education historian Diane Ravitch answers this question in her informative and alarming book, The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn. Author of 7 books, Ravitch served as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education from 1991 to 1993. Her expertise and her 30-year commitment to education lend authority and urgency to this important book, which describes in copious detail how pressure groups from the political right and left have wrested control of the language and content of textbooks and standardized exams, often at the expense of the truth (in the case of history), of literary quality (in the case of literature), and of education in general. Like most people involved in education, Ravitch did not realize "that educational materials are now governed by an intricate set of rules to screen out language and topics that might be considered controversial or offensive." In this clear-eyed critique, she is an unapologetic challenger of the ridiculous and damaging extremes to which bias guidelines and sensitivity training have been taken by the federal government, the states, and textbook publishers.
In a multi-page sampling of rejected test passages, we discover that "in the new meaning of bias, it its considered biased to acknowledge that lack of sight is a disability," that children who live in urban areas cannot understand passages about the country, that the Aesop fable about a vain (female) fox and a flattering (male) crow promotes gender bias. As outrageous as many of the examples are, they do not appear particularly dangerous. However, as the illustrations of abridgment, expurgation, and bowdlerization mount, the reader begins to understand that our educational system is indeed facing a monumental crisis of distortion and censorship. Ravtich ends her book with three suggestions of how to counter this disturbing tendency. Sadly, however, in the face of the overwhelming tide of misinformation that has already been entrenched in the system, her suggestions provide cold comfort. --Silvana Tropea [via]More editions of The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn:
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Lies My Teacher Told Meby James W. LoewenISBN 0613706471 (0-613-70647-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lies My Teacher Told Me'Book summary:The national bestseller and winner of the American Book Award, thoroughly updated for the first time since its initial publication to include textbooks written since 2000 and featuring a new chapter on what textbooks get wrong about 9/11 and Iraq.
Since its initial publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell one million copies in its various editions.
What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education" beginning with the pre-Columbian period and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the My Lai massacre.
In this revised and updated edition, James Loewen surveys six new high school history textbooks written since the first edition of Lies was published. In his inimitable style, he adds material to each chapter noting where the new books have gotten more accurate and where they are still fatally flawed. Loewen also writes at length about the way these textbooks treat the 2001 terrorist attacks and our "response" in Iraq. In fact, while researching this new edition Loewen made the front page of the New York Times in 2006 when he discovered that publishers were passing off as original virtually identical passages on important recent events in a number of history books. And in yet another example of the failure of American history textbooks, he found that "celebrity" historians whose names appear as authors in some cases have never read, let alone written, the texts attributed to them. [via]More editions of Lies My Teacher Told Me:
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrongby James W. LoewenISBN 156584100X (1-56584-100-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong'Book summary:Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship
Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past. In ten powerful chapters, Loewen reveals that:
- The United States dropped three times as many tons of explosives in Vietman as it dropped in all theaters of World War II, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Ponce de Leon went to Florida mainly to capture Native Americans as slaves for Hispaniola, not to find the mythical fountain of youth
- Woodrow Wilson, known as a progressive leader, was in fact a white supremacist who personally vetoed a clause on racial equality in the Covenant of the League of Nations
- The first colony to legalize slavery was not Virginia but Massachusetts
From the truth about Columbus's historic voyages to an honest evaluation of our national leaders, Loewen revives our history, restoring to it the vitality and relevance it truly possesses. [via]
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Pedagogy of the Oppressedby Paulo Freire, Myra Bergman RamosISBN 0826412769 (0-8264-1276-9)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed'Book summary:Mild underlining, highlighting, brackets. Minimal shelfwear. [via]
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Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Educationby Doug WilsonISBN 0891075836 (0-89107-583-6)
Softcover, Good News Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education'Book summary:Public education in America has run into hard times. Even many within the system admit that it is failing. While many factors contribute, Douglas Wilson lays much blame on the idea that education can take place in a moral vacuum. It is not possible for education to be nonreligious, deliberately excluding the basic questions about life. All education builds on the foundation of someone's worldview. Education deals with fundamental questions that require religious answers. Learning to read and write is simply the process of acquiring the tools to ask and answer such questions.
A second reason for the failure of public schools, Wilson feels, is modern teaching methods. He argues for a return to a classical education, firm discipline, and the requirement of hard work.
Often educational reforms create new problems that must be solved down the road. This book presents alternatives that have proved workable in experience.
"Good at diagnosing our educational afflictions, Douglas Wilson is still better at finding remedies. His Logos School provides a model, a practical design, for the restoration in the curriculum of Christian humanism--as contrasted with what Christopher Dawson called secular humanism." --Russell Kirk, D. Litt., editor, The University Bookman
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schoolsby Jonathan KozolISBN 0060974990 (0-06-097499-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools'Book summary:A searing, eye-opening exposé of the inequality built into America's public education system, written by Jonathan Kozol, the National Book Award-winning author of Death at an Early Age. Traveling the most blighted neighborhoods of our country, Kozol discovers a separate and unequal school system for America's less fortunate. [via]
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Summerhillby Alexander Sutherland Neill, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0140209409 (0-14-020940-9)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Summerhill'Book summary:Summerhill is Neill's story of the small experimental school he set up to prove Freedom Works. [via]
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Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Childrearingby Alexander S. NeillISBN 0671790013 (0-671-79001-3)
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Summerhill School: A New View of Childhoodby A.S. Neill, Albert LambISBN 0312141378 (0-312-14137-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood'Book summary:Originally published in 1960, Summerhill became an instant bestseller and a classic volume of education for an entire generation. Now, this thoroughly expanded and revised version of the original Summerhill reinstates the revolutionary "free school" traditions begun by Summerhill's founder A.S. Neill.[via]
As American education lags behind the rest of the world, this new edition is more timely than ever. The children of today face struggles far greater than any previous generation and we, as parents and teachers, must teach them now to make choices for themselves and to learn from the outcome of their decisions.
This classic work yet again invites a new view of childhood and presents an essential treatise that challenges us to rethink our approach to education.More editions of Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood:
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Teacher Man: A Memoirby Frank McCourtISBN 0743243781 (0-7432-4378-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Teacher Man: A Memoir'Book summary:For 30 years Frank McCourt taught high school English in New York City and for much of that time he considered himself a fraud. During these years he danced a delicate jig between engaging the students, satisfying often bewildered administrators and parents, and actually enjoying his job. He tried to present a consistent image of composure and self-confidence, yet he regularly felt insecure, inadequate, and unfocused. After much trial and error, he eventually discovered what was in front of him (or rather, behind him) all along--his own experience. "My life saved my life," he writes. "My students didn't know there was a man up there escaping a cocoon of Irish history and Catholicism, leaving bits of that cocoon everywhere." At the beginning of his career it had never occurred to him that his own dismal upbringing in the slums of Limerick could be turned into a valuable lesson plan. Indeed, his formal training emphasized the opposite. Principals and department heads lectured him to never share anything personal. He was instructed to arouse fear and awe, to be stern, to be impossible to please--but he couldn't do it. McCourt was too likable, too interested in the students' lives, and too willing to reveal himself for their benefit as well as his own. He was a kindred spirit with more questions than answers: "Look at me: wandering late bloomer, floundering old fart, discovering in my forties what my students knew in their teens."
As he did so adroitly in his previous memoirs, Angela's Ashes and 'Tis, McCourt manages to uncover humor in nearly everything. He writes about hilarious misfires, as when he suggested (during his teacher's exam) that the students write a suicide note, as well as unorthodox assignments that turned into epiphanies for both teacher and students. A dazzling writer with a unique and compelling voice, McCourt describes the dignity and difficulties of a largely thankless profession with incisive, self-deprecating wit and uncommon perception. It may have taken him three decades to figure out how to be an effective teacher, but he ultimately saved his most valuable lesson for himself: how to be his own man. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedomby Bell HooksISBN 0415908086 (0-415-90808-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom'Book summary:"After reading Teaching to Transgress I am once again struck by bell hooks's never-ending, unquiet intellectual energy, an energy that makes her radical and loving." -- Paulo Freire
In Teaching to Transgress,bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal.
bell hooks speakes to the heart of education today: how can we rethink teaching practices in the age of multiculturalism? What do we do about teachers who do not want to teach, and students who do not want to learn? How should we deal with racism and sexism in the classroom?
Full of passion and politics, Teaching to Transgress combines a practical knowledge of the classroom with a deeply felt connection to the world of emotions and feelings. This is the rare book about teachers and students that dares to raise questions about eros and rage, grief and reconciliation, and the future of teaching itself.
"To educate is the practice of freedom," writes bell hooks, "is a way of teaching anyone can learn." Teaching to Transgress is the record of one gifted teacher's struggle to make classrooms work.
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The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Educationby Grace LlewellynISBN 1862041040 (1-86204-104-0)
Softcover, Thorsons Element
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education'Book summary:You won't find this book on a school library shelf--it's pure teenage anarchy. While many homeschooling authors hem and haw that learning at home isn't for everyone, this manifesto practically tells kids they're losers if they do otherwise. With the exception of a forwarding note to parents, this book is written entirely for teenagers, and the first 75 pages explain why school is a waste of time. Grace Llewellyn insists that people learn better when they are self-motivated and not confined by school walls. Instead of homeschooling, which connotes setting up a school at home, Llewellyn prefers "unschooling," a learning method with no structure or formal curriculum. There are tips here you won't hear from a school guidance counselor. Llewellyn urges kids to take a vacation--at least for a week--after quitting school to purge its influence. "Throw darts at a picture of your school" or "Make a bonfire of old worksheets," she advises. She spends an entire chapter on the gentle art of persuading parents that this is a good idea. Then she gets serious. Llewellyn urges teens to turn off the TV, get outside, and turn to their local libraries, museums, the Internet, and other resources for information. She devotes many chapters to books and suggestions for teaching yourself science, math, social sciences, English, foreign languages, and the arts. She also includes advice on jobs and getting into college, assuring teens that, contrary to what they've been told in school, they won't be flipping burgers for the rest of their days if they drop out.
Llewellyn is a former middle-school English teacher, and she knows her audience well. Her formula for making the transition from traditional school to unschooling is accompanied by quotes on freedom and free thought from radical thinkers such as Steve Biko and Ralph Waldo Emerson. And Llewellyn is not above using slang. She capitalizes words to add emphasis, as in the "Mainstream American Suburbia-Think" she blames most schools for perpetuating. Some of her attempts to appeal to young minds ring a bit corny. She weaves through several chapters an allegory about a baby whose enthusiasm is squashed by a sterile, unnatural environment, and tells readers to "learn to be a human bean and not a mashed potato." But her underlying theme--think for yourself--should appeal to many teenagers. --Jodi Mailander Farrell [via]
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The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Hadby Susan Wise BauerISBN 0393050947 (0-393-05094-7)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had'Book summary:An engaging, accessible guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition.
Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven't because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise. In her previous book, The Well-Trained Mind, the author provided a road map of classical education for parents wishing to home-school their children, and that book is now the premier resource for home-schoolers. In this new book, Bauer takes the same elements and techniques and adapts them to the use of adult readers who want both enjoyment and self-improvement from the time they spend reading.
The Well-Educated Mind offers brief, entertaining histories of five literary genresfiction, autobiography, history, drama, and poetryaccompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type. The annotated lists at the end of each chapterranging from Cervantes to A. S. Byatt, Herodotus to Laurel Thatcher Ulrichpreview recommended reading and encourage readers to make vital connections between ancient traditions and contemporary writing.
The Well-Educated Mind reassures those readers who worry that they read too slowly or with below-average comprehension. If you can understand a daily newspaper, there's no reason you can't read and enjoy Shakespeare's Sonnets or Jane Eyre. But no one should attempt to read the "Great Books" without a guide and a plan. Susan Wise Bauer will show you how to allocate time to your reading on a regular basis; how to master a difficult argument; how to make personal and literary judgments about what you read; how to appreciate the resonant links among texts within a genrewhat does Anna Karenina owe to Madame Bovary?and also between genres. Followed carefully, the advice in The Well-Educated Mind will restore and expand the pleasure of the written word. [via]More editions of The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had:
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The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Homeby Jessie WiseISBN 0393059278 (0-393-05927-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home'Book summary:"Outstanding...should be on every home educator's reference bookshelf."Homeschooling Today
This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school. Two veteran home educators outline the classical pattern of educationthe triviumwhich organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child's mind: the elementary school "grammar stage," the middle school "logic stage," and the high school "rhetoric stage." Using the trivium as your model, you'll be able to instruct your child in all levels of reading, writing, history, geography, mathematics, science, foreign languages, rhetoric, logic, art, and music, regardless of your own aptitude in those subjects.
Newly revised and updated, The Well-Trained Mind includes detailed book lists with complete ordering information; up-to-date listings of resources, publications, and Internet links; and useful contacts.
An excellent resource for any family with a desire to incorporate a classical education in their home, whether as a curriculum or as a reference. (Educational Freedom Press) [via]More editions of The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home:
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The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Homeby S. Wise Bauer, Jessie WiseISBN 0393047520 (0-393-04752-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home'Book summary:Teach your child at home or supplement his or her classroom learning --this book provides you with the techniques, curriculum, and resources necessary to ensure that your child's education is the best it can be. As a parent, you worry about your child's education. With thirty students per classroom, even the most dedicated teachers often can't give each student the individual attention so urgently needed, and neither teachers nor parents can control the social environment of many schools. Is your child getting lost in the system, becoming bored, losing his or her natural eagerness to learn? Maybe it's time to take charge of your child's education --by doing it yourself. This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school; one that will train him or her to read, to think, to understand, to be well-rounded and curious about learning. Through a language-intensive process that organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child's mind, your child will receive the complete education that today's overcrowded schools are often unable to provide. You do have control over what and how your child learns; The Well-Trained Mind will give you the tools you'll need to teach him or her with confidence and success. [via]
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Emile ou de l'Educationby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 2080701177 (2-08-070117-7)
Softcover, Flammarion et Cie
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emile ou de l'Education'Book summary:628pages. 18x10x3cm. Poche. [via]
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Emilioby Jean-Jacques RouseauISBN 8471662663 (84-7166-266-3)
Softcover, Edaf Antillas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emilio'Book summary:Rousseau es una fuerza que se anticipa a su época para crear ideas y situaciones, y para señalar rumbos educativos en un mundo sumergido en antiguas costumbre y tabúes. Leyendo a este Emilio espléndido, libre, amante de la vida, asistimos a un espectáculo sorprendente de descubrimientos pedagógicos aún valederos. [via]
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