Education
Zapp! In Education: How Empowerment Can Improve the Quality of Instruction, and Student and Teacher Satisfaction
In this dynamic, helpful, guide William C. Byham takes his Zapp! empowerment principles and adapts it for the classroom with workable, hands-on advice for how educators can get their students (and themselves) excited about education again. He shows how to get students to take responsibility for their own progress by involving them in decision-making; encouraging them to think for themselves; and fostering trust, creativity, and hunger for new challenges. Innovative,… More >>
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Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life
The question of what living is for—of what one should care about and why—is the most important question a person can ask. Yet under the influence of the modern research ideal, our colleges and universities have expelled this question from their classrooms, judging it unfit for organized study. In this eloquent and carefully considered book, Tony Kronman explores why this has happened and calls for the restoration of life’s most important question to an honored… More >>
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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
bell hooks, one of America’s leading black intellectuals, shares her philosophy of the classroom, offering ideas about teaching that fundamentally rethink democratcic participation…. More >>
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