What is the purpose of education? What kind of people do we want our children to grow up to be? How can we design schools so that students will acquire the skills they’ll need to live fulfilled and productive lives? These are just a few of the questions that renowned educator Dennis Littky explores in The Big Picture: Education Is Everyone’s Business. The schools Littky has created and led over the past 35 years are models for reformers everywhere: small, public schools where the curriculum is » Read more: The Big Picture: Education Is Everyone’s Business – Book Review
The Big Picture: Education Is Everyone’s Business – Book Review
America’s Teachers: An Introduction to Education
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Through clear, accessible writing and the strongest research base and documentation on the market, this edition offers a positive, teacher-centered view of the profession. America’s Teachers: An Introduction to Education, Fifth Edition accurately reflects how teachers themselves feel about their work. With critical and informative material on teaching as an occupation, the foundations of education, and emerging issues affecting today’s classrooms, this textbook … More >>
Documentary Research: In Education, History and the Social Sciences
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The chapters explore a wide range of documentary source material that are available for researchers in the social sciences, and emphasises new approaches to the study of such sources…. More >>