education-theory

In this collection of the best writing on teaching and teachers from the HARVARD EDUCATIONAL REVIEW, authors discuss the multiple demands, distractions, desires, and dilemmas that teachers face in their daily work. The Complex World of Teaching refuses to reduce teaching to a set of recipes, or to talk about teaching abstracted from practice. Provocative articles by leading scholars complement reflective, personal essays by teachers to illustrate the intricate webs of relationships and responsibilities that teachers manage constantly as they teach. Sections provide both theoretical and practical insights into the inner worlds of teachers and students and show how skillful teachers manage to create effective learning environments at the intersections of these worlds. The combination of theoretical articles and personal essays by practitioners make this book a perfect choice for teacher education courses.

"A valuable-and surprisingly vivid-portrayal of the experience of teachers and students, both in the classroom and beyond it. Teachers everywhere will be grateful." -Jonathan Kozol, Author of Amazing Grace

"A remarkable mixture of theory and practice....This work is vital for teachers exploring themes from everyday life and connections between the inside and outside worlds of teaching and learning. It also reflects the tensions between these two worlds, and how schools provide the place where these tensions play out." -Betty Rosa, Superintendent, New York City Community School District 8

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The Conflict Analysis Training workbook has brought tremendous emotional healing to myself and to others. It led me to portray every conflict within the course of my life, and each conflict's intensity and characteristics - by using simple text and drawings.

While the workbook did not offer me the emotional resources to attain deep healing and real conflict resolution - it organized my personal issues, so that I could invest my energy with more intelligence, discipline and effectiveness toward resolving my conflicts, one by one.

Even more, it made me realize that to attain true happiness in life - I must mend every relationship in my life that I have broken. It revealed the painful, but healing truth that no relationship can be swept under the rug.

To be truly happy - I must be responsible for everyone. That realization is the greatest gift Albert Levis's training manual has given me: thank you!

This is a powerful training guide - not for the faint of heart. But if you are committed to deep personal change, and are willing to take the risks to attain it - this manual is essential.

This book is a must for any serious student of intelligence, intelligence tests, and intelligence research.

Sharan has done a wonderful service for all policymakers and practitioners in the feild. This is a bbok that provides coherent description of Cooperative Learning.

Counseling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents, Third Edition has been a valuable addition to my personal llibrary. As a graduate student, I am constantly in search of state-of-the-art resources that I feel will enhance my skills once I begin to practice. Every grad. student/novice counselor needs to be aware of the major schools of thought as theory drives practice. This book offers the reader the chance to become familiar with the latest thinking and practice using the seven major approaches to counseling and psychotherapeutic interventions with children and adolescents.

I have used this book many times over in writing research reports and it has served me well. This text is chock-full of useful information; everything from multicultural counseling to ethical issues. I would have liked to see more written on the areas of schizophrenia, and suicide.

Although a bit pricey, this book is valuable as a supplemental or main text for the student, and reference for the novice therapist.

This book forces educators to consider what it is we do - and whether or not we are on the right path. Of course, most academic books will find fault with American education, but this does a great service by questioning the basic foundation of American education. She does this by asking whether or not we offer a truly liberal education and then, to double the blow she lays out what we must do if we hope to get there.

Art Pearl and Tony Knight have written a valuable book for people interested in providing a public education which prepares all students to become true citizens, active participants in building a democratic sosciety.

They argue that to be successful, we must have a theory about education, not just an instructional method or curriculum standards. Their theory describes the following important elements in a democratic classroom:

the use of persuasion and negotiation rather than prescription and edict in developing policy and enforcing rules,

the focus on relevance in the classroom: working to ensure that the focus is on solving problems rather than teaching subjects and that students are engaged in learning by the way material is presented.

the fundamental belief that all students are competent and that all students have not just a right to equal opportunity but to equal encouragement. This, in my opinion, is one of the most powerful points in the book. Pearl and Knight write eloquently about the damage done by deficit thinking in our schools, and how we can only repair that damage by developing strategies and practice which meet all students where they are and allow them an opportunity to move forward and develop their individual competence.

They have a very challenging section on the role of democracy in school government and the classroom. It deserves real attention from school boards, administrators and teachers.

Finally, they point to the individual classroom as the arena of change. Efforts must be made to develop the democratic classroom based on the unique culture and geography of each shool. No two democratic classrooms will look exactly the same.

It's probably one of the best books I've read on teaching. Right up there with Deborah Meier's "The Power of Their Ideas".

I've read this book quickly and now plan to use it intensely for my grad studies and my work in public health. Excellent practical advice for those of us on the front line who need to influence health behaviors of individuals and groups. Practical advice which is soundly based on theory - adding to the validity of the authors' recommendations.

Dr. Bender offers a well balanced view of online discussion as a teaching tool in asynchronous education. Clear, concise, practical and well documented concepts and applications fill this easily read textbook. The last section of the book provides a wonderful overview of the hot buttons on assessment in the online environment. Regardless of whether you are already implementing online discussion or if you are just considering online discussion as a new tool to add to your arsenal, you will find helpful insight in this book.