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On Becoming an Educated Person
Author | : Virginia Voeks |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Study Aids |
ISBN | : MINN:31951000535390W |
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What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated
Author | : Alfie Kohn |
Publsiher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2004-05-15 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0807032670 |
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Few writers ask us to question our fundamental assumptions about education as provocatively as Alfie Kohn. Time magazine has called him'perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores.' And the Washington Post says he is 'the most energetic and charismatic figure standing in the way of a major federal effort to make standardized curriculums and tests a fact of life in every U.S. school.' In this new collection of essays, Kohn takes on some of the most important and controversial topics in education of the last few years. His central focus is on the real goals of education-a topic, he argues, that we systematically ignore while lavishing attention on misguided models of learning and counterproductive techniques of motivation. The shift to talking about goals yields radical conclusions and wonderfully pungent essays that only Alfie Kohn could have written. From the title essay's challenge to conventional, conservative definitions of a good education to essays on standards and testing and grades that tally the severe educational costs of overemphasizing a narrow conception of achievement, Kohn boldly builds on his earlier work and writes for a wide audience. Kohn's new book will be greeted with enthusiasm by his many readers and by any teacher or parent looking for a refreshing perspective on today's debates about schools.
An Educated Man
Author | : David Rosenberg |
Publsiher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2011-05-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781582437286 |
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A magisterial project: a dual biography of the preeminent figures of Judeo–Christian civilization overturning conventional views of Moses and Jesus as humble men of faith. By reanimating the biographies of Moses and Jesus in their historical context, Rosenberg reads their narrative as a cultural—rather than religious—endeavor. He charges that Moses and Jesus were "educated" men, steeped in the literature and scholarship of their day. There were no old or new testaments for them, only a long history of writing and writers. When scholars and clergy quote Moses and Jesus, they routinely neglect to inform us that Jesus is quoting the Hebrew Bible, often in the manner that Moses quoted Egyptian medical texts. The remarkable ability of both men to recall and transform a wide range of sources is overlooked. Where did they get these profound educations? Part biography, part critical analysis, An Educated Man challenges us to envision what defines "an educated man or woman" today—and how understanding religious history is crucial to it. Rosenberg offers a sympathetic approach to why we need Judeo–Christianity—and ultimately convinces us that the life of Jesus is unthinkable without the model of Moses before him.
Educated
Author | : Tara Westover |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2018-02-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781443452502 |
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For readers of The Glass Castle and Wild, a stunning new memoir about family, loss and the struggle for a better future #1 International Bestseller Tara Westover was seventeen when she first set foot in a classroom. Instead of traditional lessons, she grew up learning how to stew herbs into medicine, scavenging in the family scrap yard and helping her family prepare for the apocalypse. She had no birth certificate and no medical records and had never been enrolled in school. Westover’s mother proved a marvel at concocting folk remedies for many ailments. As Tara developed her own coping mechanisms, little by little, she started to realize that what her family was offering didn’t have to be her only education. Her first day of university was her first day in school—ever—and she would eventually win an esteemed fellowship from Cambridge and graduate with a PhD in intellectual history and political thought.
The Educated Person
Author | : D. G. Mulcahy |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2008-03-27 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780742577824 |
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Liberal education has long been a fascination for scholars in a variety of disciplines and is closely associated with the idea of the educated person. Seen at one time as a matter for colleges and universities, over the years it has become central to the debate surrounding general education in high school and even the earlier grades. Yet so many and varied are the uses of the term 'liberal education' that the question arises of whether and how the idea is any longer a useful or helpful construct. In what way might it speak helpfully to educational challenges we face today? In what ways does it still speak helpfully to educational challenges we face today? In what ways might it be a guide as we search for a better way forward? These are the central questions that are addressed in this book. In doing so, the positions of three theorists—John Henry Newman, Mortimer J. Adler, and Jane Roland Martin—who have written about liberal education in a compelling way and from different perspectives are selected for close analysis. The analysis is built upon to fashion a new ideal of the educated person and a new theory of liberal education.
The Cultural Production of the Educated Person
Author | : Bradley A. Levinson,Douglas E. Foley,Dorothy C. Holland |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Critical pedagogy |
ISBN | : 0791428591 |
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Examines the ways in which cultural practices and knowledges are produced in and out of schools around the world.
Orientation to College
Author | : Elizabeth Steltenpohl,Jane Shipton,Sharon Villines |
Publsiher | : Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : College student orientation |
ISBN | : 0534599583 |
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ORIENTATION TO COLLEGE: A READER ON BECOMING AN EDUCATED PERSON offers a rich collection of articles designed to encourage students to reflect on the meaning of a college education, and to explore the opportunities for personal and professional development offered in college. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach-with readings written by experts in a number of different academic fields, government and industry-this text introduces students to the various dimensions of college, the learning process, and the skills they need to succeed in both college and the workplace.
The Concept of Education International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 17
Author | : R.S. Peters |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2010-02-25 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781135170462 |
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A series of public lectures given at the Institute of Education, University of London provides the nucleus around which this collection, originally published in 1967, is gathered. This collection provides comprehensive coverage of a complex theme which will be of interest to those involved in the fields of philosophy and education alike. Topics covered include:the logical and psychological aspects of learning, the concept of play, rule and routines, teaching and training, philosophical models of teaching.