Transforming Alternative Education

This book is about viewing alternative education through the lens of being an alternative education student and then being a turnaround leader working with schools to transform alternative education programs. This book celebrates the successful work of many alternative schools, making a difference in the lives of students, and highlights the areas in which additional work is needed.

A ten year project in the making, Alternative Education for Parents and Teachers is a gleaning of the best and most successful teaching techniques and approaches. These practical education methods and strategies gained from years of knowledge and experience in the field work amazingly. From mainstream elementary classes to high school alternative programs for behavioral students, students with and without disabilities, here are twenty solid methods, strategies, and practices which will make the reader a better parent and/or teacher. These methods succeeded with some of the most difficult students around and they will work with most any child or student. The insights and practical ideas learned by the author through his teaching career are presented within stories and experiences which are enlightening, humorous, touching, and at times, shocking. The classrooms come alive as the reader learns with the student and understands what makes students, children, and people tick, how to effectively connect to them, and how to help them learn and grow. Pick up the book, pick a chapter, and use the practice: it will improve skills. Whether parent, teacher, or one who wants to know superior ways to help people learn, it's nearly impossible not to advance in these roles after reading Alternative Education for Parents and Teachers, and more than a few good laughs will be enjoyed along the way.

This book offers a comparative analysis of alternative education in the UK, focusing on learning spaces that cater for children and young people. It constitutes one of the first book-length explorations of alternative learning spaces outside mainstream education - including Steiner, human scale and forest schools, care farms and homeschooling.Based on original research with teachers, parents and young people at over 50 learning spaces, Geographies of alternative education demonstrates the importance of a geographical lens for understanding alternative education. In so doing, it develops contemporary theories of autonomy, emotion/affect, habit, intergenerational relations and life-itself. The book will appeal to academics and postgraduates in the fields of geography, sociology, education and youth studies. Given ongoing concerns about the state's role in providing children's education, and an increase in the number of alternative education providers in the UK and elsewhere, the book also highlights several critical questions for policy makers and practitioners.

This book summarises and discusses key findings from the learning sciences, shedding light on the cognitive and social processes that can be used to redesign classrooms to make them highly effective learning environments.

Dr Fohle Lygunda li-M provides a thorough analysis of missiological teaching in theological institutions in Africa, with special reference to ten Christian universities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His detailed examination of current teaching of mission theory and practice builds a solid foundation for the articulation of a new paradigm of missiological education. In this book, Dr Lygunda presents the case for a transformed approach to raising up seminarians who are equipped to lead indigenous missional churches that will fulfil the Great Commission in their own communities and beyond their national borders.

This is a unique collection of leading examples of education grounded in alternative philosophies and cultures – from initiatives to create more democratic schools, through Quaker, Buddhist, Islamic, Montessori and Steiner/Waldorf schools, to Maori and First Nations education in Canada and Palestinian Jewish schools in Israel.

This edited volume shares and advances authentic possibilities for education to fulfil its promise of transforming lives. It contains specific sections on enabling success in learning; identity, well-being and learning; and collaboration and partnership.

This anthology places art at the center of meaningful urban education reform. Providing a fresh perspective on urban education, the contributors describe a positive, asset-based community development model designed to tap into the teaching/learning potential already available in urban cities. Rather than focusing on a lack of resources, this innovative approach shows teachers how to use the cultural resources at hand to engage students in the processes of critical, imaginative investigation. Featuring personal narratives that reflect the authors' vast experience and passion for teaching art, this resource: * Offers a new vision for urban schools that reflects current directions of urban renewal and transformation. * Highlights successful models of visual art education for the K 12 classroom. * Describes meaningful, socially concerned teaching practices. *Includes unit plans, a glossary of terms, and online resources. Contributors include Olivia Gude, James Haywood R