Author: Dan Gartrell
Publisher: National Association for the Education of Young Children
ISBN: 9781928896876
Category : Affective education
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Social and emotional skills children need.
Education for a Civil Society
Author: Dan Gartrell
Publisher: National Association for the Education of Young Children
ISBN: 9781928896876
Category : Affective education
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Social and emotional skills children need.
Publisher: National Association for the Education of Young Children
ISBN: 9781928896876
Category : Affective education
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Social and emotional skills children need.
Making Good Citizens
Author: Diane Ravitch
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300129785
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
divAmericans have reason to be concerned about the condition of American democracy at the start of the twenty-first century. Surveys show that civic participation has declined, cynicism about government has increased, and young people have a weak grasp of the principles that underlie our constitutional system. Crucial questions must be answered: How serious is the situation? What role do schools play in shaping civic behavior? Are current education reform initiatives—such as multiculturalism and school choice—counterproductive? How can schools contribute toward reversing the trend? This volume brings together leading thinkers from a variety of disciplines to probe the relation between a healthy democracy and education. Their original and provocative discussions cut across a range of important topics: the cultivation of democratic values, the formation of social capital in schools and communities, political conflict in a pluralist society, the place of religion in public life, the enduring problems of racial inequality. Gathering together the most current research and thinking on education and civil society, this is a book that deserves the attention of everyone who cares about the quality and future of American democracy./DIV
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300129785
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
divAmericans have reason to be concerned about the condition of American democracy at the start of the twenty-first century. Surveys show that civic participation has declined, cynicism about government has increased, and young people have a weak grasp of the principles that underlie our constitutional system. Crucial questions must be answered: How serious is the situation? What role do schools play in shaping civic behavior? Are current education reform initiatives—such as multiculturalism and school choice—counterproductive? How can schools contribute toward reversing the trend? This volume brings together leading thinkers from a variety of disciplines to probe the relation between a healthy democracy and education. Their original and provocative discussions cut across a range of important topics: the cultivation of democratic values, the formation of social capital in schools and communities, political conflict in a pluralist society, the place of religion in public life, the enduring problems of racial inequality. Gathering together the most current research and thinking on education and civil society, this is a book that deserves the attention of everyone who cares about the quality and future of American democracy./DIV
Civil Society Organizations in Latin American Education
Author: Regina Cortina
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351599437
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Examining the roles, impacts and challenges of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Latin America, this volume provides a broad perspective on the range of strategies these organizations employ and the obstacles they face in advocating for and delivering educational reform. Building on previous research on international and comparative education, development studies, research on social movements and nongovernmental organizations, chapter authors provides new insights about the increasing presence of CSOs in education and offer case studies demonstrating how these organizations‘ missions have evolved over time in Latin America.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351599437
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Examining the roles, impacts and challenges of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Latin America, this volume provides a broad perspective on the range of strategies these organizations employ and the obstacles they face in advocating for and delivering educational reform. Building on previous research on international and comparative education, development studies, research on social movements and nongovernmental organizations, chapter authors provides new insights about the increasing presence of CSOs in education and offer case studies demonstrating how these organizations‘ missions have evolved over time in Latin America.
Nonformal Education and Civil Society in Japan
Author: Kaori H. Okano
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131775512X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Nonformal Education and Civil Society in Japan critically examines an aspect of education that has received little attention to date: intentional teaching and learning activities that occur outside formal schooling. In the last two decades nonformal education has rapidly increased in extent and significance. This is because individual needs for education have become so diverse and rapidly changing that formal education alone is unable to satisfy them. Increasingly diverse demands on education resulted from a combination of transnational migration, heightened human rights awareness, the aging population, and competition in the globalised labour market. Some in the private sector saw this situation as a business opportunity. Others in the civil society volunteered to assist the vulnerable. The rise in nonformal education has also been facilitated by national policy developments since the 1990s. Drawing on case studies, this book illuminates a diverse range of nonformal education activities; and suggests that the nature of the relationship between nonformal education and mainstream schooling has changed. Not only have the two sectors become more interdependent, but the formal education sector increasingly acknowledges nonformal education’s important and necessary roles. These changes signal a significant departure from the past in the overall functioning of Japanese education. The case studies include: neighbourhood homework clubs for migrant children, community-based literacy classes, after-school care programs, sport clubs, alternative schools for long-term absent students, schools for foreigners, training in intercultural competence at universities and corporations, kôminkan (community halls), and lifelong learning for the seniors. This book will appeal to both scholars of Japanese Studies/Asian Studies, and those of comparative education and sociology/anthropology of education.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131775512X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Nonformal Education and Civil Society in Japan critically examines an aspect of education that has received little attention to date: intentional teaching and learning activities that occur outside formal schooling. In the last two decades nonformal education has rapidly increased in extent and significance. This is because individual needs for education have become so diverse and rapidly changing that formal education alone is unable to satisfy them. Increasingly diverse demands on education resulted from a combination of transnational migration, heightened human rights awareness, the aging population, and competition in the globalised labour market. Some in the private sector saw this situation as a business opportunity. Others in the civil society volunteered to assist the vulnerable. The rise in nonformal education has also been facilitated by national policy developments since the 1990s. Drawing on case studies, this book illuminates a diverse range of nonformal education activities; and suggests that the nature of the relationship between nonformal education and mainstream schooling has changed. Not only have the two sectors become more interdependent, but the formal education sector increasingly acknowledges nonformal education’s important and necessary roles. These changes signal a significant departure from the past in the overall functioning of Japanese education. The case studies include: neighbourhood homework clubs for migrant children, community-based literacy classes, after-school care programs, sport clubs, alternative schools for long-term absent students, schools for foreigners, training in intercultural competence at universities and corporations, kôminkan (community halls), and lifelong learning for the seniors. This book will appeal to both scholars of Japanese Studies/Asian Studies, and those of comparative education and sociology/anthropology of education.
Civil Society and Social Responsibility in Higher Education
Author: Enakshi Sengupta
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1839094664
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
This volume explores different angles of sustainability, university corporate social responsibility, and the role of civil society in the context of education, with a focus on curriculum development and teaching.
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1839094664
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
This volume explores different angles of sustainability, university corporate social responsibility, and the role of civil society in the context of education, with a focus on curriculum development and teaching.
Empire, Civil Society, and the Beginnings of Colonial Education in India
Author:
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108656269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This book tells a story of radical educational change. In the early nineteenth century, an imperial civil society movement promoted modern elementary 'schools for all'. This movement included British, American and German missionaries, and Indian intellectuals and social reformers. They organised themselves in non-governmental organisations, which aimed to change Indian education. Firstly, they introduced a new culture of schooling, centred on memorisation, examination, and technocratic management. Secondly, they laid the ground for the building of the colonial system of education, which substituted indigenous education. Thirdly, they broadened the social accessibility of schooling. However, for the nineteenth century reformers, education for all did not mean equal education for all: elementary schooling became a means to teach different subalterns 'their place' in colonial society. Finally, the educational movement also furthered the building of a secular 'national education' in England.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108656269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This book tells a story of radical educational change. In the early nineteenth century, an imperial civil society movement promoted modern elementary 'schools for all'. This movement included British, American and German missionaries, and Indian intellectuals and social reformers. They organised themselves in non-governmental organisations, which aimed to change Indian education. Firstly, they introduced a new culture of schooling, centred on memorisation, examination, and technocratic management. Secondly, they laid the ground for the building of the colonial system of education, which substituted indigenous education. Thirdly, they broadened the social accessibility of schooling. However, for the nineteenth century reformers, education for all did not mean equal education for all: elementary schooling became a means to teach different subalterns 'their place' in colonial society. Finally, the educational movement also furthered the building of a secular 'national education' in England.
Social Movements, Civil Society, and Radical Adult Education
Author: John D. Holst
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This text analyses the history of social movement & civil society theory within radical adult education & the Left. It argues that Gramasci did not advocate building civil society but proletarian hegemony.
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This text analyses the history of social movement & civil society theory within radical adult education & the Left. It argues that Gramasci did not advocate building civil society but proletarian hegemony.
Civil Society
Author: Michael Edwards
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745659055
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Since its publication in 2004, Civil Society has become a standard work of reference for all those who seek to understand the role of voluntary citizen action in the contemporary world. In this thoroughly-revised edition, Michael Edwards updates the arguments and evidence presented in the original and adds major new material on issues such as civil society in Africa and the Middle East, global civil society, information technology and new forms of citizen organizing. He explains how in the future the pressures of state encroachment, resurgent individualism, and old and familiar forces of nationalism and fundamentalism in new clothes will test and re-shape the practice of citizen action in both positive and negative ways. Civil Society will help readers of all persuasions to navigate these choppy waters with greater understanding, insight and success. Colleges and universities, foundations and NGOs, public policy-makers, journalists and commissions of inquiry – all have used Edwards’s book to understand and strengthen the vital role that civil society can play in deepening democracy, re-building community, and addressing poverty, inequality and injustice. This new edition will be required reading for anyone who is interested in creating a better world through citizen action.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745659055
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Since its publication in 2004, Civil Society has become a standard work of reference for all those who seek to understand the role of voluntary citizen action in the contemporary world. In this thoroughly-revised edition, Michael Edwards updates the arguments and evidence presented in the original and adds major new material on issues such as civil society in Africa and the Middle East, global civil society, information technology and new forms of citizen organizing. He explains how in the future the pressures of state encroachment, resurgent individualism, and old and familiar forces of nationalism and fundamentalism in new clothes will test and re-shape the practice of citizen action in both positive and negative ways. Civil Society will help readers of all persuasions to navigate these choppy waters with greater understanding, insight and success. Colleges and universities, foundations and NGOs, public policy-makers, journalists and commissions of inquiry – all have used Edwards’s book to understand and strengthen the vital role that civil society can play in deepening democracy, re-building community, and addressing poverty, inequality and injustice. This new edition will be required reading for anyone who is interested in creating a better world through citizen action.
Educational Knowledge
Author: Thomas S. Popkewitz
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791444030
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
An examination of educational reform and change throughout the world, focusing on how issues of power and governance within states affect school practice and policy-making.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791444030
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
An examination of educational reform and change throughout the world, focusing on how issues of power and governance within states affect school practice and policy-making.
Socialization to Civil Society
Author: Peter Robert Sawyer
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791461853
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Using a life history approach, looks at what influences citizens to participate in the voluntary associations that comprise and promote civil society.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791461853
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Using a life history approach, looks at what influences citizens to participate in the voluntary associations that comprise and promote civil society.