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"With a preface by Donaldo Macedo and an interview with Ana Maria Araujo Freire"--Cover.

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"With a preface by Donaldo Macedo and an interview with Ana Maria Araujo Freire"--Cover.

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It is crucial for students of vajrayana Buddhism to find an authentic wisdom teacher, and know how to properly rely upon that teacher in order to awaken to their buddha nature and thereby attain full enlightenment.

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Biddle (psychology and sociology, U. of Missouri) and Saha (sociology, Australian National U.) discuss concepts needed to understand the use of education research knowledge, review claims about the use of that knowledge in education, and provide evidence about these issues from a study based on inte

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This volume establishes a dialogue between the theoretical and practical components of teaching, between the barriers that inhibit changes and the factors that help overcome those barriers.

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At the beginning of the new millennium, educators, parents, and others should reevaluate what it means for adults and young people to grow up in a world that has been radically altered by a hyper capitalism that monopolizes the educational force of culture as it ruthlessly eliminates those public spheres not governed by the logic of the market.

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The authors show how such postmodernist thinkers as Derrida, Foucault, and Lyotard illuminate puzzling aspects of education. They argue that educational theory is currently at an impasse, and that we need these new and disturbing ideas in order to "think again", fruitfully and creatively about education.

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The authors show how such postmodernist thinkers as Derrida, Foucault, and Lyotard illuminate puzzling aspects of education. They argue that educational theory is currently at an impasse, and that we need these new and disturbing ideas in order to "think again", fruitfully and creatively about education.

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In this unique attempt to address the dilemma in contemporary education, the noted cognitive scientist weaves the lessons garnered from three vantage points: his own traditional education as an American child, his years of research on creativity at Harvard, and what he saw in modern Chinese classrooms,into a program that draws on the best of both modes, traditional and progressive.

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From the best-selling social thinker, Riane Eisler, a new model for childhood education and a healthier, more humane world.

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Addressing the need for marshaling the resources of education to help promote a more civil society, this book argues that education has a critical role to play in challenging the dominant views of politics and education.

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Addressing the need for marshaling the resources of education to help promote a more civil society, this book argues that education has a critical role to play in challenging the dominant views of politics and education.

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Examines a series of inter-related problems associated with the nature of knowledge, how it is produced within intellectual fields and the implications for the transmission of knowledge in the classroom.

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Deals with a set of inter-related problems associated with the nature of knowledge, how it is produced within intellectual fields and the implications of those things for education and the transmission of knowledge in the classroom. This title engages with the ideas of major thinkers such as Durkheim, Bernstein and Bourdieu.

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Promotes a model of education which is collaborative and non-hierarchical. While traditional approaches to learning and teaching stress cognitive aspects of development and learning, this text advocates an approach which synthesizes the cognitive, affective and social dimensions of learning.

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These papers aim to provide a substantial review of the literature pertaining to a comprehensive range of traditional and contemporary research paradigms and research methods. The book is designed as a reference work for novice researchers in the fields of geographical and environmental education.

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What are the fundamental aims and values underlying education What values should education try to promote in a world of value pluralism What is morality, and should schools teach it How should values enter into educational leadership This book helps think about these questions and many others concerning values in education.