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  • Education 2.0

    The LearningWeb Revolution and the Transformation of the School

    by Leonard J. Waks ...
    Thirty years of spirited school reforms have failed to improve our schools and instead have left our public school systems in disarray. Meanwhile, employment prospects for high school and college graduates are fading, and the public is losing faith in its schools. The education paradigm inherited from the Industrial Era is in crisis. In the last decade, however, the Internet and new Web 2.0 ... Read more

    Was $72.99 USD Now $64.99 USD

  • The Evolution and Evaluation of Massive Open Online Courses

    MOOCs in Motion

    by Leonard J. Waks ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Winner of the Outstanding Book Award (Society for Professors of Education)This book offers a re-assessment of the educational and occupational value of MOOCs based on developments since 2013. When MOOCs appeared--amidst great fanfare in 2012, leaders proclaimed an educational “revolution.” By 2013, however, dramatic failures, negative research findings, and sharp critiques ended the MOOC hype. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Classroom Teacher and the Individual School Child

    John Dewey’s Bridgewater Normal School Lectures (1922)

    Edited by Leonard J. Waks ...
    John Dewey (1859–1952), one of the most prominent American intellectuals for the first half of the twentieth century, is considered by many to be the father of public education, advocating for the concept that the purpose of public education was to develop an informed citizenry that prepared them for active participation in public life. He was highly regarded for his lectures on the power of ... Read more

    $35.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John Dewey's Human Nature and Conduct

    A Centennial Handbook

    Edited by Leonard J. Waks, Andrea R. English ...
    This handbook introduces Human Nature and Conduct, John Dewey's groundbreaking book about moral psychology and moral philosophy, to a new generation. In his classic work, Dewey redefined impulse, habit, and intelligence: not as isolated individual traits, but as socially conditioned factors shaping human thought and action. His ultimate insight is that growth is the only moral good, and that ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • John Dewey's Democracy and Education

    A Centennial Handbook

    Edited by Leonard J. Waks, Andrea R. English ...
    John Dewey's Democracy and Education is the touchstone for a great deal of modern educational theory. It covers a wide range of themes and issues relating to education, including teaching, learning, educational environments, subject matter, values, and the nature of work and play. This Handbook is designed to help experts and non-experts to navigate Dewey's text. The authors are specialists in the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Listening to Teach

    Beyond Didactic Pedagogy

    Edited by Leonard J. Waks ...
    First book to offer a survey of pedagogical listening in conventional and alternative methodologies.Winner of the 2016 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society of Professors of EducationWhat happens when teachers step back from didactic talk and begin to listen to their students? After decades of neglect, we are currently witnessing a surge of interest in this question. Listening to Teach ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • The Contemporary Relevance of John Dewey’s Theories on Teaching and Learning

    Deweyan Perspectives on Standardization, Accountability, and Assessment in Education

    Edited by Emer Ring, JuliAnna Ávila, AG Rud, Leonard Waks ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
    Through expert analysis, this text proves that John Dewey’s views on efficiency in education are as relevant as ever. By exploring Deweyan theories of teaching and learning, the volume illustrates how they can aid educators in navigating the theoretical and practical implications of accountability, standardization, and assessment.The Contemporary Relevance of John Dewey’s Theories on Teaching and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Confucianism and Deweyan Pragmatism

    Resources for a New Geopolitics of Interdependence

    by Roger T. Ames, Roger T. Ames, Yajun Chen, Peter D. Hershock, Peter D. Hershock, Barry Allen, Jim Behuniak, Richard J. Bernstein0, Jia Chen1, Mathew A. Foust2, Judith M. Green3, Viren Murthy4, Carlin Romano5, Sor-hoon Tan6, Leonard J. Waks7, Guorong Yang8 ...
    Series series Confucian Cultures
    Over the past generation, the rise of East Asia and especially China has brought about a sea change in the economic and political world order. At the same time, global warming, environmental degradation, food and water shortages, population explosion, and income inequities have created a perfect storm that threatens the very survival of humanity. It is clear now that the Westphalian model of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    by Clayton Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, Michael B. Horn ...
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  • When the State Meets the Street

    Public Service and Moral Agency

    by Bernardo Zacka ...
    When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield a significant margin of discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives. Combining insights ... Read more

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  • Net Smart

    How to Thrive Online

    by Howard Rheingold ...
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  • Teaching As a Subversive Activity

    A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World

    by Neil Postman ...
    A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods—with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world.Praise for Teaching As a Subversive Activity“A healthy dose of Postman and Weingartner is a good thing: if they make even a dent in the pious . . . American classroom, the book will be worthwhile.”—New York Times Book Review“Teaching and knowledge are ... Read more

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