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Alternative Schooling and Student Engagement

Author : Nina Bascia
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319542591
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Schooling and Student Engagement written by Nina Bascia and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the unique phenomenon of public alternative schools in Toronto, Canada and other large urban areas. Although schools of this kind have existed for more than a century, very little has been written about the alternative school movement. These alternatives focus more on child-centered instruction, give many students (and teachers) opportunities to organize the school differently, provide a greater voice for teachers, students, and parents, and engage students far more with experiential learning. When traditional school structures are failing to meet the needs of many children and youth, there is a rapidly growing need for information and discussion about alternatives that will encourage their talents and serve their needs. This book draws attention to the issue of alternative schooling to help make it more accessible to a wider audience.

Alternative Schooling and School Choice

Author : Allan G. Osborne, Jr.
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452266573
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Schooling and School Choice written by Allan G. Osborne, Jr. and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education of America′s school children always has been and always will be a hot-button issue. From what should be taught to how to pay for education to how to keep kids safe in schools, impassioned debates emerge and mushroom, both within the scholarly community and among the general public. This volume in the point/counterpoint Debating Issues in American Education reference series tackles the topic of alternative schooling and school choice. Fifteen to twenty chapters explore such varied issues as charter schools, for-profit schools, faith-based schools, magnet schools, vouchers, and more. Each chapter opens with an introductory essay by the volume editor, followed by point/counterpoint articles written and signed by invited experts, and concludes with Further Readings and Resources, thus providing readers with views on multiple sides of alternative schooling and school choice issues and pointing them toward more in-depth resources for further exploration.

Alternative Schooling and New Education

Author : Ralf Koerrenz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319678647
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Schooling and New Education written by Ralf Koerrenz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the European discussion about alternative schooling in the 20th century. It refers to a stream of concepts that are often described as New Education, Progressive Education, Education Nouvelle or Reformpädagogik, and discusses a range of different models of alternative schooling. Exploring the works of a range of continental educational philosophers, including Lietz, Blonsky, Kerschensteiner, Freinet, Decroly and Petersen, the book offers a unique insight into texts not yet translated into English. These educational models are presented with regards to the biographical background of the authors; the crucial elements of their construction; the historical interconnections between schooling, society and culture; and finally their connection to today’s discussions in educational sciences. The book will be highly relevant for researchers and advanced students working on the theory, history and practice of schooling, particularly those with a focus on alternative schooling and the philosophy of education.

Alternative American Schools

Author : Claire V. Korn
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791404713
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Alternative American Schools written by Claire V. Korn and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternative American Schools: Ideals in Action is a book for parents and teachers, for education professors, researchers, and students--indeed, for everyone who wants to understand the daily practices and philosophies of schools where awakening interests and learning how to learn is more important than content mastery. Drawing upon years of research and personal experiences, Korn clearly discusses fundamental contemporary educational issues through an analysis of seven long-lived, open, alternative schools, preschool through high school, public and private. This clearly written book explores the cooperative (and sometimes confusing) roles of teachers, students, and parents in these schools of choice; it also discusses their philosophical, financial, and physical survival needs. Once popularly dismissed as failed dreams, today these open learning environments continue to flourish and provide educational options to many enthusiastic learners.

The Handbook of Alternative Education

Author : Jerry Mintz
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Alternative Education written by Jerry Mintz and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text considers issues in alternative education. It looks at the issues from teaching, learning and research perspectives.

Helping Students Graduate

Author : Franklin Schargel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317925823
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Helping Students Graduate written by Franklin Schargel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the fifteen strategies identified through research reviewed by The National Dropout Prevention Center and Network at Clemson University. Each chapter in this book was written by a nationally recognized authority in that field. Research has shown that these 15 strategies have been successfully implemented in all school levels from K - 12 in rural, suburban, and urban centers; as stand-alone programs or as part of systemic school improvement plans. Helping Students Graduate: A Strategic Approach to Dropout Prevention also covers No Child Left Behind and its effects on dropout rates; Dealing with Hispanic dropouts; Differences and similarities between rural and urban dropouts. These fifteen strategies have been adopted by the U.S. Department of Education. They are applicable to all students, including students with disabilities.

Alternative Schooling in India

Author : Sarojini Vittachi
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternative Schooling in India written by Sarojini Vittachi and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings into focus the innovative methods of learning in many Indian schools. It sheds light on schools that make the learning process fun for the teacher as well as the taught, in contrast to the whirl of examination-oriented learning in mainstream schools. The researched data on alternative schools in the country offer the reader an array of institutions all over the country, where efforts are being made to move away from traditional and mainstream learning. It includes exclusive articles by leading practitioners in the field, who offer an insight into the ground reality when a certain philosophy is applied to a school, and also experiential accounts of how such alternative practices mould the learner, teacher and impact the parent as well. The book also consists of a directory of alternative schools in India, including many schools that are tucked away in remote corners of the country. Interestingly, the common thread binding these ‘alternative schools’ is concern for the welfare of the child by teachers who see their work as much more than a job.

Alternative Schooling, Social Justice and Marginalised Students

Author : Stewart Riddle
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319589903
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Schooling, Social Justice and Marginalised Students written by Stewart Riddle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the experiences and perspectives of students and teachers at an alternative music school, which caters for young learners who have been marginalised and disenfranchised from mainstream schooling. The school utilises a rich music-infused curriculum that connects to the lives of its students, alongside a democratic ethos and ethic of care for members of the school community, including the students, teachers, and parents. The combination of personal narratives together with detailed critical discussion, provides a compelling argument for how schools can make a major difference to the lives of young people. The case study presented in this book offers one potential response to the institutionalised social and educational inequities that young people continue to face, and highlights the important lessons from alternative schooling for education more broadly. It will be of particular interest to researchers in the areas of education and sociology, especially those concerned with matters of social justice and equity in education.

Alternative Schools

Author : Brenda Edgerton Conley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576074412
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Schools written by Brenda Edgerton Conley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-11-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the growth and development of alternative schools in American society and their role in the public school environment. In Alternative Schools: A Reference Handbook, educator Brenda Edgerton Conley surveys the emerging alternatives to our conventional educational system—a system that is not only costly, but ineffective for many children. In a resource aimed at a broad audience—school administrators, politicians, and, most important, parents—Conley offers both a historical and a present-day perspective on alternative educational programs. What sets the alternative education movement apart, she argues, is its acknowledgment that we all learn differently. That knowledge has given rise to an explosion of exciting alternatives—from open schools to home schooling, from charter schools to church schools. These alternative schools are smaller and less bureaucratic, more responsive to the community, and more receptive to change.

Enter the Alternative School

Author : Alia R. Tyner-Mullings
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317260368
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Enter the Alternative School written by Alia R. Tyner-Mullings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the Alternative School is an in-depth examination of public school alternatives to traditional educational models in the US. This book analyses how urban education can respond to a system growing increasingly standardised and privatised. As an example, Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS), a public alternative schooling model, successfully served predominantly low-income and minority students. It also changed the New York City public school system while promoting methods that allowed educational institutions to make changes in the lives of their students. Written by a sociologist who was both a student at CPESS and a teacher at a school developed from the CPESS model, the book analyses education from a range of vantage points, assesses outcomes, and invites readers to consider the potential of alternative educational models to address the challenges of reforms that attempt to provide quality education to the low-income and minority students otherwise under served by public schools.

Alternative Universities

Author : David J. Staley
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421427419
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Universities written by David J. Staley and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining the universities of the future. How can we re-envision the university? Too many examples of what passes for educational innovation today—MOOCs especially—focus on transactions, on questions of delivery. In Alternative Universities, David J. Staley argues that modern universities suffer from a poverty of imagination about how to reinvent themselves. Anyone seeking innovation in higher education today should concentrate instead, he says, on the kind of transformational experience universities enact. In this exercise in speculative design, Staley proposes ten models of innovation in higher education that expand our ideas of the structure and scope of the university, suggesting possibilities for what its future might look like. What if the university were designed around a curriculum of seven broad cognitive skills or as a series of global gap year experiences? What if, as a condition of matriculation, students had to major in three disparate subjects? What if the university placed the pursuit of play well above the acquisition and production of knowledge? By asking bold "What if?" questions, Staley assumes that the university is always in a state of becoming and that there is not one "idea of the university" to which all institutions must aspire. This book specifically addresses those engaged in university strategy—university presidents, faculty, policy experts, legislators, foundations, and entrepreneurs—those involved in what Simon Marginson calls "university making." Pairing a critique tempered to our current moment with an explanation of how change and disruption might contribute to a new "golden age" for higher education, Alternative Universities is an audacious and essential read.

Alternative Schools in British Columbia 1960-1975

Author : Harley Rothstein
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039135579
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Schools in British Columbia 1960-1975 written by Harley Rothstein and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tumultuous 1960s was an era of the counterculture, political activism, and resistance to authority. Conventions and values were challenged and new approaches to education captured the imaginations of parents, teachers, and students. Reacting against the one-size-fits-all nature of the traditional public school system, groups of parents and teachers in Canada and the United States established alternative schools or “free schools” based on the Progressive, child-centred philosophy of John Dewey and the Romantic ideas of Summerhill founder A.S. Neill. In Alternative Schools in British Columbia, 1960-1975, Harley Rothstein tells the story of ten such schools that arose in the province of British Columbia. Drawing on 350 self-conducted interviews, newspaper articles, personal journals, and school records, Dr. Rothstein invites readers to experience the early days of alternative schools. He describes the educational philosophy, curriculum, and governance of these institutions, and introduces readers to the people who were at the heart of alternative communities. Tracing the evolution, successes, and challenges of each school, he presents the day-to-day experience and brings to life the ethos of the 1960s era. Historians, educators, and all curious readers will become immersed in this engaging account of a group of educational pioneers on Canada’s west coast, and how they inspired the liberalization of the public school system that would come in the 1970s.

Changing Schools

Author : Terry Wrigley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113673452X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Changing Schools written by Terry Wrigley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is directed at all who are concerned with progressive school change and the promotion of democratic citizenship and social justice.

Geographies of Alternative Education

Author : Kraftl, Peter
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447320514
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Alternative Education written by Kraftl, Peter and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Quick Reference Guide to Educational Innovations

Author : Carolyn Orange
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780761978169
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (781 download)

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Download or read book The Quick Reference Guide to Educational Innovations written by Carolyn Orange and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2002-02-19 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their struggle to identify successful solutions for their schools, teachers, administrators, board members, and parents must wade through reams of educational rhetoric and sales hype. This resource is designed to serve a broad audience of practicing teachers, preservice teachers, administrators, resource teachers, college professors, parents, and others who would like to stay abreast of new education programs and innovations. It objectively explains how each program, practice, and philosophy is supported by research and how it really works in schools. It provides straightforward definitions and concisely illustrates the practical applications and supporting research for approximately 125 educational innovations. Entries include feedback from award-winning teachers, giving educators an unbiased view of real-world effectiveness. Some highlights are as follows: (1) the exploration of more than 60 innovative practices, including assertive discipline, computer-assisted instruction, conflict resolution, distance learning, and the Socratic method; (2) an examination of results-oriented programs, including emergent literacy, Jumpstart, and Touch Point Math; (3) detailed discussion of policies regarding immersion and inclusion, standardized testing, and summer school; and (4) comprehensive coverage of movement, concepts, and theories, including brain-based learning, mainstreaming, multicultural education, and school vouchers. (Contains 135 references.) (RT)

Alternative Education

Author : Yoshiyuki Nagata
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402049862
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Education written by Yoshiyuki Nagata and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-03-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines issues in alternative and mainstream education systems. It presents not only alternative forms of education facing actual issues in societies but also legal and administrative features of education. The book, dealing with issues of minority in education system, addresses school development in the 21st century as well as what kind of educational community should be created in the age of globalization.

Solution Focused Brief Therapy in Alternative Schools

Author : Cynthia Franklin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351736515
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Solution Focused Brief Therapy in Alternative Schools written by Cynthia Franklin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solution Focused Brief Therapy in Alternative Schools (SFBT) provides a step-by-step guide for how school social workers and counselors can work with other school professionals to create an effective solution focused dropout prevention program. Along with illustrative cases and detailed explanations, the authors detail the curriculum and day-to-day operations of a solution focused dropout prevention program by drawing on the experiences of a school that uses this approach.