Transforming Education through the Arts

This timely book takes up the challenge of maintaining programs in the arts in the face of unrelenting pressure from two directions; the increasing focus on literacy and numeracy in schools, teamed with the cut-backs in public funding that often affect the arts most severely. Drawing on the wealth of evidence already available on the impact of the arts, including the findings of a landmark experimental study in Australia, this text considers: <ul>
<li>The social and educational impact of neglecting the arts</li> <li>Research evidence on engagement in the arts </li> <li>Why there is a need for educational reform</li> <li>How to transform schools through engagement in the arts</li>
</ul>
This challenge to arts education exists at a time where an increasing number of students are becoming disengaged from the traditional schooling model that appears ill-suited to the needs of the 21st century and to the ways young people learn in a globalised, high-tech knowledge world. Transforming Education through the Arts provides illustrations from around the world that clearly show how the arts have transformed learning for disengaged students and established their worth beyond doubt in settings where the disengagement of students has hitherto been presented as an intractable problem. Transforming Education through the Arts is an indispensible tool for policymakers and practitioners in school education and for academic and postgraduate students with an interest in the arts. It is also highly relevant to the work of individuals and organisations in the philanthropic sector and those in the wider community who place a priority in closing the gap between high and low performing students.

Caldwell, Brian

Vaughan, Tanya

Arts & Photography

Routledge

This timely book takes up the challenge of maintaining programs in the arts in the face of unrelenting pressure from two directions; the increasing focus on literacy and numeracy in schools, teamed with the cut-backs in public funding that often affect the arts most severely. Drawing on the wealth of evidence already available on the impact of the arts, including the findings of a landmark experimental study in Australia, this text considers: <ul>
<li>The social and educational impact of neglecting the arts</li> <li>Research evidence on engagement in the arts </li> <li>Why there is a need for educational reform</li> <li>How to transform schools through engagement in the arts</li>
</ul>
This challenge to arts education exists at a time where an increasing number of students are becoming disengaged from the traditional schooling model that appears ill-suited to the needs of the 21st century and to the ways young people learn in a globalised, high-tech knowledge world. Transforming Education through the Arts provides illustrations from around the world that clearly show how the arts have transformed learning for disengaged students and established their worth beyond doubt in settings where the disengagement of students has hitherto been presented as an intractable problem. Transforming Education through the Arts is an indispensible tool for policymakers and practitioners in school education and for academic and postgraduate students with an interest in the arts. It is also highly relevant to the work of individuals and organisations in the philanthropic sector and those in the wider community who place a priority in closing the gap between high and low performing students.

We All Fall Down

When you no longer need question the nature of the universe, does it follow you no longer need question the nature of your soul? The Christian Bible is true, the prophets were right, and Armageddon is now. Using this dramatic backdrop, Brian Caldwell explores the nature of hatred and forgiveness, divinity and damnation. Building to a shattering, inevitable climax, WE ALL FALL DOWN employs biting realism in the story of one man's confrontation with the end of the world, God, and, most harrowingly, himself.

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Infinity Pub

The Return Of The Mentor: Strategies For Workplace Learning (Education Policy Perspectives)

A book on the good practise of mentoring which considers the roles of the mentor-mentee in changing workplaces affected by external forces including technology, the economy and the dismantling of middle- management structures and offers guidelines for those who seek good practise.

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Beyond the Self-Managing School (Student Outcomes and the Reform of Education Series)

The broad approach of local management of schools or self-managing schools is now widely accepted. In Britain, there is even consensus between the three major political parties that the approach should be continued and extended. A key issue, though, is what comes next for self- managing schools? Drawing on their work and experience in research consultancy, Caldwell and Spinks examine the way in which education is changing, and outline what is desirable and workable for schools today, with clear guidelines for policy-makers and practitioners. The focus is specifically on the school, the classroom, the student, and the future of learning in society. Practitioners will find this book immediately accessible and useful.

Reference

Spinks, Jim M.

Etiquette

The Bible is true, the prophets were right, and Armageddon is now: Brian Caldwell explores the nature of hatred and forgiveness, divinity and damnation through the story of one person's confrontation with the end of the world, God, and, most harrowingly, himself.

Contemporary

ALPHAR PUBLISHING

Beyond the Self-Managing School

Part of the NOFA Guides. Includes information on: <ul>
<li>Basic concepts of pest control (host susceptibility, soil health, genetic resistance, ecosystem factors)</li> <li>Practical approaches (crop cultural practices, rescue treatments, special section on mammals and birds, food safety)</li> <li>Farm design for pest reduction (diversity, crop rotation)</li> <li>Unorthodox approaches (farmers out of the box)</li> <li>Identifying pests</li> <li>Crop-by-crop pests and practices</li> </ul>

NOFA Guides Set: Growing Healthy Vegetable Crops: Working with Nature to Control Diseases and Pests Organically (Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Chelsea Green Publishing

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Transforming Education through the Arts

Transforming Education through the Arts

We All Fall Down

The Return Of The Mentor: Strategies For Workplace Learning (Education Policy Perspectives)

Beyond the Self-Managing School (Student Outcomes and the Reform of Education Series)

Beyond the Self-Managing School (Student Outcomes and the Reform of Education Series)

We All Fall Down

Beyond the Self-Managing School

NOFA Guides Set: Growing Healthy Vegetable Crops: Working with Nature to Control Diseases and Pests Organically (Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series)