Adolescent Portraits: Identity, Relationships, and Challenges

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Garrod, Andrew

Psychology & Counseling

Allyn&Bacon

This anthology is comprised of two major components: thirteen full-length, autobiographical essays written by persons with learning disabilities and five analytical chapters written by education and psychology scholars. Speaking in terms alternately intimate and analytical, the autobiographical essays each tell of a sustained personal encounter with the challenges and mysteries of living with a learning disability. But these autobiographies are not merely personal, concerned solely with their writers' private lives. Rather, they are also in various ways consciously analytical, offering astute critical readings of culture and society. The scholarly essays are written by such noted educators and psychologists as Lisa Delpit, Robert Kegan, and Janet Lerner. For any educator or parent of students with learning disabilities.

Learning Disabilities and Life Stories

Education & Teaching

Rodis, Pano

Boscardin, Mary

Schools & Teaching

Pearson

There is a growing consensus in society on the need for schools and colleges to address the issue of moral education, despite argument over the philosophy that should guide it. This compilation is reflective of the cognitive developmental approach associated primarily with Lawrence Kohlberg and his colleagues.
Broad in scope, Part 1 offers an overview of theoretical perspectives on moral education. Part 2 looks at several innovative approaches to the implementation of moral education theory. Chapter topics include: the relationship between families and schools as forces in moral education; the use of literature to teach moral reasoning; an educational program that stimulates thought about moral decisions through its examination of the Holocaust; and a discussion of the potential value of competitive sports teams in moral development. Part 3 focuses on the role that schools can play in the development of democratic values and ways of thinking.

Learning for Life: Moral Education Theory and Practice

Praeger

Preparing for Citizenship: Teaching Youth to Live Democratically

Understanding democracy, learning to be democratic and to value democracy are critical competencies to be developed by all Americans. In the present debate about what knowledge is of most worth in the public school, these civic competencies are seen as second in importance only to the development of critical thinking. They are typically, however, honored more in commencement rhetoric than in school programs or practices; their actualization falls far short of their ascribed importance. The authors argue that critical opportunities for democratic development occur in the day-to-day life of the schools. It follows that all grade levels should participate in the creation of the constitution of the school and classrooms, the justice structure of the school (its disciplinary code, norms, and adjudication), the policy-making of the school, and in the understanding of the school as a social laboratory. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of such a program by reporting some two decades of applied research on democratic schools which have realized some of these outcomes.

Mosher, Ralph

Jr., Robert A. Kenny

Kenny Jr., Robert A.

Crossing Customs: International Students Write on U.S. College Life and Culture (RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education)

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Davis, Jay

Higher & Continuing Education

Routledge

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Contemporary Canadian writers explore, with different techniques and from various points of view, the questions, challenges and relationships that characterize mode adolescence. Intended for lovers of good literature, for those who are parenting or working with adolescents and especially for teenagers themselves, these stories will stir the imagination, inspire reflection and self-discovery, and lead to a deeper knowledge of the human heart.

World Unrealized (Vol.1)

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Breakwater Books Ltd.

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