Freedom and Discipline (Introductory Studies in Philosophy of Education)

Questions of discipline and order arise wherever formal education is practised, and are particularly acute for those training to teach or in their first school posts. For many years now writing on these topics has tended to depict teaching as the deployment of ‘skills’ and ‘techniques’ and competent teachers as those who successfully ‘manage’ their classes. This approach is criticised by Richard Smith as manipulative and destructive of the kind of pupil-teacher relationship conducive to any but the most trivial sorts of learning. Thus the philosophical issues which the book explores are shown throughout to have their roots in problems associated with established thinking and practice, and the author’s ideas have considerable practical relevance. He argues for a thorough reappraisal of the nature and basis of the teacher’s authority and demonstrates the importance of a proper understanding of the function of punishment. He suggests that many of the problems of discipline that teachers meet may actually stem from inappropriate ways of treating pupils, and shows that solutions to these problems must be compatible with the degree of initiative and personal responsibility that it is the business of education to foster.  Schools have changed in many ways, largely for the better, since the first edition of this book appeared: the young people in them are generally treated with far more respect than was the case a quarter of a century ago. The voices of a more repressive tradition however still make themselves heard from time to time. It is therefore important continually to re-state the principles on which civilised relationships between pupils and teachers need to be based. 

Education & Teaching

SMITH, RICHARD

Schools & Teaching

Unwin Hyman

The objective of this text is to introduce to engineering students at an early level the principles and concepts which are the basis of the electric power industry. The material starts with the synchronous generator and continues with the step-up transformer, the transmission system and the loads. Although this presentation is the method the authors prefer, each topic is treated individually and may be taught in any order. By presenting electric machinery as a part of the total power system, the authors have tried to avoid the traditional separation of electric machinery and power system analysis courses. The material in this text is designed to be taught on an undergraduate-level, one-term course. It is assumed that the students have had one course covering basic circuit concepts.

Introduction to Electric Power Engineering

Engineering & Transportation

Shultz, Richard

Engineering

HarperCollins, Publishers

This provocative collection of rites, spells, amulets, curses, and recipes of the early Coptic Christians documents Christianity as a living folk religion resembling other popular belief systems - something quite different from what theo-logical and doctrinal traditions have led us to believe. Like The Nag Hammadi Library, this extraordinary collection of little known incantatory texts radically alters our perception of Christianity as primarily a highly theological and orthodox tradition. These texts and illustrations show that the folk practices of the earliest Christians are quite similar to the day-to-day beliefs and rituals of spirituality that imbue indigenous primal religions and popular religion generally. Placing these previously unknown ancient texts in historical context and explaining their significance, Marvin Meyer and Richard Smith also reveal the place of healing, prayer, miracles, and magic in the Christian teaching practice. Illustrated with line drawings and photographs from the original ancient documents and containing a plethora of rituals, curses, and spells, Ancient Christian Magic is the practical and liturgical companion to the narrative and theological texts of The Nag Hammadi Library.

Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power

Politics & Social Sciences

Meyer, Marvin W.

Social Sciences

Harpercollins

Gathers the texts of ancient Coptic rituals, including spells, curses, invocations, baptisms, magical amulets, and prayers

History

World

Harper-San Francisco

JOURNEYS A Reading and Literature Program, TEACHERS MANUAL with anser key to Test booklet (DELTA)

Walking in a Winter Wonderland Book and CD

Children's Books

Oxford University Press

This concise yet comprehensive survey examines the social, political, and economic impacts of new media from the early days of the telegraph to the latest network technologies. Featuring an in-depth treatment of new media theories, engaging case studies, and Canadian examples throughout, this text offers students a comprehensive introduction to new media from a Canadian perspective.

New Media: An Introduction, Canadian Edition

Flew, Terry

The records of manorial courts have been used increasingly as the principal source for the reconstruction of rural and small town society in Medieval England. They offer a unique source with which to investigate peasant demography, family patterns, the village community and economy, the characteristics and instruments of customary law and the ways in which that law was perceived and exploited by landlords and tenants.

Medieval Society and the Manor Court

Razi, Zvi

Europe

Clarendon Press

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