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Mit diesem Band legt der -Forderkreis der Internationalen Akademie zur Humanisierung der Bildung e.V.-, der sich 1997 in Deutschland (Hildesheim und Magdeburg) konstituierte, ein erstes Jahrbuch vor. Die -Internationale Akademie- wurde 1995 auf einem Kongress am Aja-See im Altai (Sibirien) gegrundet. Sie entstand aus einem Kreis von internationalen Bildungsforschern, vornehmlich aus Osteuropa sowie aus Deutschland, England, Australien, Kanada und den USA. Das Jahrbuch versteht sich als Forum fur...

How do we prepare young people to understand the complex problems confronting our society and their place as citizens in shaping solutions? Until 1997, the contribution of schools to these challenges was ad hoc and uncoordinated, but with the introduction of citizenship education into the National Curriculum in England a new political project began. Between 2002 and 2012, England has become a leading player in the debate about how to induct young people into democracy. Jerome explores the conne...

Das erste Werk zur Geschichte der Madchenfortbildungsschule in Sachsen zeichnet deren Entwicklung seit ihrem Eingang in die Volksschulgesetzgebung im Jahre 1835 nach. Pragten auch hauswirtschaftliche Bildungsinhalte die Madchenfortbildungsschule, so waren es letztlich doch gewerbepolitische Interessenlagen, die ihre Institutionalisierung voranbrachten. Dies spiegelte sich in einem differenzierten gewerblichen Schulwesen fur Madchen wider, das auch von staatlicher Seite gefordert wurde. Die padag...

Mit der Arbeitsschule Barkenhoff in Worpswede wollte der als Jugendstilkunstler bekannte Maler Heinrich Vogeler seine gesellschaftspolitischen Vorstellungen in die Praxis umsetzen. Die Arbeit diskutiert schriftliche Ausserungen Vogelers und stellt sie in den Kontext reformpadagogischer Bestrebungen. Diese Auseinandersetzung mit theoretischen und praktischen Vorstellungen eines Einzelnen nimmt biographische Hintergrunde auf; sie stutzt sich wesentlich auf die Betrachtung des Verhaltnisses von Leb...

From the Parade Child to the King of Chaos depicts the pedagogical life history of an extraordinary teacher educator and internationally renowned curriculum scholar, William E. Doll, Jr. It explores how his life experiences have contributed to the formation and transformation of a celebrated teacher educator. From the child who spontaneously led a parade to the king of chaos who embraces complexity in education, complicated tales of Doll's journey through his childhood, youth, and decades of tea...

Lessons in Beauty explores the connections between art and education, and, more specifically, the links among the art of painting, the training of artists and the education of adults. From a historical point of view, five kinds of relationships are examined in this volume. In each case, one can speak of 'lessons in beauty', be it the transmission of moral messages through visual means, the professional training of painters, the aesthetic edification of the working class, the educational activit...

Reel Schools takes a fresh look at the history of Australian schooling through the lens of Australian cinema from the silent era until 2010. In exploring the relationship between cinematic representation and educational history, Josephine May shows how numerous Australian feature and documentary films offer access to powerful vernacular imaginings about school education in Australia. May argues that the cinematic school is a pervasive metaphor for the Australian nation. She demonstrates that, w...

The second edition of "Schools of Tomorrow," Schools of Today: Progressive Education in the 21st Century documents a new collection of child-centered progressive schools founded in the first half of the twentieth century and provides histories of some contemporary examples of progressive practices. Part I discusses six progressive schools founded in the first part of the twentieth century (City and Country; Dalton; the Weekday School at Riverside Church; The Laboratory School at the Institute of...

What is a liberal arts education? How does it differ from other forms of learning? What are we to make of the debates that surround it? What are its place, its value, and its prospects in the contemporary world? These are questions that trouble students and their parents, educators, critics, and policy-makers, and philosophers of education--among others. Learning to Flourish offers a lucid, penetrating, philosophical exploration of liberal learning: a still-evolving tradition of theory and prac...

Seymour Sarason, in the words of Carl Glickman, is 'one of America's seminal thinkers about public education'. For over four decades his has been a voice of much-needed skepticism about our plans for school reform, teacher training, and educational psychology. Now, for the first time, Sarason's essential writings on these and other issues are collected together, offering student and researcher alike with the range, depth, and originality of Sarason's contributions to American thinking on schooli...

It is time for academics to embrace the fact that nothing is more appealing to readers – especially to our students – than personal stories with meaning-making implications that can touch all lives. No matter the age or stage in life, the personal or collective identity, everyone deals with meaning-making issues that challenge them – and others – throughout their lifetimes. And everyone we know finds that when encouraged to write their stories in the academy, they find meaning, wholeness, and he...

Reimagining Education Reform and Innovation provides scholars and laymen with an assortment of theoretical and practical perspectives for questioning contemporary practices and forging new methods of education reform and innovation. This volume is the leading collection of contemporary essays by the major thinkers in the field of education reform and innovation. Carefully attentive to both theory and practice, this is the definitive source for learning about education reform and innovation, whil...

Environmental education is a field characterised by a paradox. Few would doubt the urgency and importance of learning to live in sustainable ways, but environmental education holds nowhere near the priority position in formal schooling around the world that this would suggest. This text sets out to find out why this is so. It is divided into six parts: Part 1 is a concise history of the development of environmental education from an international perspective; Part 2 is an overview of the 'glob...