A Companion to the Philosophy of Education is a comprehensive guide to philosophical thinking about education.
Offers a state-of-the-art account of current and controversial issues in education, including issues pertaining to multiculturalism, special education, sex education, and academic freedom.
Written by an international team of leading experts, who are directly engaged with these profound and complex educational problems.
Serves as an indispensable guide to the field of philosophy of education.
This concise and accessible text is designed to prepare novice researchers in the planning, implementation, evaluation and writing-up of a small-scale research project, from first idea to finished product.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Hybrid Learning, ICHL 2009, held in Macau, China, in August 2008. The 38 revised full papers presented together with one keynote lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 submissions.
Education - An 'Impossible Profession'?: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Learning and Classrooms
In classrooms and lectures we learn not only about academic topics but also about ourselves, our peers and how people and ideas interact. Education – An Impossible Profession extends the ways in which we might think about these processes by offering a refreshing reconsideration of key educational experiences including those of: being judged and assessed, both formally and informally, adapting to different groups for different purposes, struggling to think under pressure, learning to recognise and adapt to the expectations of others.
General Rules and Instruction in all Branches of American Baking. In Nine Parts, each Part Containing many New Theories and New Ways of Composing Recipes, and Furthering the Culinary Education of the Professional Baker as well as the Housekeeper.