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Learning at Not-School

2013 Education
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Release : 2013
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Book Synopsis Learning at Not-School by : Julian Sefton-Green

Download or read book Learning at Not-School written by Julian Sefton-Green. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on programs, organizations, and institutions that have developed in parallel to public schooling which offer education in a non-traditional, non-school setting.

"I Love Learning; I Hate School"

2016-01-13 Education
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Release : 2016-01-13
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Book Synopsis "I Love Learning; I Hate School" by : Susan D. Blum

Download or read book "I Love Learning; I Hate School" written by Susan D. Blum. This book was released on 2016-01-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frustrated by her students’ performance, her relationships with them, and her own daughter’s problems in school, Susan D. Blum, a professor of anthropology, set out to understand why her students found their educational experience at a top-tier institution so profoundly difficult and unsatisfying. Through her research and in conversations with her students, she discovered a troubling mismatch between the goals of the university and the needs of students. In "I Love Learning; I Hate School," Blum tells two intertwined but inseparable stories: the results of her research into how students learn contrasted with the way conventional education works, and the personal narrative of how she herself was transformed by this understanding. Blum concludes that the dominant forms of higher education do not match the myriad forms of learning that help students—people in general—master meaningful and worthwhile skills and knowledge. Students are capable of learning huge amounts, but the ways higher education is structured often leads them to fail to learn. More than that, it leads to ill effects. In this critique of higher education, infused with anthropological insights, Blum explains why so much is going wrong and offers suggestions for how to bring classroom learning more in line with appropriate forms of engagement. She challenges our system of education and argues for a "reintegration of learning with life."

The Rebirth of Education

2013-09-30 Education
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Release : 2013-09-30
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Book Synopsis The Rebirth of Education by : Lant Pritchett

Download or read book The Rebirth of Education written by Lant Pritchett. This book was released on 2013-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite great progress around the world in getting more kids into schools, too many leave without even the most basic skills. In India’s rural Andhra Pradesh, for instance, only about one in twenty children in fifth grade can perform basic arithmetic. The problem is that schooling is not the same as learning. In The Rebirth of Education, Lant Pritchett uses two metaphors from nature to explain why. The first draws on Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom’s book about the difference between centralized and decentralized organizations, The Starfish and the Spider. Schools systems tend be centralized and suffer from the limitations inherent in top-down designs. The second metaphor is the concept of isomorphic mimicry. Pritchett argues that many developing countries superficially imitate systems that were successful in other nations— much as a nonpoisonous snake mimics the look of a poisonous one. Pritchett argues that the solution is to allow functional systems to evolve locally out of an environment pressured for success. Such an ecosystem needs to be open to variety and experimentation, locally operated, and flexibly financed. The only main cost is ceding control; the reward would be the rebirth of education suited for today’s world.

How We Learn

2016-10-21 Education
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Release : 2016-10-21
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Book Synopsis How We Learn by : Knud Illeris

Download or read book How We Learn written by Knud Illeris. This book was released on 2016-10-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having published in 11 languages and sold in more than 100,000 copies, this fully revised edition of How We Learn examines what learning actually is and why and how learning and non-learning takes place. Focusing exclusively on learning itself, it provides a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to traditional learning theory and the newest international contributions, while at the same time presenting an innovative and holistic understanding of learning. Comprising insightful and topical discussions covering all learning types, learning situations and environments this edition includes key updates to sections on: School-based learning Reflexivity and biographicity E-learning The basic dimensions and types of learning What happens when intended learning does not take place The connections between learning and personal development Learning in the competition state How We Learn spans from a basic grounding of the fundmental structure and dimensions of learning and different learning types, to a detailed exploration of the differing situations and environments in which learning takes place. These include learning in different life stages, learning in the late modern competition society, and the crucial topic of learning barriers. Transformative learning, identity, the concept of competencies, workplace learning, non-learning and the interaction between learning and the educational approaches of the competition state are also examined. Forming the broadest basic reader on the topic of human learning, this revised edition is integral reading for all those who deal with learning and teaching in practice. Particularly interested will be MA and doctoral students of education as well as university and school based teachers.

Don't Go Back to School

2013 Adult education
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Release : 2013
Genre : Adult education
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Book Synopsis Don't Go Back to School by : Kio Stark

Download or read book Don't Go Back to School written by Kio Stark. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook for independent learners based on 100 ethnographic interviews, with guidance, how-to, and interviewee stories.

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