Product Description: Book by Perraton

Product Description: Book by Perraton

Product Description: Featuring more than 100 exercises that develop young people’s capabilities, this book analyzes the concepts central to effective after-school programs. It offers developmental, cognitive, and social ecology perspectives on how children learn.

Product Description: In teacher education, field work in community-based spaces (including foster homes and programs for homeless youth) is frequently contrasted with "traditional" field experiences in classroom settings, where beginning teachers are immediately introduced to teacher-centered models of instruction...read more

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Product Description: education

Product Description: This volume explores the issues with which evaluators of nonformal education programs (such as parks, zoos, community outreach organizations, and museums) struggle. These issues are not unique to nonformal programs and settings. Rather, they pose different sets of problems and solutions from those that face evaluators of traditional education programs...read more

This seminal book describes the nature and extent of science learning in America with particular attention to the innumerable sources of science education existing outside the formal education system. Falk and his well-respected colleagues provide examples from research and practice on how to better understand, facilitate and communicate about free-choice science learning, including policy recommendations for insuring its growth and integration within the complex learning environment of the 21st century. This important and timely volume: * Makes a case for the existence of an infrastructure for free-choice science learning. * Highlights research studies that reveal the nature and function of the infrastructure. * Proposes studies, policies, and approaches that will enable educators and policymakers to better understand its nature, function, and effectiveness. * Encourages coalition building and collaborations across the infrastructure that lead to better practice, greater resources, realistic assessments, and greater application of free-choice science learning. (view table of contents)

Arguing that many young people can benefit from a time off period between high school and college or during their college years, this practical resource introduces a seven-step program for parents to develop and implement, accompanied by anecdotes from students and parents, sample model plans, and more than one hundred gap-year programs and resources. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: With some of the most prestigious universities in America urging students to defer admissions so they can experience the world, the idea of the gap year has taken hold in America. Since its development in Britain nearly fifty years ago, taking time off between secondary school and college has allowed students the opportunity to travel, develop crucial life skills, and grow up, all while doing volunteer work in much-needed parts of the developing world...read more

Product Description: Book by Christensen, B. R.

Product Description: As the pace of change in the workplace accelerates and training budgets are challenged, it becomes essential for employees to learn as they go along. In this connected world, new ways of learning are emerging all of the time, whether the learning is planned, unexpected or self-directed...read more

Most learning on the job is informal. This book offers advice on how to support, nurture, and leverage informal learning and helps trainers to go beyond their typical classes and programs in order to widen and deepen heir reach. The author reminds us that we live in a new, radically different, constantly changing, and often distracting workplace. He guides us through the plethora of digital learning tools that workers are now accessing through their computers, PDAs, and cell phones.

Product Description: Is learning a natural ability that schools, colleges, and universities gradually stifle in individuals, replacing it with a learning dependency? Charles A. Wedemeyer stressed that learning is a natural, idiosyncratic, and continually renewable human trait and survival resource...read more

Product Description: Learning in Places is a concerted effort undertaken by an outstanding group of international researchers to create a resource book that can introduce academic, professional and lay readers to the field of informal learning/education and its potential to transform present educational thinking...read more

Product Description: This special issue of the International Review of Education includes contri­ butions on indigenous knowledge, the cultural context of learning and on the interplay between the so-called "traditional" and "modern" ways of educa­ tion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Lifelines" gives an account of four places of education for the underprivileged, each run on democratic lines. A look at some of the options for a more libertarian form of education.