Product Description: Book by Perraton

Product Description: Combining case studies with a theoretical framework, educators, sociologists, and economists examine the learning process and its outcomes in terms of the social, political, and economic well-being of participants in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

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Product Description: Book by Christensen, B. R.

Product Description: We live in a society with ever-changing needs and expectations. Education practitioners and policy makers need therefore to face the challenges of new economic, social and technological conditions in their work. There is a global concern to develop forms of education and training which are open to the demands of needs of learners, and which are accessible at times and places suitable to those learners...read more

There is neither a singular point of view, nor any preferred direction for viewing the architecture of Italian-born Massimiliano Fuksas. Always attentive to materials, Fuksas chooses those that, while classic, are rediscovered, used differently, and rendered unconventional in his hands. One such material is the tuff, an ancient volcanic stone discovered by the Etruscans. At the Fuksas-designed Cemetery in Orvieto, Italy, the tuff is cut at 45-degree angles and used "dry," without cement between each block. Zinc can be found in several projects: prelacquered black for his Media Library in Reze, all white for Saint-Exupery College in Noisy-le-Grand, or natural for the large "wave" of housing in Candie Saint-Bernard, a stone's throw from the Bastille. Other examples include the pre-oxidized copper for the Arts Center in Bordeaux and the Cor-ten steel for the great wings of that strange prehistoric animal at the entrance of the Cave Painting Museum in Niaux, in the Pyrenees. The projects shown in this collection of Fuksas's European work represent a diversity of styles, colors, and perspectives always mindful of context, yet unique in their own individual ways.-Aaron Betsky (view table of contents)

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)

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)

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.

Product Description: The Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC) at the University of Hong Kong is proud and privileged to present this book in its series CERC Studies in Comparative Education. Alan Rogers is a distinguished figure in the field of non-formal education, and brings to this volume more than three decades of experience...read more

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: In advancing the vision of adult learning articulated at the International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA V) held in Hamburg in 1997, the UNESCO Institute for Education has been conducting studies on the different areas and dimensions of ‘Adult Learning and the Changing World of Work’...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 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

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: Unschooling isn't a technique - it's living and learning naturally, lovingly, and respectfully together.The Unschooling Unmanual features 11 essays by 8 writers: Nanda Van Gestel, Jan Hunt, Daniel Quinn, Rue Kream, Kim Houssenloge, Earl Stevens, and Mary Van Doren...read more

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.

Educational theory and practice have long been dominated by the requirements of formal learning. This book seeks to persuade readers through philosophical argument and empirical examples that the balance should shift back towards the informal. The arguments and examples derive from informal learning in diverse situations, such as leisure activities, as a preparation for and as part of work, and as a means of surviving undesirable circumstances like dead-end jobs and incarceration.

Visitor evaluations provide clues to the effectiveness of exhibits and programs, and provide insights into how people learn in informal educational settings. In Practical Evaluation Guide, Judy Diamond presents the basic principles and techniques needed to design, implement and present an evaluation project. Diamond's clearly and simply written guide gives you the tools needed for studying the behavior and learning of people in informal educational settings, including how to plan an evaluation, evaluate evaluators, perform visitor observations, conduct interviews, design questionnaires, sample audiences, analyze qualitative and quantitative data, write reports, and much more. An extremely useful tool for anyone seeking guidance on how to set up competent, reliable evaluations in informal educational settings.