The Palgrave international handbook of alternative education. ([2016])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The Palgrave international handbook of alternative education. ([2016])
- Main Title:
- The Palgrave international handbook of alternative education
- Other Titles:
- International handbook of alternative education
- Further Information:
- Note: Helen E. Lees, Nel Noddings, editors.
- Editors:
- Lees, Helen E (Helen Elizabeth)
- Contents:
- List of figures -- List of tables -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction & this handbook / Nel Noddings and Helen E. Lees -- Part I. Thinking differently: 2. The mind of the educator / Kris De Meyer; 3. An ordinary day / Philipp Klaus; 4. Mother nature's pedagogy: how children educate themselves / Peter Gray; 5. Using the future in education: creating space for openness, hope and novelty / Keri Facer; 6. Promise and peril of neuroscience for alternative education / Clarence W. Joldersma; 7. What might have been: women's traditional interests / Nel Noddings; 8. Psychoanalysis and the challenge of educational fantasies / Roger Willoughby and Hivren Demir-Atay; 9. Great expectations: agenda and authority in technological, hidden and cultural curriculums / Harriet Pattison and Alan Thomas; 10. Alternatives to education? Impotentiality and the accident: new bearings in the ontology of the present / Nick Peim; 11. Educational mutuality / Helen E. Lees -- Part II. Doing differently: 12. Home education: practices, purposes, and possibilities / Robert Kunzman; 13. School ethics with student teachers in South Africa: an innovative educational intervention / Karin Murris; 14. Innovative experiences in holistic education inspiring a new movement in Brazil / Helena Singer; 15. Learning at the edge of chaos: self-organising systems in education / Sugata Mitra, Suneeta Kulkarni and James Stanfield; 16. Fostering alternative education in society: the caring communities of "children's dreamList of figures -- List of tables -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction & this handbook / Nel Noddings and Helen E. Lees -- Part I. Thinking differently: 2. The mind of the educator / Kris De Meyer; 3. An ordinary day / Philipp Klaus; 4. Mother nature's pedagogy: how children educate themselves / Peter Gray; 5. Using the future in education: creating space for openness, hope and novelty / Keri Facer; 6. Promise and peril of neuroscience for alternative education / Clarence W. Joldersma; 7. What might have been: women's traditional interests / Nel Noddings; 8. Psychoanalysis and the challenge of educational fantasies / Roger Willoughby and Hivren Demir-Atay; 9. Great expectations: agenda and authority in technological, hidden and cultural curriculums / Harriet Pattison and Alan Thomas; 10. Alternatives to education? Impotentiality and the accident: new bearings in the ontology of the present / Nick Peim; 11. Educational mutuality / Helen E. Lees -- Part II. Doing differently: 12. Home education: practices, purposes, and possibilities / Robert Kunzman; 13. School ethics with student teachers in South Africa: an innovative educational intervention / Karin Murris; 14. Innovative experiences in holistic education inspiring a new movement in Brazil / Helena Singer; 15. Learning at the edge of chaos: self-organising systems in education / Sugata Mitra, Suneeta Kulkarni and James Stanfield; 16. Fostering alternative education in society: the caring communities of "children's dream park" and "free space en" in Japan / Yoshiyuki Nagata. 17. Teacher education: generator of change or a mechanism for educational conformity? / Ian Menter; 18. Philosophy with children: an imaginative democratic practice / Joanna Haynes; 19. Forest school: a model for learning holistically and outdoors / Sara Knight; 20. Creating spaces for autonomy: the architecture of learning and thinking in Danish schools and universities / Max A. Hope and Catherine Montgomery -- Part III. Acting differently: 21. Exploration and rethinking: student-voice studies in China / Kan Wei; 22. Islamic education as asymmetrical democratic interaction / Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast; 23. Is Low-fee private schooling in developing countries really an "alternative"? / Clive Harber; 24. Humanist schools in the face of conflicting narratives and social upheaval: the case of Israel / Nimrod Aloni; 25. Geographies of trust: a politics of resistance for an alternative education / John Smyth; 26. Alternatives to school sex education / Michael J. Reiss; 27. Critical animal pedagogies: re-learning our relations with animal others / Karin Gunnarsson Dinker and Helena Pedersen; 28. Solitude and spirituality in schooling: the alternative at the heart of the school / Julian Stern; 29. German Kinderlaeden: from alternative projects to professional pedagogy / Robert Hamm; 30. Attachment aware schools: an alternative to behaviourism in supporting children's behaviour? / Richard Parker, Janet Rose and Louise Gilbert. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations
- Subjects:
- 371.04
Education
Alternative education -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Education_xPhilosophy
Early childhood education
Educational psychology
Alternative education
Education -- Preschool & Kindergarten
Education -- Educational Psychology
Education -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General
Pre-school & kindergarten
Teaching skills & techniques
Educational strategies & policy
Educational psychology
Education -- Philosophy & Social Aspects
Philosophy & theory of education
Electronic books
Handbooks and manuals - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781786846907
9781137412911
1137412917 - Related ISBNs:
- 178684690X
9781137412904 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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