Author : Patricia Hampl
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393319057
This now classic memoir, recounting the times when Hampl traveled to Prague in search of her Czech heritage, is available again. Includes an updated Afterword by the author.
Author : Monika M Elbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317671783
American publishing in the long nineteenth century was flooded with readers, primers, teaching-training manuals, children’s literature, and popular periodicals aimed at families. These publications attest to an abiding faith in the power of pedagogy that has its roots in transatlantic Romantic conceptions of pedagogy and literacy. The essays in this collection examine the on-going influence of Romanticism in the long nineteenth century on American thinking about education, as depicted in literary texts, in historical accounts of classroom dynamics, or in pedagogical treatises. They also point out that though this influence was generally progressive, the benefits of this social change did not reach many parts of American society. This book is therefore an important reference for scholars of Romantic studies, American studies, historical pedagogy and education.
Author : Charles Murray
Publisher : Crown Forum
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 0307405397
"The most talked-about education book this semester." —New York Times From the author of Coming Apart, and based on a series of controversial Wall Street Journal op-eds, this landmark manifesto gives voice to what everyone knows about talent, ability, and intelligence but no one wants to admit. With four truths as his framework, Charles Murray, the bestselling coauthor of The Bell Curve, sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America’s educational establishment. •Ability varies. Children differ in their ability to learn, but America’s educational system does its best to ignore this. •Half of the children are below average. Many children cannot learn more than rudimentary reading and math. Yet decades of policies have required schools to divert resources to unattainable goals. •Too many people are going to college. Only a fraction of students struggling to get a degree can profit from education at the college level. •America’s future depends on how we educate the academically gifted. It is time to start thinking about the kind of education needed by the young people who will run the country.
Author : Judith Ridge
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0763696714
Essays by popular children's authors reveal the books that shaped their personal and literary lives, explaining how the stories they loved influenced them creatively, politically, and intellectually.
Author : Alain de Botton
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780241985830
This is a book about everything you were never taught at school. It's about how to understand your emotions, find and sustain love, succeed in your career, fail well and overcome shame and guilt. It's also about letting go of the myth of a perfect life in order to achieve genuine emotional maturity. Written in a hugely accessible, warm and humane style, The School of Life is the ultimate guide to the emotionally fulfilled lives we all long for - and deserve. This book brings together ten years of essential and transformative research on emotional intelligence, with practical topics including: - how to understand yourself - how to master the dilemmas of relationships - how to become more effective at work - how to endure failure - how to grow more serene and resilient.
Author : John Willinsky
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,56 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0889205558
This international collection of essays by leading authorities in literature and education presents the first comprehensive view of the impact of Romanticism on education over the course of the last two centuries. Romanticism’s reconception of self, nature, writing and the imagination forms a chapter of intellectual history that has led to a number of innovative programs in the schools. The book returns to the educational thinking of key figures from the time—Rousseau, Wordsworth, Mary Shelley and Coleridge—before charting their influence on such historical and contemporary developments as Montessori schools, art education, free schools and current writing programs. The contributors tend to challenge common assumptions concerning Romanticism and do not shy away from its darker side; their work encompasses both theoretical considerations of Romantic and post-modern conceptions of the self and practical concerns with Romanticism’s potential for the school curriculum. The Educational Legacy of Romanticism represents a multi-disciplinary inquiry into the continuing influence which cultural endeavours can have on the social practices of society.
Author : Alan Richardson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 19,43 MB
Release : 1994-11-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521462762
In this wide-ranging and richly detailed book Alan Richardson addresses many issues in literary and educational history never before examined together. The result is an unprecedented study of how transformations in schooling and literacy in Britain between 1780 and 1832 helped shape the provision of literature as we know it. In chapters focused on such topics as definitions of childhood, educational methods and institutions, children's literature, female education, and publishing ventures aimed at working-class adults, Richardson demonstrates how literary genres, from fairy tales to epic poems, were enlisted in an ambitious program for transforming social relations through reading and education. Themes include literary developments such as the domestic novel, a sanitized and age-stratified literature for children, the invention of 'popular' literature, and the constitution of 'Literature' itself in the modern sense. Romantic texts - by Wordsworth, Shelley, Blake, and Yearsley among others - are reinterpreted in the light of the complex historical and social issues which inform them, and which they in turn critically address.
Author : Mary Richie
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Japan
ISBN :
Author : The School of Life
Publisher : School of Life
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,19 MB
Release : 2018-05
Category : Interpersonal relations
ISBN : 9780993538742
A fresh approach to matters of the heart, teaching us that success in love need never again be just a matter of luck.
Author : Frederick C. Beiser
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 2006-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674019806
This study restores and enhances the philosophical aspect of early German Romanticism, offering an understanding of the movement's origins, development, aims and accomplishments.
