Learning Outside The Academy

Author : Richard Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134213964
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning Outside the Academy written by Richard Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book weaves together different strands of research in the area of lifelong learning that concentrates particularly on learning in alternative settings and ways, such experiential learning and informal and community learning. Drawing upon international research, the book examines how these strands of research can contribute to each other. The contributions to this book are based on material presented at a conference at the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning, UK, and they focus on research into key issues of policy and practice in lifelong learning. Establishing a wider framework for debate about the meaning and significance of lifelong learning, this timely and thought-provoking book provides practitioners in the field with a relevant and current discussion on some very important ideas about non-formal education.

Author : Richard Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134213956
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning Outside the Academy written by Richard Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book weaves together different strands of research in the area of lifelong learning that concentrates particularly on learning in alternative settings and ways, such experiential learning and informal and community learning. Drawing upon international research, the book examines how these strands of research can contribute to each other. The contributions to this book are based on material presented at a conference at the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning, UK, and they focus on research into key issues of policy and practice in lifelong learning. Establishing a wider framework for debate about the meaning and significance of lifelong learning, this timely and thought-provoking book provides practitioners in the field with a relevant and current discussion on some very important ideas about non-formal education.

Author : Daniel James Rowley
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategic Choices for the Academy written by Daniel James Rowley and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1998-04-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Choices for the Academy is filled with practical advice for developing strategic plans that will transform colleges and universities to meet the demands of today's (and tomorrow's) information age learner. Drawing on the strategic planning and management concepts, the authors reveal which innovative organizational structures, facilities, teaching approaches, reward systems, and delivery systems are most effective for providing education to this new segment of learners - those who come to learn in every stage of life and who may be increasingly reluctant to enroll in traditional campus settings. The book also presents a series of flexible models that can be adapted to the strategic direction and needs of individual institutions.

Author : Joseph Fruscione
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700626883
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Succeeding Outside the Academy written by Joseph Fruscione and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not every PhD becomes a professor. Some never want to, but others discover—too late and ill-prepared to look elsewhere—that there’s precious little room in today’s ivory tower, and what’s there might not be a good fit. For those leaving academia, or wanting out, or finding themselves adrift, this book offers hope, advice, and a bracing look at how others facing the same quandary have made careers outside of the academy work. All of the authors in this volume, as well as the editors, have built successful careers beyond the groves of academia—as freelance editors and writers, consultants and lecturers, librarians, realtors, and entrepreneurs—and each has a compelling story to tell. Their accounts afford readers a firsthand view of what it takes to transition from professor to professional. They also give plenty of practical advice, along with hard-won insights into what making a move beyond the academy might entail—emotionally, intellectually, and, not least, financially. Imparting what they wish they’d known during their PhDs, these writers aim to spare those who follow in their uncertain footsteps. Together their essays point the way out of the “tenure track or bust” mindset and toward a world of different but no less rewarding possibilities.

Author : Robert Pondiscio
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525533753
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How The Other Half Learns written by Robert Pondiscio and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside look at America's most controversial charter schools, and the moral and political questions around public education and school choice. The promise of public education is excellence for all. But that promise has seldom been kept for low-income children of color in America. In How the Other Half Learns, teacher and education journalist Robert Pondiscio focuses on Success Academy, the network of controversial charter schools in New York City founded by Eva Moskowitz, who has created something unprecedented in American education: a way for large numbers of engaged and ambitious low-income families of color to get an education for their children that equals and even exceeds what wealthy families take for granted. Her results are astonishing, her methods unorthodox. Decades of well-intended efforts to improve our schools and close the "achievement gap" have set equity and excellence at war with each other: If you are wealthy, with the means to pay private school tuition or move to an affluent community, you can get your child into an excellent school. But if you are poor and black or brown, you have to settle for "equity" and a lecture--about fairness. About the need to be patient. And about how school choice for you only damages public schools for everyone else. Thousands of parents have chosen Success Academy, and thousands more sit on waiting lists to get in. But Moskowitz herself admits Success Academy "is not for everyone," and this raises uncomfortable questions we'd rather not ask, let alone answer: What if the price of giving a first-rate education to children least likely to receive it means acknowledging that you can't do it for everyone? What if some problems are just too hard for schools alone to solve?

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309141133
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning Science in Informal Environments written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informal science is a burgeoning field that operates across a broad range of venues and envisages learning outcomes for individuals, schools, families, and society. The evidence base that describes informal science, its promise, and effects is informed by a range of disciplines and perspectives, including field-based research, visitor studies, and psychological and anthropological studies of learning. Learning Science in Informal Environments draws together disparate literatures, synthesizes the state of knowledge, and articulates a common framework for the next generation of research on learning science in informal environments across a life span. Contributors include recognized experts in a range of disciplines-research and evaluation, exhibit designers, program developers, and educators. They also have experience in a range of settings-museums, after-school programs, science and technology centers, media enterprises, aquariums, zoos, state parks, and botanical gardens. Learning Science in Informal Environments is an invaluable guide for program and exhibit designers, evaluators, staff of science-rich informal learning institutions and community-based organizations, scientists interested in educational outreach, federal science agency education staff, and K-12 science educators.

Author : Matthew L. Sanders
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781533926937
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming a Learner written by Matthew L. Sanders and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explains why becoming a learner, rather than acquiring specific job skills, is the primary purpose of higher education.

Author : Narelle Lemon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811321434
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mindfulness in the Academy written by Narelle Lemon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the way academics understand, embrace and enact the concepts of mindfulness in approaching their work in demanding and dynamic contemporary higher education environments. It examines how they implement formal and informal mindfulness practices that increase the capacity to transform mind and body states by drawing on concepts such as compassion, kindness, gratitude, curiosity, self-awareness and non-judgemental stances. The book provides insights into and highlights the struggles of scholars through their experiences and perspectives in relation to their identities, practices and job enactment. Each chapter author explains their mindfulness practices and their motivations for implementing them, and explores how mindful ways of researching, writing, learning and teaching, leading, and engaging with others leads us to self-awareness and engagement in the present.

Author : Sue Waite
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1526421348
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children Learning Outside the Classroom written by Sue Waite and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how the outdoor environment is enriching learning opportunities for children and deepening their connections with the natural world.

Author : Christy Kulz
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526116200
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Factories for learning written by Christy Kulz and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over half of England’s secondary schools are now academies. While their impact on achievement has been debated, the social and cultural outcomes prompted by this neoliberal educational model has received less scrutiny. This book draws on original research based at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated flagship secondary school in a large English city, to show how the accelerated marketization and centralization of education is reproducing raced, classed and gendered inequalities. The book also examines the complex stories underlying Dreamfields’ glossy veneer of success and shows how students, teachers and parents navigate the everyday demands of Dreamfields’ results-driven conveyor belt. Hopes and dreams are effectively harnessed and mobilized to enact insidious forms of social control, as education develops new sites and discourses of surveillance.