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Philosophy of Education in a New Key: East Asia. (A Collective Project of the PESA Executive)
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Hung, Ruyu; Zhengmei, Peng; Kato, Morimichi; Nishihira, Tadashi; Okabe, Mika; Di, Xu; Kwak, Duck-Joo; Hwang, Keumjoong; Tschong, Youngkun; Chien, Cheng-His; Peters, Michael A.; Tesar, Marek – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2021
In the year of 2020, the project of the collective writing on the theme 'Philosophy of education in a new key' (Peters, 2020) was launched to explore possibilities of thinking philosophy of education through collective efforts and intelligence. Its leading tone 'Harmonic Cadence' (Peters, 2020) means that the new field for philosophy of education…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Aesthetics, Asian Culture, Learning Processes
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Gardner, John R., Ed. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2005
This book provides a comprehensive overview of assessment used to support learning, and it makes this area accessible and understandable for a wise range of users. This unique text is a major source of practice-based theory on assessment for learning, a formative assessment to support individual development and motivate learners. Key areas covered…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Formative Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Student Motivation
Personality and Biography: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the History of Adult Education. Volume II: Biographies of Adult Educators from Five Continents.
Friedenthal-Haase, Martha, Ed. – 1998
This volume contains 36 biographies: "I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson and Radical Adult Education (AE) in Sierra Leone in the Years 1938/1939" (Turay); "Frank C. Laubach as the Father of the Adult Literacy Movement in India" (Ghosh); "A Historical Study on the Theory and Practice of Social and AE in Korea" (Lee); "Integrative Adult Educators" (Yaron);…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Biographies, Educational Change
Personality and Biography: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the History of Adult Education. Volume I: General, Comparative, and Synthetic Studies.
Friedenthal-Haase, Martha, Ed. – 1998
This volume includes the following papers: "Foreword: The Standing International Conference on the History of Adult Education (AE)" (Franz Poeggeler); "Editor's Introduction: Perspectives on the Sixth International Conference on the History of AE" (Martha Friedenthal-Haase); two special addresses by Joerg Prinzhausen and Ursula…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Biographies, Developed Nations
Educational Resilience in Inner-City America. Challenges and Prospects.
Wang, Margaret C., Ed.; Gordon, Edmund W., Ed. – 1994
This collection attempts to broaden understanding of how to magnify circumstances known to enhance development and education in order to advance opportunities for all children, especially children and youth of the inner cities. Focuses are on raising consciousness about opportunities available to foster resilience and on synthesizing the knowledge…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Blacks, Context Effect, Educational Change
Holistic Education: Principles, Perspectives and Practices. A Book of Readings Based on "Education 2000: A Holistic Perspective."
Flake, Carol L., Ed. – 1993
In 1991 a conference of holistic educators produced "Education 2000: A Holistic Perspective," a statement of what education should be and an examination of holistic theory. This book expands that work with 59 articles exploring the principles of holistic education and describing holistic education programs. Holistic education calls for…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Consciousness Raising, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Development