598円 The idea of homeschooling is both frightening and exciting. It is an idea that takes you out of mainstream thought and has you questioning your validity as a good parent. The thinking that your child should be removed from a public or private school and isolated in a home environment undoubtedly ...

544円 IS HOMESCHOOLING STRESSING YOU OUT? Do you wonder whether your children are learning the right things? Does it seem like the longer you homeschool, the harder it gets? Do you sometimes ask yourself how other moms homeschool their children, keep their houses running smoothly and still hang onto th...

827円 A year before she was to retire, Dr. Ann Angell volunteered to start a new class at the Montessori public school where she'd been teaching for a decade. Her mission was to guide and encourage her students -- second, third, and fourth graders with a wide variety of strengths and weaknesses -- as t...

391円 Many writers starting out on their first book are put off by the idea of writing an outline first. Indeed they object to anything at all that isn’t actually writing the book. Most understand that they will be writing a draft at first and that this draft will then be polished into something suitab...

690円 A survival manual designed for the average person. Dealing primarily with the mental aspects of surviving many environments, this book allows the reader to understand the value in creating most needed items using a very small amount of "retail" goods. The ability to visualize is the most importan...

16,581円 Experiential education is a philosophy and methodology for building knowledge, developing skills, and clarifying values by engaging learners in direct experience and focused reflection. To understand experiential education, what should one be reading? This sourcebook introduces philosophers, educ...

10,612円 Modern societies demand high levels of literacy. The written word is pervasive; individuals with poor literacy skills are deeply disadvantaged; and governments are increasingly pre-occupied with the contribution that skills can make to economic growth. As a result, the basic skills of adult worke...

9,119円 Popular Education is a concept with many meanings. With the rise of national systems of education at the beginning of the nineteenth-century, it was related to the socially inclusive concept of citizenship coined by privileged members with vested interests in the urban society that could only be ...

11,772円 Place-based Curriculum Design provides pre-service and practicing teachers both the rationale and tools to create and integrate meaningful, place-based learning experiences for students. Practical, classroom-based curricular examples illustrate how teachers can engage the local and still be accou...

1,856円 'This is a remarkable book . . . Read it and use it: you may find you are doing nothing less than giving back to your children their childhood, while they still have the chance to live it' Mark Williams, Director, University of Oxford Mindfulness Centre and author of Mindfulness: Finding peace in...

1,856円 We live in a world surrounded by all the stuff that education is supposed to be about: machines, bodies, languages, cities, votes, mountains, energy, movement, plays, food, liquids, collisions, protests, stones, windows. But the way we've been taught often excludes all sorts of practical ways of ...

5,125円 Building Online Learning Communities: Effective Strategies for the Virtual Classroom, 2nd Edition Building Online Learning Communities further explores the development of virtual classroom environments that foster a sense of community and empower students to take charge of their learning to succe...