Drawing from his teaching experience, David Boers presents effective strategies for creating a classroom environment conducive to meaningful learning. Supported by relevant literature and research, the book emphasizes practical approaches that educators can implement to enhance student engagement and success.
History of American Education Primer depicts the evolution of American educational history from 1630 to the present. The book highlights how ideological managers have shaped society and, because schools mirror society, have thus had a profound impact on education and schooling. Five common areas of study – philosophy, politics, economics, social sciences, and religion – are used to trace the development of both society and schooling in the United States. Readers will identify not only trends and movements in society and schooling, but also how they logically unfold over time. Furthermore, they will gain a keen insight as to why trends and movements in education have occurred in the past and how they connect to the present.This book is a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in educational foundations, social foundations, educational history, critical issues, schools and politics, schools and society, philosophical foundations, and religious foundations of American schooling.
Sensing a Life through Stages of Thinking presents random examples of sometimes connected and sometimes disconnected thoughts and perceptions over a lifetime of attempting to sense every moment. Within them exist joy, sorrow, trepidation, confidence, insecurity, disappointment, resolve, failure, doubt, love, shock, excitement, fear, anger, fun, apathy, and other, common to all, emotions of life. The poems in this collection may appeal to readers by describing the reflections they will see in their own lives as they read compelling thoughts about real-life experiences they may have in common with the author. This could be an awakening of sorts for those who want to get closer in touch with the stages of their own lives and how their thinking and emotions evolved over a lifetime. It should also be entertaining and curious as readers investigate the connections between and among the poems that depict how a life and its events have unfolded in time and space.
Uncovering Black Heroes is a series of essays regarding real people who are not so well-known in the mainstream of American freedom and civil rights discussion.