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Non-Formal Education eBooks

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  • Family Matters

    Why Homeschooling Makes Sense

    An honest, perceptive discussion of children, education, and our common life as a nation by the bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars. A high school English teacher, Guterson and his wife educate their own children at home. “A literate primer for anyone who wants to know more about alternatives to the schools” (Kirkus Reviews). Index. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Amish School

    by Sara Fisher ...
    Revised Edition! Sold more than 50,000 copies in earlier editions! The Old Order Amish believe that school prepares children for the Amish way of life, for the responsibilities of adulthood, and for eternity. Most communities conduct their own schools, usually taught by Amish teachers. Sara E. Fisher, an Old Order Amish woman, taught a one-room school for seven years. This is her fascinating ... Read more

    $6.95 USD

  • Afterschool Education

    Approaches to an Emerging Field

    The authors survey the current afterschool landscape and bring to light important issues and practices within the field, explore the challenges and opportunities facing afterschool education programs, and point to future directions for these burgeoning educational ventures.Afterschool education has grown in recent years into a vast and diverse enterprise. In the United States, young people spend ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Renewal of Education

    (CW 301)

    Series Book 9 - Education
    14 lectures, Basel, April 20-May 16, 1920 (CW 301)Following a lecture of November 27, 1919 requested by the Basel Department of Education, sixty members of the audience invited Rudolf Steiner to return and deliver a complete lecture course on his approach to education. These lectures are the result.Rudolf Steiner begins by outlining the gradual development of the child with the help of spiritual ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Real-Life Homeschooling

    The Stories of 21 Families Who Teach Their Children at Home

    The book that shows homeschooling in action!What does it really mean when parents say they homeschool their child or children? For Rhonda Barfield -- a homeschooler for the past 10 years -- the definition is as diverse as the 21 families she studies in this eye-opening book.Real-Life HomeschoolingFrom the city to the country, apartments to split-levels, you'll enter each household and see ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Happy Child

    Changing the Heart of Education

    The author of The Shimmering World proposes allowing children to follow their own educational path, thus enabling their curiosity to fuel their learning.In this thought-provoking new book, bestselling author Steven Harrison ventures far outside the box of traditional thinking about education. His radical proposal? Children naturally want to learn, he asserts, so let them direct their own education ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Working Knowledge

    Work-Based Learning and Education Reform

    Based on five years of research in high school and community college programs, this book explores the potential for using work-based learning as part of a broad education reform strategy. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Summer Learning

    Research, Policies, and Programs

    This book brings together up-to-date, research-based evidence concerning summer learning and provides descriptions and analyses of a range of summer school programs. The chapters present theory and data that explain both the phenomenon of summer learning loss and the potential for effective summer programs to mitigate loss and increase student achievement.Summer Learning: Research, Policies, and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Serve and Learn

    Implementing and Evaluating Service-learning in Middle and High Schools

    This volume makes two important contributions: First, it provides a framework grounded in theory and best professional practice that middle and high school teachers, their students, and community partners can use to design, implement, and evaluate service-learning projects that address authentic community needs. Second, it demonstrates ways collaborative service-learning can enhance students' ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Geographies of Girlhood

    Identities In-between

    Series series Inquiry and Pedagogy Across Diverse Contexts Series
    Geographies of Girlhood: Identities In-Between explores how adolescent girls come to understand themselves as female in this culture, particularly during a time when they are learning what it means to be a woman and their identities are in-between that of child and adult, girl and woman. It illuminates the everyday realities of adolescent girls and the real issues that concern them, rather than ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Stories For Circle Time and Assembly

    Developing Literacy Skills and Classroom Values

    by Mal Leicester ...
    Circle time is a very popular activity in today’s schools and creates a safe, fun environment where children can think about their relationships, their behaviour, and be honest about their problems and feelings.In this book, the highly successful and popular author Mal Leicester offers a range of lively and engrossing stories, poems and songs for use in circle time activities and assemblies. They ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Therapeutic Education

    Working alongside troubled and troublesome children

    The role of therapy in schools is a topic that has been significantly under-researched and often overlooked. Considering the number of students in full-time education with serious emotional and behavioural difficulties, the skills and tricks used by therapists can be usefully passed on to teachers in the classroom.This book traces a substantial four-year project that applied the principles of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Learning, Teaching, and Community

    Contributions of Situated and Participatory Approaches to Educational Innovation

    This volume brings together established and new scholarly voices to explore how participatory and situated approaches to learning can contribute to educational innovation. The contributors' critical examinations of educational programming and engagements provide insights into how educators, youth, families, and community members understand and enact their commitments to diversity and equitable ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians

    An Anthology of Oral History Education

    Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians is an invaluable resource to educators seeking to bring history alive for students at all levels. The anthology opens with chapters on the fundamentals of oral history and its place in the classroom, but its heart lies in nearly two dozen insightful personal essays by educators who have successfully incorporated oral history into their own teaching. ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Surviving and Succeeding in Difficult Classrooms

    by Paul Blum ...
    Following the success of the first edition, this revised second edition, brings the reader up-to-date with what it is like to be a teacher in a difficult class, and regularly faced with apathy, defiance and aggression.Sadly, numerous government initiatives since the 1998 publication of the first edition have not transformed the situation for teachers in difficult classrooms. Here, Paul Blum ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • In Principle, In Practice

    Museums as Learning Institutions

    Series series Learning Innovations Series
    The science museum field has made tremendous advances in understanding museum learning, but little has been done to consolidate and synethesize these findings to encourage widespread improvements in practice. By clearly presenting the most current knowledge of museum learning, In Principle, In Practice aims to promote effective programs and exhibitions, identify promising approaches for future ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Musical Visitors to Britain

    by Peter Gordon ...
    Series series Woburn Education Series
    Britain has attracted many musical visitors to its shores. A varied and often eccentric collection of individuals, some were invited by royalty with musical tastes, some were refugees from religious or political oppression, some were spies, and others came to escape debt or even charges of murder.This book paints a broad picture of the changing nature of musical life in Britain over the centuries, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Role of Military In Politics: A case Study of Bangladesh

    The book is an in-depth study on the various issues involved in the politics of Bangladesh. The efforts have been made all through to find out what remains the basis as far as the functioning of military and politics is concerned. The polity of Bangladesh has been analysed through its establishment and through the independent years for restoration and development of democratic processes at the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Sex Education

    by Anil Jha ...
    For the past few years, there has been much debate over the adoption, implementation, and maintenance of comprehensive health and sexuality education programs in public schools. Advocates of school based comprehensive health education programs often use a public health approach to substantiate their position. In this study, I analyze the process by which individuals, community based groups and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Manga High

    Literacy, Identity, and Coming of Age in an Urban High School

    by Michael Bitz ...
    Based on a four-year study, Manga High explores the convergence of literacy, creativity, social development, and personal identity in one of New York City’s largest high schools.Since 2004, students at Martin Luther King, Jr., High School in Manhattan have been creating manga—Japanese comic books. They write the stories, design the characters, and publish their works in print and on the Internet. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Transformational Teaching

    Waldorf-Inspired Methods in the Public School

    by Mary Goral ...
    We have the power to transform our public schools--not through government mandates or the newest "teacher-proof" text series, and not through what many educators call "best practices." Our schools can be transformed by applying Waldorf-inspired practices into the public-school setting. This little-known, but well established form of education can be an invaluable source of ideas and strategies to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Homeschooling for Excellence

    Break away from the failiings of schools and embrace the power of homeschooling through the guidance of the Colfax family's teachings.For over fifteen years, David and Micki Colfax educated their children at home. They don't think of themselves as pioneers, though that's what they became. Unhappy with the public schools, the Colfaxes wanted the best education possible for their four sons: a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Homework for Grown-ups

    Everything You Learnt at School...and Promptly Forgot

    A nostalgic compendium of essential knowledge that can help you show the world that you’re smarter than a ten-year-old after all!Have you ever stared blankly at your kids when they’ve asked why the sky is blue? Or clumsily changed the subject when they’ve wanted to know why the wind blows? If you’re done with school, it’s likely you’re also done knowing the difference between an isosceles and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Educating for Character

    How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

    Calls for renewed moral education in America's schools, offering dozens of programs schools can adopt to teach students respect, responsibility, hard work, and other values that should not be left to parents to teach. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD