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Pedagogy Of Relation

Education After Reform

By: Alexander M. Sidorkin

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Pedagogy Of Relation

Education After Reform

By: Alexander M. Sidorkin

This book defines and galvanizes a new approach to education through refocusing it on human relations. Following on the heels of lackluster accountability- and choice-based reforms, this approach suggests that meaningful educational change depends on recognition that relations between students and teachers and among students are critically important. Stakeholders must create intentional policies and practices that allow the relational side of education to flourish. Focusing on the PK-12 educational system, Pedagogy of Relation provides support for the claim that relations are the basis for successful learning—that education is a profoundly social activity—and to push educational reform in a new direction.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000744248

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Beyond Discourse

Education, the Self, and Dialogue

By: Alexander M. Sidorkin

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Beyond Discourse

Education, the Self, and Dialogue

By: Alexander M. Sidorkin

Drawing on the works of Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin, the author explores the roles that dialogue, laughter, and spontaneity play in the education of the whole person.

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SUNY Press

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0791442470

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9780791442470

Embracing Chatbots in Higher Education

The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Teaching, Administration, and Scholarship

By: Alexander M. Sidorkin

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Embracing Chatbots in Higher Education

The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Teaching, Administration, and Scholarship

By: Alexander M. Sidorkin

This book explores the integration of AI-powered chatbots such as ChatGPT into higher education for instructional and communication purposes. The author emphasizes the responsibility of higher education institutions to equip students with advanced skills for writing with AI assistance, and prepare them for an increasingly AI-driven world. Offering numerous practical tips, the book demonstrates how universities can increase student success, and stem the rising cost of higher education by employing AI tools. The chapters discuss streamlining tasks such as grading, providing feedback, and handling administrative duties, to show how educators can be enabled to focus on more meaningful aspects of their work. The author also reflects on the philosophical and ethical considerations and potential pitfalls of relying on AI in higher education, including concerns about academic integrity and the importance of human input in the learning process. The author offers a responsible and informed approach to incorporating the new powerful tools into the academic landscape. This volume will be a key resource for higher education faculty and administrators seeking to navigate the complex intersection of AI and writing.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040019560

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9781040019566

Labor of Learning

Market and the Next Generation of Educational Reform

By: Alexander Sidorkin

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Labor of Learning

Market and the Next Generation of Educational Reform

By: Alexander Sidorkin

This book is about the end of an era in education. It argues that schooling as we know it will cease to exist and be replaced with something else. Education will undergo a radical, fundamental change, replacing traditional compulsory schooling with a market-based system of learning that is finely tuned to demand and does not rely on extra-economic coercion. The premise of the book is to treat school learning as a form of labor. Its genre lies somewhere between educational theory and a political economy of education. The author explores the origins of the contemporary mass schooling models and redefines school learning in terms of labor, with special reference to genesis of education and to the history of childhood in its connection with schooling. Schools are described as islands of non-market, semi-feudal economies in the midst of the sea of markets, which explains some of the most common worries about learning motivation. The book offers several critiques of the most influential thoughts on schooling today: Progressivism, the Human Capital theory, the belief in intrinsic motivation, the voucher movement and the accountability reform. And finally, it outlines two alternative solutions for educational problems which stem from the essential lack of learning motivation. This book is an invitation to resurrect the tradition of asking fundamental questions about education. Improving what is essentially a flawed institution can take us only so far; the author is inviting the reader to go further.

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BRILL

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9087907591

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9789087907594

Beyond Discourse

Education, the Self, and Dialogue

By: Alexander M. Sidorkin

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Education, the Self, and Dialogue

By: Alexander M. Sidorkin

Using Mikhail Bakhtin's concepts of dialogue and carnival, and in connection with the ideas of Martin Buber, Sidorkin explores the issues of difference and identity in a very postmodern view of the self. He addresses the questions of what it really means to be human, and, likewise, what truly makes a good school. He takes dialogue beyond the framework of discourse, making it an end in itself rather than a means toward better education. His sojourn into a fifth-grade classroom shows that basic forms of classroom talk, which are normally thought to be distracting or educationally useless, are proved to be valuable dialogical moments of discovery in schooling.

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State University of New York Press

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1438419953

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9781438419954

Book's by Alexander M. Sidorkin

Pedagogy Of Relation

Pedagogy Of Relation

Beyond Discourse

Beyond Discourse

Embracing Chatbots in Higher Education

Embracing Chatbots in Higher Education

Labor of Learning

Labor of Learning

Beyond Discourse

Beyond Discourse

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