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Beyond the Classroom Walls

Imagining the Future of Education, from Community Schools to Communiversities

By: Bertram C. Bruce

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Beyond the Classroom Walls

Imagining the Future of Education, from Community Schools to Communiversities

By: Bertram C. Bruce

The book asks readers to adopt a critical and comprehensive view of education (pre-K to lifelong learning) as existing both within classroom walls, and in the surrounding world, including communities and workplaces. It presents an integrated view of online learning, community schools, communiversities, and learning through work. Our educational systems are organized in ways that make this integration difficult. We have elaborate systems of formal instruction––academies, schools, universities, and training institutes––all to facilitate learning within the walls. At the same time we have ample opportunities for learning in the wild. Unfortunately these systems diverge to the point that they do little to support learning that allows us to draw from both of the realms of knowledge. But it is possible to bring together learning within the walls with that beyond the walls. Moreover it is crucial to make these connections in the world of today. In order to bring together the classroom and daily life we need an educational system that does that as well.The book provides a coherent account of how schooling can and should relate to learning beyond the classroom walls.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475867131

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9781475867138

Education's Ecosystems

Learning through Life

By: Bertram C. Bruce

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Education's Ecosystems

Learning through Life

By: Bertram C. Bruce

Education’s Ecosystems offers a new perspective on learning that is integrated and connected to lived experience. It presents a model for salient characteristics of both biological and pedagogical ecosystems, involving diversity, interaction, emergence, construction, interpretation. Examples from around the world show how learning can be made more whole and relevant. The book should be valuable to educators, parents, policy makers, and anyone interested in democratic education.

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195

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475851219

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9781475851212

Electronic Quills

A Situated Evaluation of Using Computers for Writing in Classrooms

By: Bertram C. Bruce,Andee Rubin,with contributi Barnhardt and Teachers

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Electronic Quills

A Situated Evaluation of Using Computers for Writing in Classrooms

By: Bertram C. Bruce,Andee Rubin,with contributi Barnhardt and Teachers

This volume centers on the words and experiences of teachers and students who used QUILL -- a software package developed by the authors to aid in writing instruction. It looks in detail at the stories of these early users and considers questions relevant for other teachers, students, researchers, and developers of educational innovations. Questions posed include: * What does it mean to develop an environment for literacy in an actual classroom? * How can a teacher create an environment in which students work together toward meaningful goals? * How can a teacher promote the rich communication so necessary for developing language? * What is the role of technology in the practice and development of literacy? The examination of the QUILL experiences provides a fuller and more revealing account of what it meant to use QUILL than would have been possible through standard evaluation techniques. At the same time, the focus on the particulars also finds analogues in analyses of similar pieces of open-ended software or educational innovations in general.

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Routledge

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1136690565

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9781136690563

Beyond the Classroom Walls

Imagining the Future of Education, from Community Schools to Communiversities

By: Bertram C. Bruce

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Imagining the Future of Education, from Community Schools to Communiversities

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Education's Ecosystems

Learning through Life

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Learning through Life

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Thinking with Maps

Understanding the World through Spatialization

By: Bertram C. Bruce

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Thinking with Maps

Understanding the World through Spatialization

By: Bertram C. Bruce

A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Spatial reasoning, which promises connection across wide areas, is itself ironically often not connected to other areas of knowledge. Thinking with Maps: Understanding the World through Spatialization addresses this problem, developing its argument through historical analysis and cross-disciplinary examples involving maps. The idea of maps here includes traditional cartographic representations of physical environments, but more broadly encompasses the wide variety of ways that visualizations are used across all disciplines to enable understanding, to generate new knowledge, and to effect change. The idea of thinking with maps is also used broadly. Maps become, not simply one among many items to learn about, but indispensable tools for thinking across every field of inquiry, in a way similar to that of textual and mathematical language. Effective use of maps becomes a way to make knowledge, much as writing or mathematical exploration not only displays ideas, but also creates them. The book shows that maps for thinking are not just a means to improve geographic knowledge, as valuable as that may be. Instead, they provide mechanisms for rejuvenating our engagement with the world, helping us to become more capable of facing our global challenges. This book has a broader aim: It is fundamentally about general principles of how we learn and know. It calls for a renewed focus on democratic education in which both the means and ends are democratic. Education, just as the political realm, should follow Dewey’s dictum that “democratic ends need democratic methods for their realization.” Maps and mapping are invaluable in that endeavor.

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1475859309

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9781475859300

Progressive Education in Nepal: The Community is the Curriculum

By: Bertram C. Bruce

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Progressive Education in Nepal: The Community is the Curriculum

By: Bertram C. Bruce

Nepal is a country with daunting needs in terms of basic education and other social services. At the same time, its cultural and moral wealth provide a strong basis for meaningful life and learning. In particular, it offers fertile ground for progressive education, in which learning grows out of experiences in the community. Thus, despite material poverty, the country holds the possibility of significant advances, even international leadership, in the area of progressive education. This book reports on recent educational innovations. There are more than 100 color photos.

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Lulu.com

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0359182445

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9780359182442

Thinking with Maps

Understanding the World through Spatialization

By: Bertram C. Bruce

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Understanding the World through Spatialization

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Book's by Bertram C. Bruce

Beyond the Classroom Walls

Beyond the Classroom Walls

Education's Ecosystems

Education's Ecosystems

Electronic Quills

Electronic Quills

Beyond the Classroom Walls

Beyond the Classroom Walls

Education's Ecosystems

Education's Ecosystems

Thinking with Maps

Thinking with Maps

Progressive Education in Nepal: The Community is the Curriculum

Progressive Education in Nepal: The Community is the Curriculum

Thinking with Maps

Thinking with Maps

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