Transformative learning

Transformative Learning presents a "learn-by-doing" pedagogy informed by ecology and developed over thirty years at Schumacher College that integrates head, heart, and hands into multi-disciplinary education for living in harmony with others and the Earth.

Scripting the moves

An inside look at a "no-excuses" charter school that reveals this educational model’s strengths and weaknesses, and how its approach shapes studentsSilent, single-file lines. Detention for putting a head on a desk. Rules for how to dress, how to applaud, how to complete homework. Walk into some o...

Super courses

From the bestselling author of What the Best College Teachers Do, the story of a new breed of amazingly innovative courses that inspire students and improve learningDecades of research have produced profound insights into how student learning and motivation can be unleashed—and it’s not through t...

Working well with babies

The nine competencies needed for educators to provide optimal support for infants and toddlers.

Let's be reasonable

A conservative college professor's compelling defense of liberal educationNot so long ago, conservative intellectuals such as William F. Buckley Jr. believed universities were worth fighting for. Today, conservatives seem more inclined to burn them down. In Let's Be Reasonable, conservative polit...

Good fortune next time

Will Wootton’s personal excursion into the sometimes perilous workings of small colleges is vivified by his evocative and literary writing

Beyond behavior management

Guide and manage young children's behavior by helping them build and use essential life skills.

Global exchanges

The first comprehensive book on the history of scholarship programs A book which takes into account all geographic areas A book focusing on the human dimension of scholarship programs A book that investigates the political, economic, and cultural interests involved in exchanges

Make early learning standards come alive

Updated curriculum planning guide reflecting the continuing evolution of early learning standards for preschool children across the country

In the deep heart's core

In the fall of 1997, Michael Johnston went to the rural Mississippi Delta — the "deep heart's core" of the South — as a member of the Teach for America program, to become an English teacher in one of the poorest districts in the nation. At Greenville High School, he confronted a racially divided ...

Doing the right thing for children

The dynamic and respected Maurice Sykes's call to leadership within the early childhood community to do right by children

The struggle to reform our colleges

Why efforts to improve American higher educational attainment haven't worked, and where to go from hereDuring the first decade of this century, many commentators predicted that American higher education was about to undergo major changes that would be brought about under the stimulus of online le...

Planning for play, observation, and learning in preschool and kindergarten

Plan developmentally appropriate, play-based curriculum for early childhood classrooms.

Building sensory friendly classrooms to support children with challenging behaviors

Rebecca Moyes, a teacher, author, renowned lecturer, and mother of a child with Asperger's Syndrome, helps walk any regular education or special education teacher through the process of setting up a sensory-friendly classroom in this easy to use book. This is currently the only book that discu...

Reflecting in communities of practice

The latest resource from esteemed early childhood authors Margie Carter and Deb Curtis, and introducing Wendy Cividanes and Debbie Lebo.

Learning from the bumps in the road

A team of the early childhood field's foremost experts and presenters share insight and perspectives on twelve professional development topics.

Inspiring wonder, awe, and empathy

Inspire wonder, awe and empathy in children, and guide them in their spiritual development to appreciate the world

Everywhere all the time

What's wrong with our education? School! A new direction for a nurturing and effective pedagogy.

Trouble in the university

In this incisive critique of corruption throughout higher education, Schwartz draws on extensive research into New Jersey’s University of Medicine.

The sensory detective curriculum

Understanding our sensory processing ability helps us to understand our likes, dislikes, and the strategies we use to help keep ourselves in a calm, alert state. This calm, alert state is necessary for learning! Knowing how to stay regulated is a life skill. The Sensory Detective Curriculum ...

I learn from children

“A lucid presentation of what progressive education can accomplish.”—The New York TimesHow should schools prepare students for the Information Age? The successful worker of the future – a creative, independent thinker who works well in teams—would seem to be too self-contradictory to be the delib...

Wisdom's workshop

An essential history of the modern research universityWhen universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite re...

Feminist pedagogy in higher education

In this new collection, contributors from a variety of disciplines provide a critical context for the relationship between feminist pedagogy and academic feminism by exploring the complex ways that critical perspectives can be brought into the classroom.

Death of the public university?

Continuous government reforms to make universities ‘world class’, entrepreneurial and drivers of the knowledge economy, are transforming the traditional mission and meaning of the public university and its ability to act as ‘critic and conscience’ of society. This collection explores the new la...

"don't get so upset!"

"Don't Get So Upset!" helps childcare providers understand their own uncomfortable feelings, making it easier to help children do the same.

High-quality early childhood programs

An invaluable tool for the director/supervisor striving to identify what aspects of an early childhood program need improvement.

Teaching stem literacy

Creative ideas for three-dimensional STEM learning that are developmentally appropriate and exemplified through children’s literature

Anti-bias curriculum for the preschool classroom

Easily incorporate anti-bias and play-based learning into your current curriculum

Hindi is our ground, english is our sky

A critical, ethnographically rich study of education, language, and social class in India. A theoretically grounded study of language use, language ideology, and globalization. Demonstrates the necessity of sustained fieldwork in studies of social change and globalization. Shows ...

The limits of reform in the enlightenment

Foundations of responsive caregiving

Learn the foundations of responsive caregiving and create and sustain environments that foster young children's growth and development.

Are you listening?

A comprehensive guide to facilitating conversations with and between children to promote early learning.

The student aid game

Student aid in higher education has recently become a hot-button issue. Parents trying to pay for their children's education, college administrators competing for students, and even President Bill Clinton, whose recently proposed tax breaks for college would change sharply the federal government'...

Creating a new public university and reviving democracy

No other book combines a conceptual analysis of academic freedom and integrity, critique of organizational design. A critique of the pseudo-corporate model used by universities now to justify their behavior and structures. A multi-stakeholder action research process to recreate unive...

Educating for insurgency

Education for Rebellion. A manifesto for today's broken schools.

Learning under neoliberalism

The contributors of this volume explore the emerging corporality of the education system worldwide and the impact of this new governance on education practices. Explores changes in University regulations against the backdrop of neoliberal trends toward public-private partnerships. De...

After brown

The United States Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, set into motion a process of desegregation that would eventually transform American public schools. This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of how Brown's most visible effect--contact betwe...

Two americas, two educations

The academic job search handbook

The Academic Job Search Handbook is the comprehensive guide to finding a faculty position in any discipline. Building on the groundbreaking success and unique offerings of earlier volumes, the fifth edition presents insightful new content on aspects of the search at all stages. Beginning with an ...

Higher education in america

A sweeping assessment of the state of higher education today from former Harvard president Derek BokHigher Education in America is a landmark work--a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the current condition of our colleges and universities from former Harvard president Derek Bok, one of ...

Syllabus

How redesigning your syllabus can transform your teaching, your classroom, and the way your students learnGenerations of teachers have built their classes around the course syllabus, a semester-long contract that spells out what each class meeting will focus on (readings, problem sets, case studi...

On equal terms

Since Brown v. Board of Education and the desegregation battles of the 1960s and 1970s, the legal pursuit of educational opportunity in the United States has been framed largely around race. But for nearly thirty years now, a less-noticed but controversial legal campaign has been afoot to equaliz...

Playing with languages

Playing with Languages is the first book-length exploration of everyday social interaction, language shift and revitalization, and children's play in Dominica The book offers much needed insight into Caribbean children's agency and their roles in cultural and linguistic transmission and ...

Higher education in the digital age

How online learning could help control the exploding cost of higher educationTwo of the most visible and important trends in higher education today are its exploding costs and the rapid expansion of online learning. Could the growth in online courses slow the rising cost of college and help solve...

Lesson plan

Why and how American colleges and universities need to change in order to meet the nation's pressing needsAmerican higher education faces some serious problems—but they are not the ones most people think. In this brief and accessible book, two leading experts show that many so-called crises—from ...

Taming the river

Building on their important findings in The Source of the River, the authors now probe even more deeply into minority underachievement at the college level. Taming the River examines the academic and social dynamics of different ethnic groups during the first two years of college. Focusing on rac...

One hundred semesters

In One Hundred Semesters, William Chace mixes incisive analysis with memoir to create an illuminating picture of the evolution of American higher education over the past half century. Chace follows his own journey from undergraduate education at Haverford College to teaching at Stillman, a tradit...

Does god belong in public schools?

Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. In this book, one of America's leading constitutional scholars asks what role religion ought to play in public schools. Kent Greenawalt expl...