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This is a book of up-to-date strategies for helping children-from their earliest years into adulthood-and is all about helping kids do more than just survive; these are strategies to help kids flourish. These solution-focused and easy-to-read essays are by 27 of the world's top experts in positive education. Learn to help children develop a lifelong love of learning with this practical and positive guide. Contributors include Michael Carr-Gregg, Maggie...
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"La educación desde el psicoanálisis" es un homenaje a Marcos Gheiler Mucinik, un auténtico pionero que realizó, en el Perú y en otros países de América Latina, una de las más arduas labores académicas y sociales: la aplicación del psicoanálisis a la educación. Producto de esta labor son las decenas de conferencias, ponencias y publicaciones, en diversos eventos nacionales e internacionales, que realizó durante sus más de cuarenta años...
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A rich collection of essays about the inner, shared experiences of participants engaged in second-person approaches to contemplative practice.
Catalyzing the Field presents a diverse series of applied case studies about the second-person dimension of contemplative learning in higher education. As a companion volume to the editors' previous book, The Intersubjective Turn, the contributors to this book explore various pedagogical scenarios in which...
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En este segundo tomo del libro Formar-se en psicología: Conversaciones con maestros de la disciplina, de nuevo hemos invitado a renombra¬dos autores de la psicología que han hecho contribuciones relevantes en asuntos epistemológicos, teóricos, metodológicos y de formación de varias generaciones de psicólogos, y hemos conservado el espíritu y el aliento con que elaboramos el volumen inicial: que personas, tanto del campo de la psicología...
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La psicología de la educación es una subdisciplina psicológica de gran tradición en la Facultad de Psicología de la UAEM y se han desarrollado investigaciones en dicha área desde 1980, que ha visto en últimos años un gran aumento en la producción científica y práctica, así como también en la diversificación de los temas estudiados. Por otro lado, la neuropsicología es un campo joven, sin embargo en la UAEM se adoptó y desarrolló con...
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Everyone ought to be profoundly concerned with the "development" of the leaner and consequently the development of society. The ultimate standard (value) for such development is to attain a more adequate level of value and moral awareness, sensitivity, reasoning, and action.
The why, what, and how of the value education "emphasis" are being seriously confronted in a more dedicate and systematic manner. This is perhaps symptomatic of something much...
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La Pedagogía Social es una disciplina que investiga y orienta la práctica socioeducativa teniendo como propósito la mejora sociocomunitaria, desde una dimensión cultural, horizontal y ética. La región iberoamericana presenta relaciones, dificultades, conflictos y posibilidades para la actuación en ámbitos como la infancia, la adolescencia y la juventud; el ámbito penitenciario; la multiculturalidad e interculturalidad, la construcción de...
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In this anthology, teachers and scholars examine the ways in which teaching is a performance that incorporates acts of impersonation.
Drawn from a conference on classroom dynamics, this anthology explores both the personal and performative aspects of teacher-student relationships. After David Crane's prefatory "postscript," George Otte recommends that students pretend, writing from various perspectives, Indira Karamcheti suggests putting on race...
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What does it take to be successful as an adult in the 21st century? Exactly what does success mean? Financial wealth? Career achievement? Inner peace? Developing one's potential to the fullest? How should social institutions such as the family, the school, religious organizations, or the community guide the development of the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary for success? These are important questions that are the focus of discussions not...
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The Meaning Makers is about children's language and literacy development at home and at school. Based on the Bristol Study, "Language at Home and at School," which the author directed, it follows the development of a representative sample of children from their first words to the end of their primary schooling. It contains many examples of their experience of language in use, both spoken and written, recorded in naturally occurring settings in their...
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In an age of catastrophes-unchecked climate change, extreme poverty, forced migrations, war, and terror, all compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic-how can schooling be reengineered and education reimagined? This book calls for a new global approach to education that responds to these overlapping crises in order to enrich and enhance the lives of children everywhere.
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco convene scholars and practitioners...
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