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Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position in educational philosophy), this book demonstrates how Dewey reformulated his ideas as a result of his... (more)

Scaffolding Children's Learning: Vygotsky and Early Childhood Education (Naeyc Research Into Practice Series, V. 7)Laura E. Berk, Adam Winsler

Scaffolding Children's Learning: Vygotsky and Early Childhood Education (Naeyc Research Into Practice Series, V. 7)

by Laura E. Berk

Theories of Childhood: An Introduction to Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget & Vygotsky

Theories of Childhood: An Introduction to Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget & Vygotsky

by Carol Garhart Mooney

Find solutions and guidance in your classroom today by looking at the theoretical foundations of early childhood care. An intensive look at the ideas of five groundbreaking educational theorists, Theories of Childhood examines the work of John Dewey, Maria Montessori, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Lev Vygotsky in relation to early childhood. Each theorist’s ideas are presented to help teachers and students look... (more)

Art, Mind, and Education: Research from Project Zero

Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

Innovative ideas in educational psychology, learning, and instruction, originally formulated by Russian psychologist and educator Lev Vygotsky, are currently enjoying unprecedented popularity in the U.S., Latin America, Europe, and Russia. An international team of scholarly contributors provides comprehensive coverage of all the main concepts of Vygotsky's sociocultural theory. They emphasize its importance for... (more)

The School and Society and The Child and the Curriculum (Centennial Publications of The University of Chicago Press)

The School and Society and The Child and the Curriculum (Centennial Publications of The University of Chicago Press)

by John Dewey

These two short, influential books, which grew out of Dewey’s hands-on experience in administering the laboratory school at the University of Chicago, represent the earliest authoritative statement of his revolutionary emphasis on education as an experimental, child-centered process. In The School and Society, he declares that we must “make each one of our schools an embryonic community life, active with types of... (more)

Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series

Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series

by John Berger

"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled."John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" is... (more)

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

by Paulo Freire

This text argues that the ignorance and lethargy of the poor are the direct result of the whole economic, social and political domination. The book suggests that in some countries the oppressors use the system to maintain a 'culture of silence'. Through the right kind of education, the book suggests, avoiding authoritarian teacher-pupil models and based on the actual experiences of students and on continual shared... (more)

From Plato To Piaget

by William Cooney

The authors of this book consult fifteen thinkers, from various fields, who have a profound understanding of the important role that education plays in our world. Each chapter opens with an Introduction and concludes with a discussion and questions. Contents: Introduction; "Plato", Plato's Cave: On Breaking the Chains of Ignorance; "Confucius", Confucius, The Master Teacher; "John Locke", Locke On Developing Good... (more)

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Experience And Education

by John Dewey

Scaffolding Children's Learning: Vygotsky and Early Childhood Education (Naeyc Research Into Practice Series, V. 7)

by Laura E. Berk

Theories of Childhood: An Introduction to Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget & Vygotsky

by Carol Garhart Mooney

Art, Mind, and Education: Research from Project Zero

Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

The School and Society and The Child and the Curriculum (Centennial Publications of The University of Chicago Press)

by John Dewey

Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series

by John Berger

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

by Paulo Freire

From Plato To Piaget

by William Cooney