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Title: What Are Schools For?: Holistic Education in American Culture by Ron Miller ISBN: 0-9627232-0-7 Publisher: Holistic Education Pr Pub. Date: January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: John R. Cathey, J.D., Ph.D.
Comment: Ron Miller,the leading voice in American holistic education, explains the emergence of holistic education within the context of the historical development of American public education. Frequently used as a classroom text for education students, What Are Schools For? is a consise treatment of the values and issues that impact public education policy in America. This is a must read for parents, educators, and politicians who are concerned with current public policy that sacrafices the complex needs of children in favor of corporate demands for the consumer economy
Rating: 5
Summary: Holistic education in context of American public education
Comment: Ron Miller, the leading thinker in the field of holsitic education, lays out the development of public edcucation in America and explains the emergence of holistic education within the cultural context. Frequently used as a text in college of education courses, What Are Schools For has been updated to address the current crisis in American education. This thoughtful book is a must for educators who are struggling to meet the needs of our children in a system that tends to reduce education to a servicing agent for economic interests
Rating: 4
Summary: On Education...
Comment: This is an excellent reference guide for all those on their way to becoming teachers-- Miller not only gives a sampling of the various cultural impacts on American education throughout history and the pioneers who pushed for them, he also provides students with valid reasons for holistic education.
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Title: Nurturing Our Wholeness: Perspectives on Spirituality in Education by John P. Miller, Yoshiharu Nakagawa ISBN: 1885580126 Publisher: Foundation for Educational Renewal Pub. Date: 15 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education by David B. Tyack ISBN: 0674637828 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1974 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, Myra Bergman Ramos, Donaldo P. Macedo ISBN: 0826412769 Publisher: Continuum Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Introduction to Classroom Observation 2nd edn by E. C. Wragg, Ted Wragg ISBN: 0415194407 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Three Seductive Ideas by Jerome Kagan ISBN: 0674001974 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 07 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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