Non Formal Education category: 341 books
Virtual Learning Environments
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
As the world rapidly moves online, sectors from management, industry, government, and education have broadly begun to virtualize the way people interact and learn. Virtual Learning Environments: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications is a three-volume compendium of the latest research, case...
Home Grown
Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
In this most personal of his books to date, Ben Hewitt shows us how small, mindful decisions about day-to-day life can lead to greater awareness of the world in our backyards and beyond. In telling the story of his sons’ unconventional education in the fields and forests surrounding his family’s...
Real-Life Homeschooling
The Stories of 21 Families Who Teach Their Children at Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2002
The book that shows homeschooling in action!
What does it really mean when parents say they homeschool their child or children? For Rhonda Barfield -- a homeschooler for the past 10 years -- the definition is as diverse as the 21 families she studies in this eye-opening book.
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The Essential Rudolf Steiner
Theosophy: An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of the World and the Destination of Man; An Esoteric Cosmology; Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path; An Introduction to Waldorf Education; How to Know Higher Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Collected here in this omnibus edition are five of Rudolf Steiner's most important works: 'Theosophy: An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of the World and the Destination of Man,' 'An Esoteric Cosmology,' 'Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path,' 'An Introduction to Waldorf Education,'...
You Wanna Race?
An Entry-Level Guide to Motorsports
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Auto racing is one of the greatest adrenaline-filled sports in the world. As a result, many adventure seekers are drawn to the excitement that surrounds motorsports. Still, just one percent of the population will ever have the opportunity, dedication, and courage to climb into the cockpit of a race...
Advancing Equity and Diversity in Student Affairs
A Festschrift in Honor of Melvin C. Terrell
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This Festschrift has a dual purpose: (a) highlight how student affairs has grown as a field of practice in response to the growth of student diversity on college campuses, and (b) honor the remarkable career of Melvin C. Terrell. As one of the unique contributions to higher education attributed to the...
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How to offer and give more to children, to ill and elder people,than it is expected from you and so to earn deservedly more
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
This book contains a new form of education for children and elderly people
Summer Learning
Research, Policies, and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2004
This book brings together up-to-date, research-based evidence concerning summer learning and provides descriptions and analyses of a range of summer school programs. The chapters present theory and data that explain both the phenomenon of summer learning loss and the potential for effective summer...
by Elizabeth P. Peabody
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
AMONG those who in the last twenty years have helped to spread a knowledge of the educational principles of Froebel beyond the limits of his native country, Miss Elizabeth Peabody's name deserves to be specially remembered.
The Victoria Mxenge Housing Project
Women Building Communities Through Social Activism and Informal Learning
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
In 1994, at the beginning of South Africa’s democratic change, the Victoria Mxenge Housing Project was founded by a group of 12 women who lived in shacks on the barren outskirts of Cape Town. These women had come from rural areas and were poor, vulnerable, and semi-literate. Yet they learned how...
Technology, Literacy, Learning
A Multimodal Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
With the recent explosion of technology into the world of education across the globe, this book sets out a framework for rethinking the three key areas of schooling that are most affected by technology's impact on education today: knowledge as curriculum; learning and pedagogy and literacy across...
Macro-Level Learning through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
Strategies and Predictions for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
To some in academia, Massive Open Online Courses are a paradigm shift in online education, while others perceive them as a threat to traditional styles of pedagogy. In this regard, the time-honored model of the university lecture is seen as being a potential casualty of the rise of MOOCs. Macro-Level...
Essential Readings in Problem-Based Learning
Exploring and Extending the Legacy of Howard S. Barrows
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Like most good educational interventions, problem-based learning (PBL) did not grow out of theory, but out of a practical problem. Medical students were bored, dropping out, and unable to apply what they had learned in lectures to their practical experiences a couple of years later. Neurologist Howard...
by Camilla Chafer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Becoming a parent can put a whole new perspective on life, but having a child doesn’t have to mean giving up on your education or your dreams of furthering your career. For some parents it can even spur them on to acheive those ambitions in order to provide a better life for their children in the...