best practices for educating the whole child today /
First Statement of Responsibility
Daniel W. Stuckart and Jeffrey Glanz ; foreword by Maurice R. Berube
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Lanham :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Rowman & Littlefield Education,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2010
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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viii, 265 p. ;
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24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references
CONTENTS NOTE
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Fundamental issues in educating the whole child. Creating a curriculum for teaching the whole child -- Creating a curriculum for teaching the whole child -- Changing demographics: promoting the new democracy, education, and the whole child -- Subverting the whole child through narrowing of the curriculum and teaching to the test -- Critiquing scientific dogmatism in education with implications for current supervisory and administrative practice within a standards-based environment -- Implementing inquiry, holistic learning through technology -- Advocating for the disenfranchised exceptional child in an era of high-stakes education -- Realizing our ethical responsibilities as educators -- Voices from the field. The relevance of Dewey's work -- School reform in New York City: the Impact of NCLB -- Combating poverty in light of the attack on Deweyan democracy -- The Dewey schools. Democracy and education for all children,