Making Schools Different : Alternative Approaches to Educating Young People/ Edited by Kitty Te Riele - 1st ed. - London: Sage Publications, 2009 - xiii, 161 p.: 23 cm. ill.;

includes References and Index


1. Educational innovation for young people
2. Alternative schooling in the USA
3. The need for dialogue invocational education
4. New adulthood, youth and identity
5. Learning identities for living
6. Doing identity differently in practice
7. Embedding the ethic of care in school policies and practices
8. Pedagogy of hope
9. Engaging disaffected young people
10. Doing pedagogy differently in practice
11. Learning spaces in educational partnerships
12. E-learning technologies and remote students
13. Part-time schooling.
14. Doing place and time differently in practice
15.Learning from Indigenous education

What can we do with students who don't succeed in the typical classroom, and what are the alternatives to full-time schooling?With contributions from leading academics from Canada, America, the UK, The Netherlands and Australia, this internationally-minded book helps the reader to reflect on the ways young people are taught, and presents possible alternative approaches. Global social and economic changes and technological developments are driving the need for change within education, so that we can better cater for a diversity of young people. This book offers a forward-looking overview of whe


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Alternative education
Education --Experimental Methods
Educational change

371.04 / RIM