Maria Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. Her educational method is in use today in public and private schools throughout the world. In 1947 she returned to India and gave courses in Adyar and Ahmedabad. These courses led to the book The Absorbent Mind, in which Montessori described the development of the child from birth onwards and...

Though he did not coin the phrase "Progressive Education", American philosopher and psychologist, John Dewey, has historically been associated with this modern educational method. In these two works, "The School and Society" and "The Child and Curriculum", Dewey lays out his philosophies of pragmatism, educational reform, and his advocacy of democracy. In a time when education focused primarily on rote memorization and passive acquisition of knowledge,...

Cardinal John Henry Newman was a major figure in the Oxford Movement, a response by the members of the Church of England to a perceived attack by the reforming Whig administration who had already legislated a restructuring of the Church of Ireland. Members of the Oxford Movement feared the secular appropriation of ecclesiastical property and moved to assert their religious authority by returning the church to its Catholic origins. In 1854 John Henry...

First published in 1652, Thomas Brooks' "Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices" offers insights into the snares and schemes of the devil which are timely and relevant for today. Though centuries have passed since its writing, this timeless classic remains an amazing work of teaching on the thousands of ways Satan seeks to destroy every Christian and the thousands of ways God has provided every Christian to defeat Satan's nefarious schemes. In...

Empower your alienated students to cultivate a deep sense of belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity. This fully updated edition of Reclaiming Youth at Risk by Larry K. Brendtro, Martin Brokenleg, and Steve Van Bockern merges Native American knowledge and Western science to create a unique alternative for reaching disconnected or troubled youth. Rely on the book's new neuroscience research, insights, and examples to help you establish positive...

The Basic Premise We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, that in order to make an indication one must first make a distinction. We take therefore of distinction for the form. G. Spencer-Brown, 1970, Laws of Form, 1. New Thinking Has Emerged The least and the most favored as positions, have allowed me to observe bias as an operational form within the United States and most other polities of culture. However, my design...

Comment peut-on faire une lecture critique de la société à travers l'étude du loisir moderne ? Telle est l'une des questions fondamentales de cet ouvrage. Non pas que des phénomènes « nouveaux » apparaissent soudainement, mais bien parce qu'une nouvelle lecture de la société est rendue possible si l'on est attentif aux multiples facettes révélées par le loisir : mythes et rituels, évolution des valeurs et des comportements, usages...

In his final year of college at Middle State University, senior Chris Warren finds that the courses he needs to graduate are not offered and he will have to return to school for an extra year.As he and Dr. Brumley, a sympathetic instructor, try to remedy the situation, they confront the indifference and increasing hostility of the university administration, whose members, as well as most of Brumley's colleagues at Middle State, are committed largely...

Este libro busca describir y explicar la transformación social que enfrenta una comunidad rural campesina que habita en el sector El Roble (vereda Barro Blanco), del municipio de Timbío en el departamento del Cauca en Colombia. En estas sociedades rurales vienen sucediendo cambios en los estilos de vida campesina, en la relación con la tierra que traspasan las dimensiones del diario vivir: cambios generacionales; innovación productiva; desaparición...

Este curso ilustrado de filosofía y teoría del derecho reconstruye la secuencia del concepto de derecho de los paradigmas iusfilosóficos y iusteóricos a lo largo de la modernidad. Constituyó el inicio del grupo de investigación REPENSARelDERECHO (categoría A en MinCiencias) de la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, dirigido por el profesor Óscar Mejía y codirigido por la profesora Diana Hincapié,...