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Between Caring & Counting: Teachers Take on Education Reform
One of the key planks of conservative Ontario premier Mike Harris’s 1990s platform was education reform. Amid a sea of official reports, policy documents and ‘expert’ opinions on education, however, the voices of actual classroom teachers were difficult to find. This omission is redressed in Lindsay Kerr’sBetween Caring & Counting. Through a focus group of present-day secondary school teachers in Toronto, Kerr delivers a passionate account of the unassailably negative changes affecting secondary education and teachers’ work.From a critical feminist perspective and using institutional ethnography, Kerr situates the problem in education squarely as a conflict between an ‘accounting logic’ and ‘a… More >>
Between Caring & Counting: Teachers Take on Education Reform
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Caring is at the heart of peace education. : An article from: Childhood Education
This digital document is an article from Childhood Education, published by Association for Childhood Education International on August 6, 2002. The length of the article is 892 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Caring is at the heart of peace education. (Peace Education/Conflict Resolution Network).(Brief Article)
Author: Aline Stomfay-Stitz
Publication: Childhood Education (Refereed)
Date: Aug… More >>
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Breaking Through Barriers to Boys’ Achievement: Developing a Caring Masculinity
It is, sadly, a fact that boys don’t do as well as girls at school. There is no logical reason for this, of course, it is not as if boys are innately more stupid than girls, more of a case that many boys don’t perform as well for a number of reasons. This book aims to change all that by examining research findings and providing strategies to help teachers break through the barriers and help to raise boys’ achievement in this much-needed book…. More >>
Breaking Through Barriers to Boys’ Achievement: Developing a Caring Masculinity
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Caring for Other People’s Children: A Complete Guide to Family Day Care
The demand for child care is immense, and is growing every day. More and more two-salary families are joining the already large number of working single parents. And more and more people want to stay at home but need a steady source of income. Family day care – caring for other people’s children in one’s home – is often the answer to both. “Caring for Other People’s Children” is a practical guide and resource manual for family day care written specifically for family day care providers. The author aims to offer everything family day care providers need to know to plan, start and run a successful day care business in the home. This 1984 book has been reissued and updated to address all of the important business … More >>
Caring for Other People’s Children: A Complete Guide to Family Day Care
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Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, Second Edition, with a New Preface
What is at the basis of moral action? An altruism acquired by the application of rule and principle? Or, as Noddings asserts, caring and the memory of being cared for? With numerous examples to supplement her rich theoretical discussion, Noddings builds a compelling philosophical argument for an ethics based on natural caring, as in the care of a mother for her child. The ethical behavior that grows out of natural caring, and has as its core care-filled receptivity to those involved in any moral situation, leaves behind the rigidity of rule and principle to focus on what is particular and unique in human relations. Noddings’s discussion is wide-ranging, as she considers whether organizations, which operate at a… More >>
Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, Second Edition, with a New Preface
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