Virtual Charter Schools and Home Schooling
Carol Klein
ISBN13: 9781934043219
Date: 22-Nov-06
A much-awaited book--one of the first comprehensive investigations of the relationship between virtual charter schools and home schooling. Read More..
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Who is the Good High School Student?
Greg Thompson
ISBN13: 9781604977950
Date: 31-Dec-11
The idea that schools exist to produce students who become good citizens is one of the basic tenets of modernist educational philosophies that dominate the contemporary education world. The school has become a political site where policy, curriculum orientations, expectations and philosophies of education contest for the ‘right’ way to school and be schooled. By pushing the ontological understandings of the self beyond the modernist philosophies that currently dominate schools and schooling, this study problematises the tendency to see students as fixed, measurable identities (beings) and offers valuable insights on high school students in the new millennia. Read More..