In Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, more than four million students attend more than 29,000 Islamic boarding schools. This film offers a rare insight into daily life at one such traditional school. From the students’ sporadic contacts with home, we gather that considerable sacrifices are sometimes made to finance their education. The camera discreetly documents the lives of the young people both inside and outside the classroom. The editing also does little to color our opinion. This open style leaves room for us to get to know the personalities of the young people—and it also matches the approach to teaching at the school. The students aren’t told what to think, but how to think, and are encouraged to show tolerance towards other religions and non-believers. The mixed school also endorses equality between men and women, drawing its justification from the Koran. As the opening titles explain, the type of Islam taught here has been practiced in Indonesia for centuries, but is under threat from rising conservatism.

★跨越德、美、英、意、法、荷、挪、俄、瑞典等世界各国，考察百余种经典儿童文学与教育手册，展现不同文化背景下对情感的认知与学习的异同。 ★焦虑、信任、虔诚、同情、同理、爱、羞耻、痛苦、恐惧、勇敢、思乡、无聊，十三位情感史研究专家，勾勒十二种情绪的百年发展史。 ★从《绿野仙 踪》到《霍比特人》，从《鲁滨逊漂流记》到《爱丽丝漫游奇境》……我们习以为常的情感并非天生，而是通过阅读形塑，并不断改变。 ★“光启·情感史”系列第一部，美国罗文大学历史系教授、北京大学长江讲座教授王晴佳策划作序，著名历史学者蒋竹山推荐 。填补儿童情绪史研究的空白，为儿童情感研究奠定框架。 本书研究百年来经典儿童文学如何引导孩童与青少年认识感觉、学习情绪，由德国马克斯·普朗克人类发展研究所情感研究中心主任、耶鲁大学德国史教授、柏林自由大学荣誉教授乌特·弗雷弗特主编，集合该中心的数位情感史研究专家共同撰写。 1870-1970年是儿童文学发展的黄金时期，也是对儿童情感的讨论最蓬勃发展的年代，儿童被视为需要教养的独立于成人的个体，无数童书与教育手册协助父母引导儿童学习情感、掌控情绪，并由此发展出“健全”的人格。本书即通过考察这一时期来自世界各国的百余种畅销儿童文学与教养手册，还原其阅读情境与读者反应，探索儿童和青少年如何通过阅读来学习感受、认识情感。在阅读儿童文学的过程中，儿童会与书中主人公一起体验成长，通过模仿与自我调整，学习各种情绪，并且将这些情绪转化成知识。作者们也将这些情感置于历史转折与社会变迁中讨论，勾勒出十二种情绪的百年发展史。 在探讨这些书籍传递出哪些情绪知识以成为儿童的情感养分时，本书分析了许多我们耳熟能详的经典作品，如儿童如何在《蝇王》中学到“羞耻”“痛苦”与“同理心”，通过《阿尔卑斯山的少女》懂得“分离焦虑”；而曾被鄙视的“胆怯”，在《绿野仙踪》里有了新的诠释，从托尔金的《魔戒》《霍比特人》到刘易斯的《纳尼亚传奇》，恐惧的概念又变得更加复杂……这些作品鼓励儿童拥抱恐惧、摆脱羞耻，接受思乡病为一种合情合理的感觉，并赋予儿童掌握自我情绪的权利，儿童有了不同的选择与空间，同时也开始需要为自己的情绪负责。

Since its beginnings at the start of the 20th century, educational scholarship has been a marginal field, criticized by public policy makers and relegated to the fringes of academe. An Elusive Science explains why, providing a critical history of the traditions, conflicts, and institutions that have shaped the study of education over the past century.

How do you judge the quality of a school, a district, a teacher, a student? By the test scores, of course. Yet for all the talk, what educational tests can and can't tell you, and how scores can be misunderstood and misused, remains a mystery to most. The complexities of testing are routinely ignored, either because they are unrecognized, or because they may be - well, complicated. Inspired by a popular Harvard course for students without an extensive mathematics background, "Measuring Up" demystifies educational testing - from MCAS to SAT to WAIS, with all the alphabet soup in between. Bringing statistical terms down to earth, Daniel Koretz takes readers through the most fundamental issues that arise in educational testing and shows how they apply to some of the most controversial issues in education today, from high-stakes testing to special education. He walks readers through everyday examples to show what tests do well, what their limits are, how easily tests and scores can be oversold or misunderstood, and how they can be used sensibly to help discover how much kids have learned.

In this timely volume, based on a special issue of "Comparative Education Review", leading comparative education scholars explore the world of education in Islam from the medieval era to today, illuminating the continuing struggle among Islamic scholars and educators over whether to reform or resist as a way of preserving identity. "Islam and Education" offers a rare overview of the great diversity in forms of Islamic education, dispelling misinterpretations and documenting the ever-evolving relationship of Islamic education to the West. It will be necessary reading for all humanists and social scientists wishing to understand the relationship between schools and societies, the spiritual dimensions of learning, and the social configuration of educational institutions.

本書是弗雷勒最為著名的一本書，已被翻譯成好幾十國語言，雖然已出版超過三十年，還一直在世界上被廣泛閱讀，單單在美國已銷售超過７５萬冊。這是他在台灣第一本被翻譯出來的書，同時，本書也是台灣教育社會學會與巨流圖書公司合作出版的「教育社會學叢書」系列的第一本。 在本書中，弗雷勒轉換了教育學的關注焦點，教育的重心從壓迫者轉至受壓迫者身上，而且這種教育學不只是「為了」受壓迫者的教育學，它更是「和」受壓迫者一同進行的教育學。他還比較了囤積式教育與提問式教育之間的不同。在討論提問式教育的同時，他也提到了在這樣的教學中，教師與學生的角色發生了轉變，教師不僅是教師，在教學的過程中，他同時也成了學生；學生不僅是學生，在教學的過程中，他同時也成了老師。 弗雷勒將教育重心的轉移賦予攻治與社會的意涵，這使得他的教育目標也發生了轉變。在弗雷勒的看法中，民眾的識讀能力與批判意識的形成有著密切的關係，教學行動因而是一種政治性的文化行動。弗雷勒在《受壓迫者教育學》中探討的當然遠遠超過前面所提及的，而某些更深入的分析與敘述還有待讀者去發掘。 目錄 第一章　受壓迫者教育學辨正；壓迫者與受壓迫者間的矛盾，以及這種矛盾是如何克服的；壓迫與壓迫者；壓迫與受壓迫者；解放：不是一種恩賜，也不是自我的成就，而是一種共同相互的過程 第二章　作為壓迫工具的教育「囤積」概念──它的預設──一個批判；作為解放工具的教育「提問」概念──它的預設；「囤積」概念與師生矛盾；「提問」概念與師生矛盾的超越；教育：一個相互的過程，是以世界為其媒介；人們即未完成的存在，他們覺察到本身的不完美，而試圖變得更為完整與人性化。 第三章　對話學──教育的本質即自由的實踐；對話學與對話；對話與計畫內容的尋索；人與世界的關係，「衍生課題」，與教育計畫的內容即自由之實踐；「衍生課題」的探索及其方法；藉由「衍生課題」達到批判意識的甦醒；探究的不同階段。 第四章　反對話學與對話學構成了文化行動理論中的對立理論：前者即壓迫的工具，後者即解放的工具；反對話行動理論及其特徵：征服、分而治之、操控與文化侵略；對話行動理論及其特徵：合作、聯合、組織與文化統合

In this, the era of the 'knowledge society', more is expected of education than ever before, yet disappointment in education seems pervasive. New Learning analyses the state of education today and presents an exciting vision of what schools could be like. It addresses the fundamental questions: what kinds of workers, citizens and individuals will our future need, and how can schools refashion themselves and become more relevant? The focus is on learners and their learning - the extraordinary diversity of their backgrounds and interests, and the dynamics of educational environments which can engage all to fully maximise the effectiveness of learning. This book by internationally renowned experts is an imaginative, future-oriented exploration of contemporary education. The supplementary web site NewLearningOnline.com includes extracts from books and interviews, case studies, keyword definitions and additional learning material.

当年法国是如何利用其共和国世俗学校的模式对非洲进行殖民的？难道非洲人民的独立意愿不正是一种对法国教育模式的一种回应吗？当前非洲的教育危机能够以该殖民教育模式之误来解释吗？这些都是本书试图回答的问题。 本书经过作者耐心细致的调研和深入的思考，对法国在非洲殖民战略的文化影响提出了一种全新的、扎实的且信息量巨大的解读。本书不仅揭示了法国在非洲的文化战略的存在，而且还在恰当内容的基础上，对这一战略加以重新定位、重新甄别，并对其影响进行评估。本书的研究发现，法国在非洲的这种连贯而有效的战略立足于一套经过精心挑选、充分适应时势的固定原则框架之上，使其殖民政策得以把既细致、深入和持久的思维和行为模式移植到非洲人那里去。对此，本书作者提出了一个等式：殖民=灌输。 本书内容翔实地引出了殖民战略认识论上的方法和理论。作者从社会和政治的角度，试图厘清一些提议和框架，旨在阐明一种新的教育战略，为当前非洲教育的危机提供解决之道。

This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts for their differential outcomes, and draws important conclusions for the study of culture, organizations, and social movements. Amy Binder gives a brief history of both movements and then describes how their challenges played out in seven school districts. Despite their very different constituencies - inner-city African American cultural essentialists and predominately white suburban Christian conservatives - Afrocentrists and creationists had much in common. Both made similar arguments about oppression and their children's well-being, both faced skepticism from educators about their factual claims, and both mounted their challenges through bureaucratic channels. In each case, challenged school systems were ultimately able to minimize or reject challengers' demands, but the process varied by case and type of challenge. Binder finds that Afrocentrists were more successful in advancing their cause than were creationists because they appeared to offer a solution to the real problem of urban school failure, met with more administrative sympathy toward their complaints of historic exclusion, sought to alter lower-prestige curricula (history, not science), and faced opponents who lacked a legal remedy comparable to the rule of church-state separation invoked by creationism's opponents. Binder's analysis yields several lessons for social movements research, suggesting that researchers need to pay greater attention to how movements seek to influence bureaucratic decision making, often from within. It also demonstrates the benefits of examining discursive, structural, and institutional factors in concert.

书的主题是智力教育。我从多个角度阐述了贯穿各章的一个核心观念，这个观念可以简要地表述为：学生是充满活力的，教育的目的在于促进和引导学生的自我发展。而这必然意味着，教师们也应该永葆活跃的思维。由此，全书对死板的知识或者说僵化的思想进行了抨击。除第9章之外，其余各章都是怀特海在各种教育机构和科学团体的会议上做过的演讲。它们来源于实践经验，反思了教育现状，并对所涉及的那些话题的意义提出了一些批判性的见解。

Learning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team. Teenage debaters also participate in a distinct cultural world--complete with its own jargon and status system--in which they must negotiate complicated relationships with teammates, competitors, coaches, and parents as well as classmates outside the debating circuit. In Gifted Tongues, Gary Alan Fine offers a rich description of this world as a testing ground for both intellectual and emotional development, while seeking to understand adolescents as social actors. Considering the benefits and drawbacks of the debating experience, he also recommends ways of reshaping programs so that more high schools can use them to boost academic performance and foster specific skills in citizenship. Fine analyzes the training of debaters in rapid-fire speech, rules of logical argumentation, and the strategic use of evidence, and how this training instills the core values of such American institutions as law and politics. Debates, however, sometimes veer quickly from fine displays of logic to acts of immaturity--a reflection of the tensions experienced by young people learning to think as adults. Fine contributes to our understanding of teenage years by encouraging us not to view them as a distinct stage of development but rather a time in which young people draw from a toolkit of both childlike and adult behaviors. A well-designed debate program, he concludes, nurtures the intellect while providing a setting in which teens learn to make better behavioral choices, ones that will shape relationships in their personal, professional, and civic lives.

At the genesis of the Republic of China in 1912, many political leaders, educators, and social reformers argued that republican education should transform China's people into dynamic modern citizens--social and political agents whose public actions would rescue the national community. Over subsequent decades, however, they came to argue fiercely over the contents of citizenship and how it should be taught. Moreover, many of their carefully crafted policies and programs came to be transformed by textbook authors, teachers, administrators, and students. Furthermore, the idea of citizenship, once introduced, raised many troubling questions. Who belonged to the national community in China, and how was the nation constituted? What were the best modes of political action? How should modern people take responsibility for "public matters"? What morality was proper for the modern public? This book reconstructs civic education and citizenship training in secondary schools in the lower Yangzi region during the Republican era. It also analyzes how students used the tools of civic education introduced in their schools to make themselves into young citizens and explores the complex social and political effects of educated youths' civic action.

This book is for anyone who has ever wondered how a child develops language, thought, and knowledge. Before this classic appeared, little was known of the way children think. In 1923, however, Jean Piaget, the most important developmental psychologist of the twentieth century, took the psychological world by storm withThe Language and Thought of the Child. Applying for the first time the insights of social psychology and psychoanalysis to the observation of children, he uncovered the ways in which a child actively constructs his or her understanding of the world through language. The book has since been a source of inspiration and guidance to generations of parents and teachers. While its conclusions remain contentious to this very day, few can deny the huge debt we owe to this pioneering work in our continuing attempts to understand the minds of the child. Review 'His theory of child development has influenced the way millions of schoolchildren have been taught.' - Times Literary Supplement 'Jean Piaget breaks startling new ground by showing us how a child's grasp of concepts develops as inevitably as his bones.' - The Observer

怀特海，英国数学家、哲学家，过程哲学创始人。怀特海的过程哲学可以说是起因于牛顿物理学的崩解。怀特海的哲学对思想史具有独特的解读，对科学和数学在西方文明兴盛过程中的角色有重要的研究。怀特海的哲学与柏格森的直觉主义有重要的关联。怀特海是独树一帜的思想大师。随着时间的推移，人们越来越发现怀特海的学术价值。学术界认为，怀特海属于20世纪最杰出的哲学家之一。怀特海的思想精微深邃，他的影响在他生前已超出了哲学领域而广泛波及到生态学、管理学、宗教学等多门学科，包括爱因斯坦在内的不少大科学家都对他的思想都很重视。教育思想是怀特海的过程思想的重要组成部分。怀特海对学校中教育专门化的趋势进行了批评。他认为，现代知识专门化的结果使得某些专家的思想局限在一个角落里，这种专家思想上的偏于一隅对社会发展是不利的，它对个人发展也是有害的。怀特海认为，应当建立普通教育与专业教育它们之间的有机联系。怀特海对儿童心理发展的研究也独树一帜。近年来，怀特海在中国哲学界学术界的影响越来越大。截止到2010年，包括北京师范大学在内的20多所高等学校建立了专门的过程思想研究机构，对怀特海的思想展开认真的学术研究，每年都有专门的硕士和博士学位论文问世。本书《教育的目的》是怀特海的代表作之一。

Set in New York City, NURSERY UNIVERSITY is a feature documentary that reveals the oddly competitive, yet often humorous, world of nursery school admissions. The film tells the story of five families – each with different backgrounds and economic circumstances – attempting to place their toddlers in prestigious Manhattan preschools that have limited spaces and high price tags. NURSERY UNIVERSITY follows the families’ journeys while also going behind the scenes with the experts that advise them and the school directors who must determine which “applicants” to allow through their doors. Enjoy the insanity in this sweeter look at the social issues, and the little darlings at the center of all the fuss.

The first generation of children born under China’s one-child family policy is now reaching adulthood. What are these children like? What are their values, goals, and interests? What kinds of relationships do they have with their families? This is the first in-depth study to analyze what it is like to grow up as the state-appointed vanguard of modernization. Based on surveys and ethnographic research in China, where the author lived with teenage only children and observed their homes and classrooms for 27 months between 1997 and 2002, the book explores the social, economic, and psychological consequences of the government’s decision to accelerate the fertility transition. Only Hope shows how the one-child policy has largely succeeded in its goals, but with unintended consequences. Only children are expected to be the primary providers of support and care for their retired parents, grandparents, and parents-in-law, and only a very lucrative position will allow them to provide for so many dependents. Many only children aspire to elite status even though few can attain it, and such aspirations lead to increased stress and competition, as well as intense parental involvement.

In Seoul, hundreds of young boys compete to be the best at one single video game: Star-craft. As top players earn hundreds of thousands of euros, being a professional gamer isn't only a wise career move, it is also the path to respect and credibility in the highly competitive society of South Korea. The stars of the Star-craft league are national celebrities, participating on all levels of popular culture.But what happens when play becomes work? For some it will be a struggle to stay on top of their game, for others it might be the turning point of their lives

在2002年一篇曾引发数学界巨大反响的文章《一个数学家的叹息》中，保罗·洛克哈特猛烈抨击了美国中小学数学教育的现状：学生只是被要求记住公式，并在练习题中反复套用，而这一创造性过程应有的兴奋、喜悦乃至痛苦和挫败却不见了。 在洛克哈特看来，数学是一门艺术，而老师教授数学的方法应该是，向学生诚实地传递自己对于这门学科的热爱，激发和激励他们与生俱来的好奇心，并帮助和引导他们实际投身到这段迷人的旅途中去。 本书正是洛克哈特这一思想的体现。他对数学的热爱在字里行间显露无遗，同时他也不讳言旅途的艰难。本书分为两个部分，分别介绍了对形状和运动的度量。他以平实的语言将几何学和微积分的复杂概念以及两者之间的精妙关联解释得清晰易懂，生动展示了数学家都在做什么，以及他们为什么要这么做。