"Alphabets and names make games and everybody has a name and all the same they have in a way to have a birthday" muses Gertrude Stein in "To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays". Written in 1940 and intended as a follow-up to her children's book "T...

Published twenty years ago, the original "Preschool in Three Cultures" was a landmark in the study of education: a profoundly enlightening exploration of the different ways preschoolers are taught in China, Japan, and the United States. Here, lead au...

This title offers an insightful exploration of the mission, history, theory, practice and future of museum education. At the heart of all good art museum teaching is an effort to bring people and artworks together in meaningful ways. But what constit...

Teacher and author Vivian Paley is highly regarded by parents, educators, and other professionals for her original insights into such seemingly everyday issues as play, story, gender, and how young children think. In "The Classrooms All Young Childre...

Based on years of observation at a large state university, "Wannabe U" tracks the dispiriting consequences of trading in traditional educational values for loyalty to the market. Aping their boardroom idols, the new corporate administrators at such u...

From their grade school classrooms forward, students of science are encouraged to memorize and adhere to the "scientific method" – a model of inquiry consisting of five to seven neatly laid-out steps, often in the form of a flowchart. But walk into t...

Parents in China greatly value higher education for their children, but the intensity and effects of their desire to achieve this goal have largely gone unexamined – until now".Governing Educational Desire" explores the cultural, political, and econo...

For generations, schools have aimed to introduce students to a broad range of topics through curriculum that ensure that they will at least have some acquaintance with most areas of human knowledge by the time they graduate. Yet such broad knowledge...

Over the past three decades, more than a quarter of a million children have become citizens of the United States through international adoption. Kindergarten teacher Jane Katch recently found herself with three such children in her class: Katya, born...

Education has always been an important pursuit in Islam. The Prophet Muhammad enjoined his followers to "seek knowledge, even unto China". Within the religion, educational theory and practice were founded on the work of itinerant teachers who taught...