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Education

This guide will help you locate education resources.

Print & Electronic

Olin Library has a strong collection of education books available in print or in electronic version. 

E-books can be read online for your convenience.  You can highlight words and take notes on the screen.  To save your work, be sure to create an account.

Below is a selection of print and e-books you may find useful.  Use the "Find Books" search box to find more.

Selection of Education Books

Affective teacher education : exploring connections among knowledge, skills, and dispositions

This book helps teachers to visualize teaching and learning holistically, linking the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that students need to know, do, and feel, to achieve in school and become lifelong learners.

Learning not schooling : reimagining the purpose of education

Arguing that there is a disconnect between learning and schooling in US education, Lesch proposes an approach that is more conducive to the natural tendencies of the learner. He provides a model that addresses what healthy, effective learning is (not necessarily connected to the ways of schooling today), and discusses how schools can address the inequalities between the rich and the poor, and connect students to larger society.There is no index. Lesch, a classroom teacher, founded and directed an alternative school in Illinois for children ages six to fourteen.

In Search of Understanding

The activities that transpire within the classroom either help or hinder students' learning. Any meaningful discussion of educational renewal, therefore, must focus explicitly and directly on the classroom, and on the teaching and learning that occur within it. This book presents a case for the development of classrooms in which students are encouraged to construct deep understandings of important concepts. Jacqueline Grennon Brooks and Martin Brooks present a new set of images for educational settings, images that emerge from student engagement, interaction, reflection, and construction.

Teachers' and Students' Cognitive Styles in Early Childhood Education

Some educators feel that children's cognitive styles should be taken into account when learning activities are planned for them. The term cognitive styles refers to one's personal style, and describes an individual's mode of understanding, thinking, remembering, judging, and solving problems; in short, how he or she responds to and makes sense of the world.  This book presents historical perspectives, suggests practical classroom applications, and provides implications for future research.

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