LibGuides: ENGL 120: Pruitt-Westover: Formal & Informal Education

Circulating Books on Formal Education

In Defense of a Liberal Education by Fareed Zakaria
Call Number: 370.112 Zakaria (Napa Main)
ISBN: 9780393247688
Publication Date: 2015-03-30
The Voice of Liberal Learning by Michael Joseph Oakeshott; Timothy Fuller (Foreword by)
Call Number: 378.001 Oak
ISBN: 9780865973244
Publication Date: 2001-10-01
Reclaiming Education: Renewing Schools and Universities in Contemporary Western Culture by Catherine a. Runcie/David Brooks
Call Number: On Order
ISBN: 0994168268
Publication Date: 12.24.18
College by Margit Misangyi Watts
Call Number: 378.198 WATTS
ISBN: 9780131196322
Publication Date: 2006-04-25

Informal Education, Childhood and Youth by Sarah Mills (Editor); Peter Kraftl (Editor)
Call Number: On Order
ISBN: 9781137027726
Publication Date: 2014-03-27
This collection of original chapters brings together cutting-edge research on informal education - that is, learning practices that emphasize dialogue and learning through everyday life. For the first time, it highlights the way in which geography matters to informal education practices. Through a range of examples from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and from a range of geographical contexts, the authors explore the relationship between history, geography and practice in the field of informal education
A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century by Oliver DeMille
Call Number: On Order
ISBN: 9781615399918
Publication Date: 2009

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