Education through reading and declamation

Reading Democracy and Education

What is John Dewey’s Democracy and Education? In a literal sense, it is a study of education and its relation to the individual and society. Moreover, Dewey tells us, it is a philosophical rather than historical, sociological, or political inquiry. His original title for the work was An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education. That was the heading he had in view when he signed a contract to...

Reading, Literacy, and Education

In his article "Reading, Literacy, and Education" Mikko Lehtonen outlines a contextual approach to literacy. He asks how the changing relations of culture and economy, transformation of nation states and national cultures and changing notions concerning affect and cognition, transform notions of literacy and reading. Relying on the results of a recent Finnish research project on new reading com...

Books, Reading, and Undergraduate Education

A~STRACT FORECASTS OF THE DEMISE OF THE printed book or codex and the associated changes in the academic library foster valid questions about the continuing place of reading and print media in American colleges. This article cites the increasing interest paid to information technologies by higher education, particularly college libraries, and the corresponding competition from radio, television...

Running head : LEARNING VOCABULARY THROUGH READING Learning Vocabulary through Reading

Multicultural education in Farsi textbooks (Reading) Iran Elementary Education

The purpose of this study was to examine multicultural education in the content of Farsi textbooks of elementary education in Iran.This research was conducted within a qualitative framework and the qualitative content analysis method was used with a conventional (inductive) approach. The sampling method was purposeful and the sample included Farsi textbooks of all the grades of elementary educa...