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"Silence is undervalued as a pedagogical tool, yet it is cost-free and educationally significant. This book explores the phenomenon of silence in schools, its appearances and uses. The author looks first at the negative and coercive aspects of silence in schools, but focuses primarily on the constructive ways in which certain schools use silence. Case studies describe how schools have introduced meditation, quiet spaces and silent moments, and the author analyzes how such initiatives are enhancing the students experience and learning. She explores how awareness of silence can be developed to change school cultures so as to develop and enhance democratic and reflective practices. It illustrates silence as a beneficial educational tool."Silence in Schools" is important reading for head teachers, classroom teachers, policy makers, educational researchers and parents. The conclusions drawn offer useful international applications and show how silence in schools can be effective in many different types of educational setting."--Publisher information.

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This state-of-the-art, comprehensive Handbook fully explores the field of alternative education on an international scale. Alternatives to mainstream schooling and education are becoming increasingly recognised as pertinent and urgent for better understanding what really works in successfully educating children and adults today, especially in light of the increased performance driven and managerially organised economic modelling of education that dominates. For too long we have wondered what “exactly” education done otherwise might look like and here we meet individual examples as well as seeing what alternative education is when a collection becomes greater than the sum of parts. The Handbook profiles numerous empirical examples from around the world of education being done in innovative and excitingly democratic and autonomous ways from Forest Schools and Home Education through to new technologies, neuroscience and the importance of solitude. The book also sets out important theoretical perspectives to inform us why seeing education through an alternative lens is useful as well as urgently needed. Global in its perspective and definitive in content, this one-stop volume will be an indispensable reference resource for a wide range of academics, students and researchers in the fields of Education, Education Policy, Sociology and Philosophy as well as educational practitioners. .

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