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Real Learning, Real Work: School-To-Work As High School Reform

Name: Real Learning, Real Work: School-To-Work As High School Reform
Author: Adria Steinberg
ISBN: 9780415917926

by Adria Steinberg

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A central paradox of American education today is that classrooms are often not conducive to learning. Young people who are bright, active participants in outside-of- school settings become disengaged or hostile in the classroom. Through detailed portrayals of

innovative programs, Real Learning, Real Work demonstrates how students can learn to embrace what they learn in the classroom when they are able to use the intellectual tools of the sciences and the humanities to make sense of their outside experience.

Contributors: Adria Steinberg, Rob Riordan and Margaret Vickers.

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An examination of the school-to-work movement by the program director at Jobs for the Future in Boston and two other contributors. The focus is the question of whether this movement is a new version of the old vocational education program for non-college bound students or a new paradigm for the education of all students in which the working world makes the learning process come alive. Topics addressed along the way include project-based learning, grounding projects in community life, building science understanding through work- based learning, and uncovering the humanities in work-based learning programs. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.