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“In Understanding Life in School: From Academic Classroom to Outdoor Education, John Quay endeavours to restore and promote Dewey’s concept of occupational education. … Quay does succeed in demonstrating the benefits of designing curriculum around occupational experiences—particularly where serenity and beauty are valued over speed and deadlines. Under these conditions, the outdoor curriculum featured in Understanding Life in School becomes a cooperative venture.” (Jefferson Kinsman, Educational Philosophy and Theory, March, 2018)
“Understanding Life In School offers a wealth of interesting narrative information about how these particular teens view their experiences in and out of school. It also makes avaliant effort at convincing us that we should educate children, not future adults.” (Susan Engel, Teachers College Record, 2016)
Philip W. Jackson - David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Education and Psychology at the University of Chicago, USA
"This book is a worthy companion to Philip W. Jackson's Life in Classrooms. It addresses the complexities of life in schools, providing a rich account of how students interpret and negotiate these complexities. In an analysis that is both philosophically astute and highly accessible, John Quay shows how education for these students is about much more than knowing it is about being and becoming."
Fazal Rizvi - Professor in Global Studies in Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
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Book Title: Understanding Life in School
Book Subtitle: From Academic Classroom to Outdoor Education
Authors: John Quay
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137391230
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Education Collection, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-39122-3Published: 28 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-39123-0Published: 27 July 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 173
Topics: Educational Philosophy, Learning & Instruction, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Policy and Politics