Learning should be fun, and it sure is, if one clearly understands what one is trying to study. If you want to keep up a young students interest and keep him or her winning, you may need a bit of know-how that we never learnt in school. Learning How to Learn explains the three most common issues students of any age or any subject encounter, and their respective remedies. These remedies are so e…
Pendidikan melalui pendekatan etnopedagogi, memandang pengetahuan atau kearifan lokal (local knowledge, local wisdom) sebagai sumber inovasi dan keterampilan yang dapat diberdayakan demi kesejahteraan masyarakat. Kearifan lokal adalah koleksi fakta, konsep, kepercayaan, dan persepsi masyarakat ihwal dunia sekitar. Singkatnya, kearifan lokal adalah proses bagaimana pengetahuan dihasilkan, disimp…
The Proactionary Imperative debates the concept of transforming human nature, including such thorny topics as humanity's privilege as a species, our capacity to 'play God', the idea that we might treat our genes as a capital investment, eugenics and what it might mean to be 'human' in the context of risky scientific and technological interventions.
What is the right social policy for the future? Sar A. Levitan and Robert Taggart have written a book that dispassionately examines recent social programs. They respond to the fashionable arguments that question the results of government intervention and the need to correct social and economic ills. They weigh the charges that new programs have been wasteful, ineffective, and even counterproduc…