Sometimes brains aren't everything. George R. Clark is gifted. Mentally, he's light-years ahead of his classmates. His parents worship him, and his teachers adore him. But socially, George is at the bottom of the curve. Most of his classmates avoid him-if he's lucky. Until the Bruise Brothers, the intellectually challenged members of the school football team, decide they want George to pass a test of their own design. Only the fact that George's father is the school principal has saved him in the past. But his father isn't going on the eighth grade science field trip, and George has a feeling it's going to be open season on dorks. Suddenly thrown into a crash course on human nature, without his father to protect him, the most intellectually gifted kid in the eighth-grade might actually learn something before the end of the trip . . . if he survives it.
Sometimes brains aren't everything. George R. Clark is gifted. Mentally, he's light-years ahead of his classmates. His parents worship him, and his teachers adore him. But socially, George is at the bottom of the curve.
"During the last few years the results of tests and measurement in the public schools have brought into relief a great variety of educational problems which had previously been overlooked or the importance of which had been insufficiently appreciated. Among these is the problem of the gifted child. Although experimental studies in the education of defectives have been made from time to time for almost a century, it was not until the results of intelligence tests began to come in, a decade ago, that the need of special educational provision for children of exceptional ability began to be recognized. One reason for the general neglect of this field of pedagogy has been the widespread belief that the apparently gifted child is merely precocious, and usually pathologically so. However, recent experimental studies have shown conclusively that this belief has little or no foundation in fact. All the scientific evidence at hand points to the conclusion that gifted children are superior to unselected children in physical and non-intellectual mental traits as well as in intelligence, and that they carry this advantage into adult life. We are coming to recognize that from their ranks, and from nowhere else, our geniuses in every line are recruited. Instead of working upon the "wonder child" as an individual to be pitied because of his supposed abnormality, and to be shielded from intellectual stimulation for fear of injury to his delicate nervous structure, we are beginning to see the problem in an entirely different light. The education of the gifted child has adopted a positive rather than a negative aim. We wish to know what educational methods will enable us to make the most of the superior raw material afforded by our gifted group; it is no longer a question of how best to defend a special type of pathologically tainted individuals from an imminent and unhappy fate. At the present time there are in progress scores if not hundreds of experiments in the training of gifted children. Unfortunately, few of these have been under way any considerable length of time and fewer still have been adequately reported. We are learning a great deal about the mental and physical traits of such children, but we still know very little as to the most effective methods of training them. The editor believes that Miss Stedman's rather detailed account of the methods she has found most useful in her five years of experience with such children is an important educational contribution. It should be of interest not only to teachers of similar classes, but to educators generally and to parents; for it is by no means improbable that the educational methods best adapted to gifted children will be found to have wide applicability in the training of all children. Normal pedagogy has certainly benefited from the pedagogy of defectives; it has far more to learn from the pedagogy of the gifted"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved).
Buku ini membahas perihal Filsafat Pendidikan yang lahir dari ilmu pendidikan sebagai ilmu pengetahuan praktis, mengandung maksud bahwa pendidikan sebagai aspek kebudayaari mempunyai tugas, antara lain menyalurkan nilai-nilai hidup, melestarikan, dan mengembangkan nilai-nilai norma tingkah laku kepada subjek didik yang bersumber dari filsafat dan/atau kearifan orangtua dan keluarga. Pelaksanan pendidikan tersebut juga merangkum antara teori pengetahuan dan filsafat yang terkandung di dalam pelajaran yang diberikan oleh para pendidik. Kajian utamaÊfilsafat pendidikanÊini secara komprehensif menyajikan dan membahas topik materi pokok filsafat, antara lain: (1) Pengertian dan kedudukan filsafat dalam ilmu pengetahuan dan kehidupan manusia; (2) Pengertian pendidikan dan filsafat pendidikan serta peranannya; (3) Masalah pokok filsafat dan pendidikan; (4) Proses hidup sebagai dasar filsafat pendidikan; (5) Tujuan hidup dan tujuan pendidikan; (6) Fungsi pendidikan dalam kehidupan manusia sebagai makhluk biologis; (7) Demokrasi pendidikan; serta (8) Aliran dalam filsafat pendidikan. ------- Penerbit Kencana (Prenadamedia Group)
Buku ini membahas perihal Filsafat Pendidikan yang lahir dari ilmu pendidikan sebagai ilmu pengetahuan praktis, mengandung maksud bahwa pendidikan sebagai aspek kebudayaari mempunyai tugas, antara lain menyalurkan nilai-nilai hidup, ...
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim Buku pelajaran Sejarah Kebudayaan Islam untuk Madrasah Aliyah (MA) Kelas XII ini disusun tetap berdasarkan Kurikulum Madrasah yang dikeluarkan Menteri Agama RI Tahun 2013, yang dalam pelaksanaannya berpedoman kepada Keputusan Menteri Agama RI No. 165 Tahun 2014, dan Surat Edaran Dirjen Pendis Kemenag RI Tahun 2015, terdiri atas 9 Bab. Setiap bab mengandung: uraian materi pelajaran, rangkuman, hikmah, evaluasi dan tugas dari bab yang bersangkutan.
Mensyukuri nikmat Allah Swt. berupa kekayaan peradaban yang diraih umat Islam zaman sekarang 2. Menghayati dan mengamalkan perilaku jujur, disiplin, tanggung jawab, 2.1. Menunjukkan perilaku bijaksana (hikmah) sebagai implementasi dari ...
Berlandaskan Al-Quran, hadis, ajaran para salaf saleh, dan ketajaman mata hati seorang guru spiritual, al-Syabrâwî hendak menuntun Anda bagaimana membersihkan pelbagai kotoran yang menggerogoti kecerdasan jiwa Anda, lalu memaparkan tahap-tahap perkembangan kualitas jiwa dari jiwa terendah (al-nafs al-ammârah) hingga puncak kesempurnaannya (al-nafs al-kâmilah) lengkap dengan rambu-rambu, dorongan, peringatan, dan penggambaran keadaan, serta kedudukan rohani. Tahap demi tahap diulas lugas sebagai satu rangkaian perjalanan panjang menuju Allah, muara segala hamba. " Inilah buku yang ditunggu muslim yang mendamba sapaan-mesra Allah Diterbitkan oleh penerbit Serambi Ilmu Semesta" (Serambi Group)
Berlandaskan Al-Quran, hadis, ajaran para salaf saleh, dan ketajaman mata hati seorang guru spiritual, al-Syabrâwî hendak menuntun Anda bagaimana membersihkan pelbagai kotoran yang menggerogoti kecerdasan jiwa Anda, lalu memaparkan tahap ...
Comparative Lessons from the Labor Movement in Turkey
Some social movements bring in quick, radical political and social changes while others get incorporated into existing systems or subjected to harsh repression. This book examines why social movements elicit different policy responses and their varying impact on the societies in which they occur. It also seeks to understand why seemingly inconsequential movements can nonetheless have enduring effects. These issues are explored through the comparative historical analysis of four labor movements, in the UK and the U.S. in the late 1800s -early 1900s, in Japan from 1945 to 1960, and in Turkey during the mid to late 1900s, which is the book's primary case study. Turkey's labor movement, although often seen as a failure, greatly influenced state-society relations and contemporary Turkish politics. This significant study offers a new framework of analysis by focusing on social movement impacts rather than successes or failures. This leads to having to reconsider the enduring effects of repressed or failed movements. By doing so, it will help researchers study the likely impact of social movements in today's politics.
I often begin discussing the labor movement in Turkey by recalling my
experiences at a May Day rally in Ankara that I attended in 2004.1 The rally itself
was a mix of carnival and politics. Groups of young people danced beneath
banners, while ...
