This book was first published in 1979 and is about how we see: the environment around us (its surfaces, their layout, and their colors and textures); where we are in the environment; whether or not we are moving and, if we are, where we are going; what things are good for; how to do things (to thread a needle or drive an automobile); or why things look as they do.
A compelling and fascinating account of how we must change our thinking about the environment, The Ecological Self is a classic of ecological and environmental thinking. This Routledge Classics edition includes a substantial new introduction by the author.
Divided into four sections, the first examines the ends of education and outlines a conception of education as an initiation into critical enquiry and the personal art of learning. The middle sections consider aesthetic education. The final section offers appraisals of figures in the arts field.
This text is a fully empirical account of a genuinely global movement of higher education institutions to increase university civic engagement. The volume offers three special contributions to the literature on higher education policy and practice.
The English Exorcist presents an intellectual history of John Darrell, a controversial Puritan exorcist in the early modern period. It illustrates that Darrell's exorcism ministry and demonological works were a catalyst for spiritual reform in the early seventeenth century Church of England.
This book is a complete guide to Forest School provision and nature pedagogy, and it examines the models, methods, worldviews and values that underpin teaching in nature. It shows how a robust nature pedagogy can support learning, behaviour and physical and emotional wellbeing, and, importantly, a deeper relationship with the natural world.
A vitally important work of philosophical anthropology and a devastating criticism of the theory of behaviourism. Includes a new Preface by the author and a new Foreword by Alva Noe, setting the book in philosophical and historical context.
A tour de force of both European and military history, The Franco-Prussian War is a superb account of this hugely important conflict, ideal for the student, historian and general reader alike. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Bertrand Taithe.