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Pathfinder : Alternative Education

Scope Note :

Here are entered works on "diverse educational programs, provided as alternatives within or outside the formal educational system, which offer a choice and reflect changing social, economic or cultural needs of individual students or society (includes alternative goals, structures, delivery systems, curriculum content and methods, etc.) - also, programs to promote such choice and diversity" [Quoted from: http://www.acer.edu.au/library/ated/]

Used for :

  • Alternative courses
  • Alternative education
  • Educational choice
  • Educational diversity
  • Nontraditional education
  • Teaching alternatives
  • Training alternatives

Narrower Terms :

  • Deschooling

Related Terms :

  • Access to education
  • Bridging courses Community schools
  • Degree requirements
  • Distance education
  • Diversity (Institutional)
  • Educational development
  • Educational innovation
  • Educational methods
  • Educational needs
  • Educational opportunities
  • Educational principles
  • Educational theories
  • Experimental curriculum
  • Experimental schools
  • Extension education
  • External study programs
  • Field studies
  • Flexible learning
  • Folk schools
  • Free schools
  • Home study
  • Individualized education programs
  • Informal education
  • International schools
  • Magnet schools
  • Non-formal education
  • Non-traditional students
  • Open learning
  • Open universities
  • Parent participation
  • Prior learning
  • Re-entry students
  • School choice
  • Special degree programs
  • Teaching innovations
  • Traditional schools
  • Transitional schools
  • Work placement

BOOKS

Reference sources located at the Information- Reference Section, 2nd floor
Texts located at the American Studies Research Center, Groundfloor:
Texts located at Bro. Andrew Gonzalez Hall Library, 2nd floor
Texts located at Bro. Benedict LRC, AGH Bldg. 18th floor Andrew Hall:
Texts located at the Circulation Section, 3rd floor
Texts located at the Filipiniana, 4th floor:

Texts located at the Special Collection :

  • Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC Collection, Ground floor:
  • Calderon Collection,  Archives Section 4th floor:
  • Foronda Collection,  Archives Section 4th floor:

PERIODICALS

PRINT

Periodicals Section, 2nd floor:
Br. Benedict Learning Resource Center, Andrew Gonzalez Hall, 18th floor:

ELECTRONIC

PROQUEST Online
http://www.umi.com/pqdauto

EBSCO Host
http://search.ebscohost.com

JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org

Gale Computer Online
http://infotrac.apla.galegroup.com/itweb/dlsu

ARTICLES

European Documentation Centre, 1st floor:
Periodicals Section, 2nd floor:

VERTICAL FILES
(Information Reference Section. 2nd floor)

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
(Archives Section, 4th floor)

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

LOCAL
(Archives Section, 4th floor)

FOREIGN

INTERNET WEBSITES
(Cybernook, Ground floor; Graduate corners, 2nd and 3rd floors)

European American University: Education beyond boundaries: Distance Learning Degrees
http://www.thedegree.org/cerresources3.html
This website of the European American University contains “resources on the issues of online, distance and nontraditional education”.

An introduction to non-traditional education
http://www.nontraditionaleducation.net
This article discusses the history and origin of the nontraditional movement in education.

Nontraditional Education in Rural Districts.
http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-9211/rural.htm
This digest “ looks at a few nontraditional education programs and strategies that maybe offered in schools, or may take place outside the modern school setting”.

Nontraditional undergraduates
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/2002012.pdf
The study presents a “special analysis that describes and compares nontraditional undergraduates in terms of their demographic characteristics, enrollment patterns, ways of combining school and work, participation in distance education and persistence patterns”

Paths of learning: an introduction to educational alternatives
http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/PoL.html#intro
This paper “offers an exploration into educational alternatives that exist between the cracks of mainstream education and culture which are learner-centered, progressive, and holistic. It is intended to provide an initial window for seeing the similarities and differences among alternatives while pointing teachers and parents toward other resources for further exploration, making it possible to find (or create) educational alternatives in your own communities that best match your evolving beliefs and core values”.


Should you have comments or suggestions on this pathfinder, please call us at these telephone numbers, 536-0244, 524-4611 local 620 or email us through "Ask LORA".

Compiled by: Mrs. Yolanda F. Odsinada, Mr. Roderick B. Ramos and Ms. Kathrina C. Pacia
Date: September 2009