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This book looks at educational reforms in Pakistan during Parvez Musharraf’s tenure as President (1999 – 2008) and analyses the relationship between education policy and curriculum and Pakistani identity and citizenship.It explores changes in the...

Joel Spring’s history of school policies imposed on dominated groups in the United States examines the concept of deculturalization—the use of schools to strip away family languages and cultures and replace them with those of the dominant group. The...

This book explores the literary history of the zhiqing, Chinese educated youth, during the liberal 1980s era of the PRC.By incorporating personal experiences, literary representation, shared history, and theory, it argues that attention to bodies’...

In Ancient Greek Heroes, Athletes, Poetry, Gregory Nagy continues where The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours left off. This book is also centered on some of the greatest masterpieces of ancient Greek literature—including the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey and...

Originally published in 1935, Testing Children's Development from Birth to School Age highlighted the greatly increased interest in measuring the development of pre-school children by other means than the older, inadequate "intelligence tests". In the...

Focusing on current educational systems in the US, UK, and Australia, Grant Rodwell examines the politics of gaslighting within school educational policy and how this links to political motives in a post-truth world. In recent years, gaslighting has...

This book examines relationships between language and sustainable development in the context of Bangladesh. Following inclusive and multidisciplinary perspectives, these relationships are explored in mainstream education, teacher education, religious...

This important book explores the intersection between mental health and Black college students, providing a crucial resource for higher education administrators and educators. Chapter authors provide invaluable insights into the experiences, joys,...

A visionary overview of the political role of publicly elected school boards and a proactive take on the work they can accomplish toward social justice  In Navigating School Board Politics, Carrie R. Sampson examines the political power of the US...

Public Policy and Higher Education, 3rd Edition provides readers with the tools to examine how policies affect students’ access and success in college. Rather than arguing for a single approach, the authors use research-based evidence and consider...

What do we mean when we say that a text is relevant to a young person or to a group of young people? And how might a reimagining of relevance, shaped through the voices of young men of color, enhance literacy teaching and learning? Based on case studies...

In a context of increased politicization led by state and federal policymakers, corporate reformers, and for-profit educational organizations, The Politics of Education Policy in an Era of Inequality explores a new vision for leading schools grounded in...

This book offers the first critical edition with an English translation and commentary on some of the letters attributed to Alexander and transmitted by mainly Plutarch and Arrian. The vast majority of the texts examined here are constituted by...

Theory holds the capacity to help educators see the world differently, challenge problematic assumptions and practices that cultivate harm, and illuminate pathways toward access, equity, justice, joy, and love. While it is easy to underestimate the role...

A new biography of an unjustly neglected Victorian novelist, with original research drawing on his unpublished correspondence, and his work as both a journalist and a novelist.

'Imprinted' is a history of reading and the development of a literary culture in the Caribbean from the late 19th century to contemporary times. It explores the places and spaces of such a cultural journey, during and after the colonial period, in...

Morgan’s study of key texts situating Edmund Spenser and the plantation in Munster in the late 1590s reveals not only a hatred and abiding fear of the Catholic Irish but also disturbing tensions with the state in England including the Queen herself. In...

The Brontës and the Fairy Tale is the first comprehensive study devoted to the role of fairy tales and folklore in the work of Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell Brontë. It intervenes in debates on genre, literary realism, the history of the fairy...

How presidential metaphors have shaped US discourse on the Persian Gulf From the 1970s to the 1990s American presidents and their advisers introduced four metaphors into foreign-policy discourse that taught Americans to view the Persian Gulf as a...

This book examines Chinese traditional poetry with an emphasis on the sources of pleasure in creating and appreciating classical Chinese poems and the basis for valid aesthetic judgments about poetry.The pleasure derived from art plays a crucial role in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781138938281Author Christian MatthiessenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book explores British reflections of Japanese education between 1858 and 1914, by referring to accounts by British observers, derived from documentary sources such as newspapers, journal articles, published books and official reports. Hiraoka argues...

This book presents a road map for developing media education targeted toward Generation Z (people born between the mid-1990s to 2010). It offers insights into how curriculums can be updated to reflect current media trends and helps bridge the gap between...

Everything you need to help teach the children in your classroom about relationships education can be found in this activity book. Understanding how relationships work is integral to development of all children. From exploring the concept of 'family' to...

This authoritative and user-friendly guide to the use of secondary data in educational research is the only one to cover the full breadth of both qualitative and quantitative secondary data sources, covering the spectrum from large-scale studies down to...

Drawing on a wealth of material from children's periodicals from the Victorian era to the early twentieth century, Kristine Moruzi examines how the concept of the charitable child has been defined through the press. Charitable ideals became increasingly...

Are you unsure what your thesis should look like? Perhaps you are struggling to get started or tie everything together in your conclusion? Help is here! Taking you from the introduction all the way through to the conclusion, this practical guide will...

Explores Robert Burns's political legacy in modern and contemporary Scotland.

With the social, economic and political challenges alongside implications of the digital era and environmental sustainability in the 21st century, understanding how children feel about themselves, particularly within the complex web of their...

This teaching guidebook will help educators navigate emerging best practices to center historically marginalized voices and perspectives in middle, high school, and postsecondary learning spaces. The author provides an accessible blueprint for utilizing...

This interactive guide is designed to help preservice early childhood educators use self-compassion to mitigate the stress of teaching. Barry argues that learning healthy stress-management strategies while enrolled in teacher education programs will...

Many teachers do not feel confident in their role, particularly as they are increasingly expected to address topics with their pupils that they feel ill-equipped to deal with. Co-authored by two highly experienced educators, All The Things They Never...

Verbal and non-verbal communicative acts mark the links within our discourse, help us to exchange turns and give backchannel in conversation. This book analyses the communicative system of gaze in depth, investigating its structure and functions the same...

This book is essential reading for any Early Years or Early Childhood Studies student. Bringing you up-to-date with latest developments and key issues, this book helps you to understand the child in relation to society. The book is divided into three...

The South is often perceived as a haunted place in its region's literature, one that is strange, deviant, or ""queer."" The peculiar, often sexually charged literary worlds of contemporary writers like Fannie Flagg, Monique Truong, and Randall Kenan...

A Way to Live Now juxtaposes the dual roles of fiction writer and journalist throughout the career of Ernest Hemingway. Focusing on the author's appearances in Esquire over forty years, John Fenstermaker traces the evolving nature of Hemingway's presence...

Critical and historical discussions of the life and work of Federico García Lorca, Spain's foremost poet and playwright of the twentieth century, often obscure the author's more avant-garde dramatic works. In Lorca's Experimental Theater, Andrew A...

The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature theorizes the child gaze as a narrative strategy for social critique in twentieth- and twenty-first-century US literature for children and adults. Through a range of texts, including James...

In contemporary Western society, childhood appears more protected than ever to the casual onlooker. Yet, we are increasingly fascinated by narratives in which children are depicted as unsettling beings, both dangerous and endangered, sometimes chaotic or...

The poetry of Alexandria under the first three Ptolemies represents a second golden age of Greek literature. The eminence grise of poetic circles was Callimachus, whose poetic manifesto in favour of small scale, meticulously detailed and mannered works...