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Originally published in 1929, this book was written to provide schoolboys with a guide to the principles of modern methods in various athletics events. Numerous illustrative figures are contained throughout the text, including 'excerpts from slow-motion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739777258Author Iheanyi AnunusoFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint HanyvisionPublisher HanyvisionWeight(grams) 191g

The Shirreff sisters, Emily (1814-97) and Maria (later Grey; 1816-1906) were pioneers in the field of education for girls in the wider context of women's rights. They jointly wrote the influential Thoughts on Self-Culture, Addressed to Women (1850), and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357946544Author J M WilsonPage Count 30Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

The Tudor writer Roger Ascham (c.1514-1568) was royal tutor to Princess Elizabeth. Ascham is best known for his works Toxophilus (1545) and The Scholemaster (1570) which were edited, together with his Report of the Affairs and State of Germany (1570), by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223388746Author Hermann CandahashiFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Hermann CandahashiPublisher Hermann CandahashiWeight(grams) 308g

This book presents expert analysis on how the remarkable rise of mass schooling was funded during the nineteenth century. Based on rich source materials from rural Swedish school districts, and drawing up evidence from schooling in countries including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948853637Author Cheryl Davenport DozierFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Pearly Gates Publishing LLCPublisher Pearly Gates Publishing...

Originally published in 1773 in two volumes, and now reissued here together in one, this work by the writer Hester Chapone (1727-1801), a renowned proponent of female education, contains advice delivered in the form of letters to her niece. The first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906113155Author Stephanie SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Winchester University PressPublisher Winchester University Press

First published in 1927, as the revised edition of a 1923 original, this book was created in response to a 1921 report from the Departmental Committee of the Board of Education. The report criticised the lack of importance given to the teaching of...

Originally published in 1923, this book was the outcome of the wish of the Council of the Girls' Public Day School Trust, now known as the Girls' Day School Trust, to commemorate in written form the jubilee of the foundation of its first schools. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781775356721Author Rosemary LawtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Citadel HousePublisher Citadel HouseWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783030887797Author Lee S ZhuFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Palgrave MacMillanPublisher Palgrave MacMillanWeight(grams) 318g

Variously a teacher, clergyman and town mayor, William Fordyce Mavor (1758-1837) wrote prolifically on a range of literary, historical and educational topics. This work, first published in 1801 and reissued here in a corrected and improved edition of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637983232Author J G CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Cirrus Test PrepPublisher Cirrus Test PrepWeight(grams) 658g

In the history of education, the question of how computers were introduced into European classrooms has so far been largely neglected. This edited volume strives to address this gap. The contributions shed light on the computerization of education from a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987230008Author Matthew D HaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Every Dollar Countz LLCPublisher Every Dollar Countz LLCWeight(grams) 549g

This book provides a complete overview of the development of education in Ireland including the complex issue of how religion can coexist with education and how a national identity can be aided through Irish language teaching. It also offers a...

This book outlines the lives of six female members of the Irish Ascendancy, and describes their involvement with educational provision for poor children in Ireland at the end of the long eighteenth century. It argues that these women were moved by...

This book examines the life of Virginia Gildersleeve, the dean of Barnard College from 1911 to 1947, who dedicated her life to expanding women's collegiate opportunities to match those of men, and to allow women entry into professional and graduate...

With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field's most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has...

The author of handbooks that reflected the Victorian emphasis on bettering one's prospects, Charles Eyre Pascoe (1842-1912) addressed the topic of female education in this work of 1879, at a time when the Cambridge colleges of Girton and Newnham were in...

From small beginnings in the later medieval period, and very slowly through the centuries, by the end of the nineteenth century Bruton in Somerset had three Sunday Schools, an Infant School which became a large National School, private day and boarding...

Emily Pfeiffer (1827-1890) was a British poet, writer and feminist. Best known for her poetry and sonnets, Pfeiffer also published essays and articles for numerous publications addressing the status of women in contemporary society. This volume, first...

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This book traces the early history of the Montessori movement in the United States through the lives and careers of four key American women: Anne George, Margaret Naumburg, Helen Parkhurst, and Adelia Pyle. Caught up in the Montessori craze sweeping the...

While much mainstream educational research maintains that teacher unions should be outlawed or their powers greatly reduced, Bascia and her contributors, including many of the leading teacher union researchers working today, challenge this position...

First published in 1919, this book addresses the history of education in England from the 4th century AD to the early years of the 20th century. Adamson examines the impact of significant events, such as the Black Death, on contemporary systems of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798224054220Author Sheryl FryFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Sheryl FryPublisher Sheryl FryWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361477041Author Ray Coppock BeeryPage Count 326Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Deploying a spatial approach towards children’s everyday life in interwar Hong Kong, this book considers the context-specific development of five transnational movements: the garden city movement; imperial hygiene movement; nationalist sentiments; the...

Public debates on academic freedom have become increasingly contentious, and understandings of what it is and its purposes are contested within the academy, policymakers and the general public. Drawing on rich empirical interview data, this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665749589Author Mirza Iqbal AshrafFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 594g

The American Educational History Journal is a peer-reviewed, national research journal devoted to the examination of educational topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines. The editors of AEHJ encourage communication between scholars from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781466962002Author Soji Oni (Ph D)Format PaperbackPage Count 638Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

John Ayrton Paris (1785-1856), writer and physician, became a member of the Linnean Society in 1810, and served as president of the Royal College of Physicians from 1844 until his death. Intended for children and originally composed for the author's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869335203Author Timothy W YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint AMZ Pro HubPublisher AMZ Pro HubWeight(grams) 1538g