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Scientific Temperance Instruction (STI) was a successful grassroots education programme in America, championed by an army of housewives in the Women's Christian Temperance Union. This text argues that the real issue surrounding STI was the struggle to...

This book is the first comprehensive history of Australian education systems, programs and policies of the period since 1960. The narrative of changes in schooling, training and university life is placed in the context of changing policies and...

More than three million students globally are on the move each year, crossing borders for their tertiary education. Many travel from Asia and Africa to English speaking countries, led by the United States, including the UK, Australia and New Zealand...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997252491Author W Nikola-LisaFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Gyroscope BooksPublisher Gyroscope BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878253654Author Amy LoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Educational Solutions Inc.Publisher Educational Solutions Inc.Weight(grams)...

A fascinating and rigorously researched account of the ideas and influence of the artists and teachers who brought about the major advances in national art education during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The outstanding artists to whom the...

An Education of Value is about the problems involved in reforming American schools - in the past and in the decades to come. The authors consider the historical, political, and philosophical tensions between the perennial twin goals of American...

Universities are said to be the 'powerhouses' of modern society. They educate leaders and advance our basic knowledge of nature and society. Yet historically they have been vulnerable when meeting the challenges of dynamic industrial democracies or...

This series of interlinked essays takes the form of historical 'voyages' around the Victorian intellectual John Henry Newman, and Newman's classic work The Idea of a University, as well as changes in the structure and culture of universities which...

Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. Gathering together contributions from scholars,...

In the late nineteenth century, an era in which social mobility was measured almost exclusively by the success of men, Irish American women were leading their ethnic group into the lower middle class occupations of civil service, teaching, and health...

Founded in 1847 in Lebanon, Tennessee, the Cumberland School of Law holds a unique place in the history of American legal education. As the premier law school in the South in the nineteenth century, Cumberland trained two United States Supreme Court...

From the first scholarship given to Harvard in 1643 to today's world of ""enrollment management"" and federal grants and loans, the author gives a lively social and economic history of the conflicting purposes of student aid. His research for this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826513649Author Roger L. GeigerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

This book presents optimistic alternatives to the current educational reform movement, which has not produced substantial improvement. Dwight W. Allen advocates structural reform of education in virtually every aspect--organization, staff, curriculum,...

To Enforce Education constitutes a portion of a larger history, that of federal involvement in public educational policy and practice, and the cycles of action and reaction which abetted and retarded nineteenth-century school development, the...

For many faculty the desire and need to go abroad is inherent in the nature of their discipline. For others the thought of going abroad for scholarly purposes is completely alien. This book, which was sponsored by the Council for International Exchange...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999462096Author Ashley FeazellFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Talented TenthPublisher Talented TenthWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999462065Author Ashley FeazellFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Talented TenthPublisher Talented TenthWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820457482Author Erica SouthgateFormat PaperbackPage Count 261Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 370g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820471433Author E. Thomas EwingFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 450g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985490560Author Jennie MoenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Warrior Publications IncPublisher Warrior Publications IncWeight(grams) 45g

Amelia Akehurst Lines's diaries and letters provide an extraordinarily rich record of the attitudes and values of an "average" American woman of the mid-nineteenth century. Lines was a young New York schoolteacher whose ambition drove her to...

Volume XXV/1 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorreday /f George /i Z.F. picelli /f Luigi /r ed.Book InformationISBN 9780837197029Format HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620557894Author Tar HalvorsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint African MindsPublisher African MindsWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008965614Author Govert WesterveldFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 621gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820448794Author Karen L. GravesFormat PaperbackPage Count 313Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 460g

This book analyses the parallel, different and related aspects of the discovery of poverty in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the role of education in the American 'war on poverty' from 1964, and in Britain from the appointment of the Plowden...

Interest in progressive education and feminist pedagogy has gained a significant following in current educational reform circles. Founding Mothers and Others examines the female founders of progressive schools and other female educational leaders in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008965638Author Govert WesterveldFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 549g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898759181Author Gabriel CompayriFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898755596Author Anton Semenovich MakarenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416608738Author Yong ZhaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 229Imprint Association for Supervision & Curriculum DevelopmentPublisher Association for Supervision...

Religious studies-also known as comparative religion or history of religions-emerged as a field of study in colleges and universities on both sides of the Atlantic during the late nineteenth century. In Europe, as previous historians have demonstrated,...

Using American schools as a reference point, this book provides a comprehensive, comparative description of schooling as a global institution. Each chapter develops a story about a particular global trend: continuing gender differences in achievement,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692949399Author Michael A CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Double Infinity PublishingPublisher Double Infinity PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648725152Author Anne BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Coventry PressPublisher Coventry PressWeight(grams) 140g

The little red schoolhouse has all but disappeared in the United States, but its importance in national memory remains unshakable. This engaging book examines the history of the one-room school and how successive generations of Americans have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980047547Author William Barnaby S J FahertyFormat PaperbackImprint Reedy PressPublisher Reedy PressWeight(grams) 82g