History

Between 1970 and 1985, lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) educators publicly left their classroom closets, formed communities, and began advocating for a place of openness and safety for LGB people in America's schools. They fought for protection and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896300115Author Elizabeth McLachlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 187Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 212g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877372865Author Helen MayFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 708g

An art historian, cultural critic and political theorist, John Ruskin was, above all, a great educator. The inspiration behind William Morris, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust and Mahatma Gandhi, Ruskin's influence can be felt increasingly in every sphere...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607415091Author Daniel Namusonge SifunaFormat HardbackPage Count 241Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

A Centennial, writes Hebrew College President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, "is an invitation to reflect on the last century of teaching and learning at Hebrew College, to ask ourselves what has changed and what has endured, to explore accomplishments and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783085651Author Rob SorensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787359338Author Takaaki InuzukaFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787357976Author Stuart FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

White Spot, a popular BC restaurant chain solicits hamburger concepts from third and fourth grade students and one of their ideas becomes a feature on the kids' menu. Home Depot donates playground equipment to an elementary school, and the ribbon-cutting...

Beyond Pinocchio is a meticulous examination of renowned author Carlo Collodi’s primers and his debunking Italian bourgeois propaganda ‘from within’. In his government-approved books for primary school, Collodi offered a view of society that was...

To ensure reliable, accurate, and timely data, which are necessary to monitor the progress of U.S. education, Congress has mandated that the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) produce an annual report, 'The Condition of Education'. This...

This book provides important information regarding the Millennium Development Goals, adopted unanimously by the United Nations in 2000, setting explicit targets in terms of achieving progress in the developing world. This volume provides both a...

This series has its focus on the challenges and changes facing education at the beginning of the new millennium. 'Emerging goals' link each volume. The European Union has experienced enormous unification pains including expansion to 25 countries. For the...

Transforming Education The South African ExperienceBook InformationISBN 9781590334201Author Noleen van WykFormat HardbackPage Count 167Imprint Nova BiomedicalPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 418g

In the state of Florida in the 1960s, the tension between the costs of funding a quality education program and the taxes required to do so exploded into a confrontation between the state's teachers and the Florida power structure. For a century or more,...

With the current emphasis on standards in the schools, one may think that this is a new phenomenon. However, as this pamphlet clearly demonstrates, while standards in American schools have a long history dating back to Reconstruction, the recommendations...

Purdue at 150: AVisual History of Indiana's Land-Grant University by David M. Hovde, Adriana Harmeyer, Neal Harmeyer, and Sammie L. Morris tells Purdue's story through rare images, artifacts, and words. Authors culled decades of student papers, from...

A compelling history of school desegregation and activism in San Francisco The picture of school desegregation in the United States is often painted with broad strokes of generalization and insulated anecdotes. Its true history, however, is...

How the Great Recession revealed a system of school choice built on crisis, precarity, and exclusion   What do universal rights to public goods like education mean when codified as individual, private choices? Is the “problem” of school choice actually...

In A Is for Arson, Campbell F. Scribner sifts through two centuries of debris to uncover the conditions that have prompted school vandalism and to explain why attempts at prevention have inevitably failed. Vandalism costs taxpayers hundreds of millions...

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of two of the most influential books in modern educational and social theory, Rethinking Freire and Illich introduces readers to the results of the symposium of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Ivan Illich's...

Science fiction literature and film are an underappreciated source for the teaching of history. Finding material that can excite a student’s curiosity can be a key towards greater student engagement, especially among students who are taking history as a...

Science fiction literature and film are an underappreciated source for the teaching of history. Finding material that can excite a student’s curiosity can be a key towards greater student engagement, especially among students who are taking history as a...

The World Today Series: East & Southeast Asia provides historical background on the evolution of Modern East & Southeast Asia to help readers gain a thorough understanding of contemporary developments in this vital region. Broad introductory...

For the average person, most of the American history that he or she knows comes from facts taught to them in school to prepare them for their state mandated tests. That's not the fault of their teachers who were just carrying out the directives of their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913966457Author Benjamin A. RoggeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 377g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874135459Author Anne T. QuartararoFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Delaware PressPublisher Associated University Presses

In late summer 1940, as war spread across Europe and as the nation pulled itself out of the Great Depression, an anticommunist hysteria convulsed New York City. Targeting the city's municipal colleges and public schools, the New York state legislature's...

In an age when innovative scholarly work is at an all-time high, the academy itself is being rocked by structural change. Funding is plummeting. Tenure increasingly seems a prospect for only the elite few. Ph.D.'s are going begging for even adjunct work...

Sports films are popular forms of entertainment around the world, but beyond simply amusing audiences, they also reveal much about class, race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. In All-Stars and Movie Stars, Ron Briley, Michael K. Schoenecke,...

Christian organizations have always played a large role in Canadian education. By 1949, five provinces had constitutionally protected denominational schools. The federal government’s responsibility for the education of Indigenous Peoples was effectively...

Christian organizations have always played a large role in Canadian education. By 1949, five provinces had constitutionally protected denominational schools. The federal government’s responsibility for the education of Indigenous Peoples was effectively...

This book will appeal to higher education, public policy, and public administration scholars in Canada and the United States. Provincial education policy makers and college and university administrators will also find it of interest.Book InformationISBN...

This book will be of interest to scholars of modern China and thehistory of education.Book InformationISBN 9780774821766Author Elizabeth R. VanderVenFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of British...

Alex Lord, a pioneer inspector of rural British Columbia schools,shares in these recollections his experiences in a province barely outof the stage coach era. Travelling through vast northern territory,utilizing unreliable transportation and enduring...

Often overlooked in the infamous history of U.S. internment during World War II is the plight of internee children. Drawn from personal interviews and multiple primary source materials, Schools behind Barbed Wire is the first book to uncover this unique...

The education implementation process in China remains uncharted by researchers. The Implementation of Inclusive Education in Beijing: Exorcizing the Haunting Specter of Meritocracy puts forth a general theory on China's education programs, encompassing...

Focusing on the post war reconstruction of the education systems in Japan and Germany under U.S. military occupation after World War II, this book offers a comparative historical investigation of education reform policies in these two war ravaged and...

Beyond the Gymnasium is the first systematic effort to examine the history of the body in modern Germany. By looking into medical dietetics, walking, dancing, gymnastics, cholera, and classrooms, Heikki Lempa reconstructs the ways the middle-class body...