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Education as Freedom: African American Educational Thought and Activism by Noel S. Anderson 9780739120682
RRP: $193.05$168.79Before the founding of the United States, enslaved Africans advocated literacy as a method of emancipation. During the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, blacks were at the forefront of the debates on the establishment of public schools in the... -
Academic Freedom in Hong Kong by Jan Currie 9780739110812
RRP: $163.80$143.62In Academic Freedom in Hong Kong, Jan Currie, Carole J. Petersen, and Ka Ho Mok explore the unique situation in Hong Kong, a tiny jurisdiction in which there is active protection for the freedom of expression despite the close proximity and relationship... -
Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History by William J. Reese 9780674073043
RRP: $93.50$75.35Written tests to evaluate students were a radical and controversial innovation when American educators began adopting them in the 1800s. Testing quickly became a key factor in the political battles during this period that gave birth to America's modern... -
Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond by Eric Adler 9780472130153
$138.24Beginning with a short intellectual history of the academic culture wars,Eric Adler's book examines popular polemics including those by AllanBloom and Dinesh D'Souza, and considers the oddly marginal role ofclassical studies in these conflicts. In... -
Language, Religion, Knowledge: Past and Present by James Turner 9780268033569
RRP: $161.85$140.61Higher education and university-based research rank among the main forces shaping our world. Focusing on knowledge rather than institutions, Language, Religion, Knowledge offers penetrating insight into how higher learning took its present form and the... -
Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History by Eric Fure-Slocum 9780252045547
RRP: $200.85$173.82An educational crisis from its origins to present-day experiences In the United States today, almost three-quarters of the people teaching in two- and four-year colleges and universities work as contingent faculty. They share the hardships endemic in the... -
Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community by Ansley T. Erickson 9780231182201
RRP: $146.25$113.28Over the course of the twentieth century, education was a key site for envisioning opportunities for African Americans, but the very schools they attended sometimes acted as obstacles to black flourishing. Educating Harlem brings together a... -
A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile by Judith Friedlander 9780231180191
RRP: $42.90$33.85The New School for Social Research opened in 1919 as an act of protest. Founded in the name of academic freedom, it quickly emerged as a pioneer in adult education—providing what its first president, Alvin Johnson, liked to call “the continuing education... -
A Lever Long Enough: A History of Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science Since 1864 by Robert A. McCaughey 9780231166881
RRP: $81.90$65.21In this comprehensive social history of Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), Robert McCaughey combines archival research with oral testimony and contemporary interviews to build a critical and celebratory portrait of... -
Reds at the Blackboard: Communism, Civil Rights, and the New York City Teachers Union by Clarence Taylor 9780231152686
RRP: $179.40$140.03The New York City Teachers Union shares a deep history with the American left, having participated in some of its most explosive battles. Established in 1916, the union maintained an early, unofficial partnership with the American Communist Party,... -
Capital of Mind: The Idea of a Modern American University by Adam R. Nelson 9780226829203
RRP: $78.00$66.28The second volume of an ambitious new economic history of American higher education.Capital of Mind is the second volume in a breathtakingly ambitious new economic history of American higher education. Picking up from the first volume, Exchange of Ideas,... -
Teaching & Educating for a New Europe: A Challenge for the Countries of the European Union by Bryan T. Peck 9781560723868
RRP: $181.33$146.76Over the last 40 years, a revolution has taken place in Europe. There is now a European Union. As a part of building the Union, it was clear from the start that it was essential to develop a European dimension in education. This book outlines the key... -
Dirt Don't Burn: A Black Community's Struggle for Educational Equality Under Segregation by Larry Roeder 9781647123635
RRP: $46.80$41.30This inspiring, true story of a Black community sheds new light on the history of segregation and inequity in American education The system of educational apartheid that existed in the United States until the Brown v. Board of Education decision and its... -
Education in China: 21st Century Issues & Challenges by Seren Hall 9781604567038
RRP: $294.43$194.82Since the 1990s, many reform measures have been initiated to improve the quality of basic education in China. The major ones include restructuring of the school system, reformation of the school curriculum and of evaluation methods for students'... -
Current Discourse on Education in Developing Nations: Essays in Honor of B Robert Tanachnick & Robert Koehl by Michael O. Afolayan 9781594547744
RRP: $319.78$212.43Comparative studies receive relatively little attention in U.S. education. Comparative work done by people who are either international scholars or have spent extensive (and intensive) periods of time in international contexts rarely shows up on course... -
Representative Sadleriana: Sir Michael Sadler 1861-1943 on English, French, German & American Schools & Society -- A Perennial Reader for Academics & the General Public by Jack Sislian 9781590339893
RRP: $226.18$183.14This book is long overdue, especially in the fields of education, in general, and comparative education, in particular, anywhere in the world, where educational issues are reflected on, researched or written about. Unlike many current books on education... -
Going Back to the Future: A Leadership Journey for Educators by Robert Palestini 9781607095866
$204.85It was Edmund Burke, the British Statesman and philosopher, who said that those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. In this book, at least as far as educational leadership is concerned, Robert Palestini helps ensure that we do not fall into... -
The Forge: The History of Goldsmiths' College, 1905-1955 by Dorothy Dymond 9781032616056
RRP: $169.63$147.30First Published in 1955 The Forge presents the history of Goldsmiths' College from 1905 to 1955. It discusses themes like fifty years of growth by highlighting the beginnings, the time period between the wars, during the Second World War and the post-war... -
Education in a Free Society by Benjamin A. Rogge 9780913966006
RRP: $17.45$15.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913966006Author Benjamin A. RoggeFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 583g -
Education and the Industrial Revolution by Edwin G. West 9780865973091
RRP: $35.00$29.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865973091Author Edwin G. WestFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 686g -
Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress by Ramsey McGlazer 9780823286591
RRP: $193.05$167.19Old Schools marks out a modernist countertradition. The book makes sense of an apparent anachronism in twentieth-century literature and cinema: a fascination with outmoded, paradigmatically pre-modern educational forms that persists long after they are... -
Manifesto of a Tenured Radical by Cary Nelson 9780814757949
$175.27In 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... -
The Conditions for Admission: Access, Equity, and the Social Contract of Public Universities by John Aubrey Douglass 9780804755597
RRP: $42.88$37.42The social contract of public universities-the progressive idea that any citizen who meets specified academic conditions can gain entry to their state university-has profoundly shaped American society. This book offers the first comprehensive examination... -
"Brown" in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism by Howell S. Baum 9780801476525
RRP: $54.58$47.07In the first book to present the history of Baltimore school desegregation, Howell S. Baum shows how good intentions got stuck on what Gunnar Myrdal called the "American Dilemma." Immediately after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision,... -
A History of Early Childhood Education in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand by Larry Prochner 9780774816601
RRP: $58.48$52.46In the early nineteenth century, governments began to develop specialized educational programs - kindergartens and infant or nursery schools - to give children a head start in life. These programs hinged on new visions of childhood that originated in... -
Transforming Conversations: Feminism and Education in Canada since 1970 by Dawn Wallin 9780773553576
RRP: $70.20$64.88What effect has feminism had on Canadian education since the 1970 Royal Commission on the Status of Women, and to what end? Transforming Conversations explores post-commission feminist thought and action in the contexts of primary, secondary,... -
New Possibilities for the Past: Shaping History Education in Canada by Penney Clark 9780774820592
RRP: $66.30$52.46This volume is an essential addition to the library of any student, historian, history educator, or history teacher interested in the state of learning and teaching in "our home and native land."Book InformationISBN 9780774820592Author Penney... -
Inequity in Education: A Historical Perspective by Debra Meyers 9780739133972
RRP: $198.90$173.82Inequity in Education represents the latest scholarship investigating issues of race, class, ethnicity, religion, gender, and national identity formation that influenced education in America throughout its history. Targeting sophisticated undergraduates... -
Beyond the Gymnasium: Educating the Middle-Class Bodies in Classical Germany by Heikki Lempa 9780739120897
RRP: $212.55$186.36Beyond 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... -
Japan and Germany under the U.S. Occupation: A Comparative Analysis of Post-War Education Reform by Masako Shibata 9780739111499
RRP: $175.50$153.68Focusing 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... -
The Limits of Reform in the Enlightenment: Attitudes Toward the Education of the Lower Classes in Eighteenth-Century France by Harvey Chisick 9780691614977
RRP: $87.75$68.87Examining the attitudes toward the education of the lower classes in eighteenth- century France, Harvey Chisick uncovers severe limitations to enlightened social thought. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
Private Academies of the Tokugawa Period by Richard Rubinger 9780691613956
RRP: $78.00$61.48Widening the focus of previous studies of Japanese education during the Tokugawa period, Richard Rubinger emphasizes the role of the shijuku, or private academies of advanced studies, in preparing Japan for its modern transformation. Originally... -
Knowledge Matters: The Public Mission of the Research University by Diana Rhoten 9780231151146
RRP: $156.00$121.47Higher education can be a vital public good, providing opportunities for students, informed citizens for democracy, and knowledge to improve the human condition. Yet public investment in universities is widely being cut, often because public purposes are... -
The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany by Scott Curtis 9780231134026
RRP: $195.00$158.93Scott Curtis draws our eye to the role of scientific, medical, educational, and aesthetic observation in shaping modern spectatorship. Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology in Germany between the 1890s and World War I, he follows... -
Education After Apartheid: South African Education in Transition by Peter Kallaway 9781919713106
RRP: $35.00$28.98This collection of readings aims to provide readers with a critical perspective on the unfolding educational policies of South Africa and provides a platform for participating in future educational debates.Book InformationISBN 9781919713106Author P... -
A History of Bilingual Education in the Us: Examining the Politics of Language Policymaking by Sarah C K Moore 9781788924245
RRP: $175.40$154.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788924245Author Sarah C K MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Multilingual Matters LimitedPublisher Multilingual Matters LimitedWeight(grams) 157g -
Rural Education in the 21st Century by Christine M.E. Frisiras 9781606929667
RRP: $233.98$155.57Rural schools, and the large chunk of the nation's students who attend them, face challenges every bit as daunting as those of their urban counterparts. It is important to keep in mind that rural schools differ greatly from one another. But as a group,... -
Decline of Learning in America by Charles T. Stewart 9781604562231
RRP: $99.43$67.14This book offers a complete and coherent analysis of the interrelated problems of student achievement at every level, the supply of scientific and technical manpower, its contribution to the nation's economic future, and the diverse policies directed at... -
Education in China by James U. Landowe 9781604563092
RRP: $259.33$172.03The field of education is consistently on the top of priority lists of every country in the world, yet few educators are aware of the progress elsewhere. Many techniques, programs and methods are directly applicable across borders. This volume deals with... -
Educational Conflict in the Sunshine State: The Story of the 1968 Statewide Teacher Walkout in Florida by Don Cameron 9781578869428
$231.52In 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,...