History

Hope Deferred, initially published in 1965 traces the history of girls' education from Anglo-Saxon England to modern times, telling the story largely through the leading personalities whose opinions and prejudices shaped this history. It outlines the...

Through close analysis of primary source textual documents produced by the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) between 1947 and 1968, this unique text reveals the undocumented influence of the FSI on K-12 language instruction and assessment in the United...

Beyond Macaulay provides a radical and comprehensive history of Indian education in the early colonial era - from the establishment of the Calcutta Madrasa in 1780 until the end of the East India Company's rule and the beginning of the administration by...

This brief, interpretive history of American schooling focuses on the evolving relationship between education and social change. Like its predecessors, this new edition investigates the impact of social forces such as industrialization, urbanization,...

Can public schools in America be saved? This book considers theory, current practice, and the common school ideal through a historical lens to arrive at practical suggestions for reforming contemporary public education. Despite dramatic, sweeping...

In this unique educational history, Donald B. Kraybill traces the sociocultural transformation of Eastern Mennonite University from a fledgling separatist school founded by white, rural, Germanic Mennonites into a world-engaged institution populated by...

The 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,...

One of the great challenges now facing education reformers in the United States is how to devise a consistent and intelligent framework for instruction that will work across the nation's notoriously fragmented and politically conflicted school systems...

Written expressly for the lay reader this volume combines statistics, achievements and failures of the educational system in England in the 20th century into a concise survey, set against the social, economic and political background of the mid 1960s...

This book presents a sweeping overview of the historical and philosophical foundations of schooling in the United States. Beginning with education among the indigenous peoples of the Americas and going on to explore European models of schooling brought...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873927908Author Roger DaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Symposium BooksPublisher Symposium Books

The formation of Northern Ireland marked a sharp divergence in policy that had developed throughout the whole of Ireland in the preceding century. Local communal interests helped to drive and shape a unique model of teacher preparation. Teacher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787359321Author Takaaki InuzukaFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 460g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592217274Author Jack WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 598g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592214792Author Matt MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 309g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592210039Author George J Sefa DeiFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 530g

This volume traces the University of Rochester's development from a small college housed in a former hotel in 1850 to its place as a leading research university in 2005. The story is told in eight chapters, each of which chronicles the major issues and...

This volume traces the University of Rochester's development from a small college housed in a former hotel in 1850 to its place as a leading research university in 2005. The story is told in eight chapters, each of which chronicles the major issues and...

Despite its prominence as a world cultural center and a locus of research on deaf culture, history, education, and language for more than 150 years, Gallaudet University has only infrequently been the focal point of historical study. Eminent historians...

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...

This essay examines the history of the Indian subcontinent and the Partition of 1947 from a pedagogical perspective.   How does education shape political rivalry and hostility? The Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947—the violence that followed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787359833Author Gary McCullochFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 470gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 13mm

A groundbreaking analysis of how teachers actually teach and have taught in the past.   The quality and effectiveness of teaching are a constant subject of discussion within the profession and among the broader public. Most of that conversation focuses...

This book examines interactions between Britain and India through the analytical framework of the production and circulation of knowledge throughout the long eighteenth century. Disciplined Subjects is one of the first works to analyse the imperial...

While current literature stresses the importance of teaching about the 9/11 attacks on the US, many questions remain as to what teachers are actually teaching in their own classrooms. Few studies address how teachers are using of all of this advice and...

Learn how to incorporate rigorous activities in your English language arts or social studies classroom and help students reach higher levels of learning. Expert educators and consultants Barbara R. Blackburn and Melissa Miles offer a practical framework...

Big Fish, Little Fish: Teaching and Learning in the Middle Years provides pre-service and early career teachers with a pathway to understanding the needs of students as they make the important transition from primary to secondary schooling. The book...

Discover the teaching practices that make the biggest difference in student performance! The new edition of this practical, research-based book gives leaders and teachers an even closer look at instructional practices from top award-winning urban...

The final title of a series, this volume traces the history of the federal University of Wales through a period of vast expansion and the inherent problems of such an expansion. It examines the role the University played in the end of the British Grants...

The second in a series, this volume traces the history of the federal University of Wales from its foundation in 1893 to the eve of World War II and places it in the broad background of higher education in Britain. The main strands of academic advance...

Making Socialists combines a biographical study of a (nowadays) virtually unknown woman with an original exploration of several major themes in late nineteenth and early twentieth century political and educational history. More than a local politician,...

This work examines education in both theory and practice during the Enlightenment and the French Revolution when educators aimed at nothing less than reforming humanity and creating a new society. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy...

The Effective Teaching of History brings together the varied expertise of three experienced educationalists to provide a practical and invaluable guide for teachers, and teachers-in-training who wish to teach history Key Stages 1-4. It covers a wide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879288843Author Nancy Van DeusenFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint University of Exeter PressPublisher University of Exeter Press

Scholarship on the history of West Germany's educational system has traditionally portrayed the postwar period of Allied occupation as a failure and the following decades as a time of pedagogical stagnation. Two decades after World War II, however, the...

Following the Treaty of Versailles, European nation-states were faced with the challenge of instilling national loyalty in their new borderlands, where fellow citizens could differ dramatically from one another along religious, linguistic, cultural, or...

In this important new work, the author analyses the contributions that our Ministers for Education made to the Irish education system between the years 1919 and 1999. Covering the social, economic and political realities of the time, and taking in the...

"...a very readable book. Personalities and their relationships are vividly described." * American Historical Review "...Schaeper is to be warmly congratulated ...This is a piece of thorough and careful research, well organized, and a...

Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, but it was only in the twentieth century that such efforts evolved into formal programs that received focused attention from nation-states and empires...

Up to now European unification has primarily been considered a matter of political and economic concern. Very little attention has been paid to education and training, although many resolutions of various treaties, especially regarding the labor market,...