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First published in 1993, Specialisation and Choice in Urban Education explores how city technology colleges (CTC) have managed the task of selecting intakes representatives of their catchment areas and explore their impact on local schools. From their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299328900Author Chad Alan GoldbergFormat HardbackImprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of Wisconsin Press

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...

Winner of the 2021 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Historically, Americans of all stripes have concurred that teachers were essential to the success of the public schools and nation. However, they have also concurred that public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922235473Author Alan GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 714g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683366874Author Montgomery Bell AcademyFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint TurnerPublisher Turner

The University of Oxford was a medieval wonder. After its foundation in the late 12th century it made a crucial contribution to the core syllabus of all medieval universities - the study of the liberal arts law, medicine and theology - and attracted...

Colleges and universities in urban centers have often leveraged their locales to appeal to students while also taking a more active role in addressing local challenges. They embrace civic engagement, support service-learning, tailor courses to local...

First published in 1972, The Forsaken Lover draws upon Chris Searle’s experience as an English teacher in a secondary school in Tobago to focus upon the deep problems of identity encountered by black people having to use the white man’s language. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978827509Author Margaret A. NashFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 140g

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 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...

In The Marion Thompson Wright Reader, acclaimed historian Graham Russell Hodges provides a scholarly, accessible introduction to a modern edition of Marion Thompson Wright’s classic book, The Education of Negroes in New Jersey and to her full body of...

The Education Myth questions the idea that education represents the best, if not the only, way for Americans to access economic opportunity. As Jon Shelton shows, linking education to economic well-being was not politically inevitable. In the eighteenth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692824276Author Karen Polinger FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint University Press of MarylandPublisher University Press of Maryland

An Introduction to the History of Educational Theories, first published in 1881, offers a comprehensive overview of the most notable approaches to education throughout Western history, from Athens and Rome to the Victorian public school. Exploring not...

Make History with Your Students From bestselling author Paul Bambrick-Santoyo and Art Worrell, Uncommon Schools' Director of History Instruction, comes Make History, an inspiring book on how educators can take history instruction to the next level...

From 1966 to 1970, historian Martin Duberman transformed his undergraduate Princeton seminar on American radicalism. This book looks closely at the seminar, drawing on interviews with former students and colleagues, conversations with Duberman, and...

Liberation Pedagogy: Elijah Muhammad and the Art of Soul Crafting places the work of Elijah Muhammad in an educational context. Drawing from concepts in critical educational theory and Black liberation theology, it introduces to readers the contributions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781433100369Author David BoersFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 230g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978810051Author Dionne DannsFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 320g

From 1966 to 1970, historian Martin Duberman transformed his undergraduate Princeton seminar on American radicalism. This book looks closely at the seminar, drawing on interviews with former students and colleagues, conversations with Duberman, and...

In this ambitious book, Kenneth Wheeler revises our understanding of the nineteenth-century American Midwest by reconsidering an institution that was pivotal in its making-the small college. During the antebellum decades, Americans built a remarkable...

Inner-city schools suffered from far fewer problems a century ago, when black children in most northern cities attended school alongside white children. In "Schools Betrayed", Kathryn M. Neckerman tells the story of how and why these schools...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108985789Author Jeanne AllenPage Count 440Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

This book will be of interest to scholars of modern China and thehistory of education.Book InformationISBN 9780774821773Author Elizabeth R. VanderVenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of British...

The Place of Confluent Education in the Human Potential Movement relates the twenty-seven year Confluent Education Program at the University of California-Santa Barbara to the broad Human Potential Movement, in which the program is considered to be...

South Africa's transition to democracy has seen massive changes in the field of teacher education aimed at integrating its previously raced and gendered character. This book provides a comprehensive historical overview and relational understanding of the...

Exploring the phenomenon of school closures, this study highlights how traditional schoolhouses and neighborhood schools are disappearing at an alarming rate, making way for "big-box" schools that serve multiple communities and adhere to the...

Warring Sovereignties: Church Control and State Pressure at the University of Ottawa examines the battle between religious and non-secular cultures for control of the university in the 1960s. Canon law, with particular emphasis on Oblate norms, was a...

This original volume examines the collaboration between East Timorese and international staff in the rebuilding of the education sector during the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) 1999-2002. Using interviews, contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978824447Author Sharon S. LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 152g

In a radically unequal United States, schools are often key sites in which injustice grows. Ansley T. Erickson's Making the Unequal Metropolis presents a broad, detailed, and damning argument about the inextricable interrelatedness of school policies and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820360348Author Robert CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams) 152g

Literacy in Early Childhood and Primary Education provides a comprehensive introduction to literacy teaching and learning. The book explores the continuum of literacy learning and children's transitions from early childhood settings to junior primary...

In this book, leading historian of education Jeffrey E. Mirel retells a story we think we know, in which public schools forced a draconian Americanization on the great waves of immigration of a century ago. Ranging from the 1890s through the World War II...

For Historical Foundations of Education and Philosophical Foundations of Education courses. Structured around major movements in world history, the lives of leading educators, and the philosophies and ideologies that resulted from their ideas, this...

The period from birth to 12 years is crucial in a child's development and can significantly impact future educational success, resilience and participation in society. Health and Wellbeing in Childhood provides readers with a comprehensive introduction...

Making Sense of Number is a concise introduction to personal and professional numeracy skills, helping readers to become more mathematically competent. It includes relevant content to assist pre-service teachers to improve numeracy for the classroom or...