History

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...

Engage students in meaningful civic learning and encourage them to become active and informed citizens. With this essential book, co-published by Routledge and MiddleWeb, you will gain a variety of practical strategies for teaching civics and current...

Over 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...

Building a New Educational State examines the dynamic process of black education reform during the Jim Crow era in North Carolina and Mississippi. Through extensive archival research, Joan Malczewski explores the initiatives of foundations and reformers...

An exploration of a surprisingly combative period in the history of English grammar. Heated arguments can break out over many things: slander, insults to a person's honor-and, during one period in English history, grammar. In his new book detailing the...

James Freedman, the fifteenth president of Dartmouth College, began life in a struggling middle-class Jewish family in a provincial industrial New Hampshire town. By the time of his death from cancer in March 2006, he was one of the most celebrated...

By examining the myriad myths surrounding Central European universities, Czech historians Lukas Fasora and Jiri Hanus take a diachronic approach to investigating the issues facing higher learning in the region. Using careful historical research, the...

The Roots of Educational Inequality chronicles the transformation of one American high school over the course of the twentieth century to explore the larger political, economic, and social factors that have contributed to the escalation of educational...

The second half of the twentieth century saw the University of Pennsylvania grow in size as well as in stature. On its way to becoming one of the world's most celebrated research universities, Penn exemplified the role of urban renewal in the postwar...

At its peak in 1961 there we're 40,000 men and women who entered colleges of education compared to 50,000 who entered traditional universities. This controversial project critically traces the origins of the colleges, their development and reasons for...

American higher education was transformed between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. During this period, U.S. colleges underwent fundamental changes--changes that helped to create the modern university we know today. Most...

Published in the year 2006, Unpopular Education is a valuable contribution to the field of Media and Cultural Studies.Book InformationISBN 9780415654708Author CCCSFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis...

First published in 1975, Donald Akenson's book was at the forefront of a radically new approach to the study of Irish educational history. Instead of investigating the evolution of the schools as an isolated process, he explores the complex...

As common schooling emerged in the 1830s, providing white children of all classes and ethnicities with the opportunity to become full-fledged citizens, it redefined citizenship as synonymous with whiteness. While white residents of Boston and New Haven...

When we published Land of Hope in May of 2019, we had an immediate response from teachers and students that (1) they loved the book, and (2) they would need ancillary materials to aid them in the use of the book for classroom instruction. We jumped...

Singapore under the ruling People's Action Party government has been categorized as a developmental state which has utilized education as an instrument of its economic policies and nation-building agenda. However, contrary to accepted assumptions, the...

Originally published in 1984, this is a study of the kings and the aristocracy who ruled England between the Conquest and the Reformation. Not, as usual, about their adult lives, but how they became the people they were through childhood and education...

Payne's translation of Compayre's The History of Pedagogy was initially published in 1886 due to a general lack of historical texts on education in the late nineteenth century. Compayre provides a thorough account of the doctrines and methods used by...

We are all our history. Yet despite curricular revisions, the mainstream historical narrative that shapes the way we teach students about the Canadian nation can be divisive, separating "us" from "them." Responding to the evolving demographics of an...

This book traces a history of bilingual education in the US, unveiling the pervasive role of politics and its influence on integrity of policy implementation. It introduces readers to once nationwide, systemic supports for diverse bilingual educational...

Teacher and student interaction occur in a complex and dynamic environment. Managing with Mindfulness: Connecting with Students in the 21st Century draws on educational psychology, duty-of-care principles and mindfulness practices to introduce the...

Clara D. True and Clinton J. Crandall, teacher and superintendent for the Indian Day School of the Santa Clara Pueblo, were typical agents in the campaign waged by the federal government to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream American society. As...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108821117Author Wendy BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

In this ground breaking analysis, Terry M. Moe treats Hurricane Katrina as a natural experiment that offers a rare opportunity to learn about the role of power in the politics of institutional reform. When Katrina hit, it physically destroyed New...

Winner: AAIS First Book Prize Old 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...

Specially commissioned to mark the 40th Anniversary of History of Education, and containing articles from leading international scholars, this is a unique and important volume. Over the past forty years, scholars working in the history of education have...

First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415408325Author Centre for Contemporary Cultural StudiesFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921867408Author Philip ChanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 468g

In Experiencing Sophiatown, Sophiatown residents discuss the challenges of getting to know their neighbors-toward whom they often felt isolated and sometimes suspicious-and of making a community that could respond to their needs and concerns. In talking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908095992Author George WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint John Catt Educational LtdPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 166gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560725459Author Bryan T. PeckFormat HardbackPage Count 117Imprint Nova BiomedicalPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 260g

Do business schools actually make good on their promises of "innovative," "outside-the-box" thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahead of money-making? Do they help society by making better business leaders? No,...

In 2016 the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education published a landmark study, What do students know and understand about the Holocaust? Almost 10,000 students aged 11 to 18 participated in the research. It was the largest of its kind anywhere in the world...

Ethical education should help students become more sensitive to the perspectives and experiences of others. However, the field is dominated by the teaching of moral values as a subject-matter, or by the fostering of character traits in students, or by...

American publishing in the long nineteenth century was flooded with readers, primers, teaching-training manuals, children's literature, and popular periodicals aimed at families. These publications attest to an abiding faith in the power of pedagogy that...

Why-contrary to much expert and popular opinion-more education may not be the answer to skyrocketing inequality.For generations, Americans have looked to education as the solution to economic disadvantage. Yet, although more people are earning degrees,...