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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,...

First published in 1973 Professor Akenson's book traces the series of religious and political controversies which have battered the state schools of Northern Ireland. After the government's admirably intentioned, but muddled, attempt to create a...

First published in 1973 Professor Akenson's book traces the series of religious and political controversies which have battered the state schools of Northern Ireland. After the government's admirably intentioned, but muddled, attempt to create a...

In the late nineteenth century, an era in which social mobility was measured almost exclusively by the success of men, Irish American women were leading their ethnic group into the lower middle class occupations of civil service, teaching, and health...

In Homeschooling: The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice, James G. Dwyer and Shawn F. Peters examine homeschooling's history, its methods, and the fundamental questions at the root of the heated debate over whether and how the state...

The founding articles of the University of Chicago contained what was for the era a shocking declaration: "To provide, impart, and furnish opportunities for all departments of higher education to persons of both sexes on equal terms." In a time when many...

Grounded in contemporary, evidence-based research, the second edition of Assessment for Teaching provides a comprehensive introduction to assessment and teaching in primary and secondary school settings. Taking a practical approach to assessment and the...

As one of the most rapid and earliest nations to achieve "Western modernisation", much of Japan's success stems from its fruitful literacy history during the Tokugawa shogunate as well as later influences from Western educational ideals and...

Humanities and Social Science (HASS) education is integral in the development of active and informed citizens, and encourages learners to think critically, solve problems and adapt to change. Making Humanities and Social Sciences Come Alive: Early Years...

Early Mathematical Explorations shows readers how to provide young children with rich mathematical learning environments and experiences. This book presents teachers with a sound theoretical framework to encourage children to become numerate in the...

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...

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 Palfrey Notebook is a unique survival from the early seventeenth century. Compiled in around 1623 by George Palfrey of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, probably as a record of his studies for his Master's degree, it covers many of the widely-used...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542173Author Kurt SquireFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Early Learning and Development provides a unique synthesis of cultural-historical theory from Vygotsky, Elkonin and Leontiev in the twentieth century to the ground-breaking research of scholars such as Siraj-Blatchford, Kratsova and Hedegaard today. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982532706Author Molefi Kete AsanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Universal Write Publications LLCPublisher Universal Write Publications...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400030644Author Diane RavitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 219gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This workbook: targets key misconceptions and barriers to help your students get back on track addresses areas of underperformance in a systematic way, with a unique approach that builds, develops and extends students' skills gets students ready for the...

Cambridge CollegesBook InformationISBN 9780711703827Author Janet JeacockFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Jarrold PublishingPublisher Pavilion BooksWeight(grams) 140g

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

This volume brings together a diverse range of contributors to explore the significance of intersectionality and transnationalism, with reference to the history of education. The chapters cover a range of educational spaces and places and demonstrate the...

For nearly seven years, from 1967 to 1974, many hundreds of bright, college-going youth—most of whom had previously been labeled as high school “dropouts”—would proudly celebrate their graduation from Harlem Prep, a small educational experiment that grew...

For nearly seven years, from 1967 to 1974, many hundreds of bright, college-going youth—most of whom had previously been labeled as high school “dropouts”—would proudly celebrate their graduation from Harlem Prep, a small educational experiment that grew...

Offering an overview of the history, perspectives, and developments of education in Indonesia since the country’s independence in 1945, in this book the authors raise awareness of education's impact on national development in this unique context.With...

Constructions of Illiteracy in Twentieth Century Ireland: Contesting the Narrative of Full Literacy offers new insights into literacy and illiteracy in the context of twentieth-century Ireland.

This book provides an exposition on the professional and cultural life of Patrick Weston Joyce (1827–1914), more popularly known as P. W. Joyce, who lived and worked during the final phase of British rule in Ireland. The focus throughout is very much on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032417752Author Guoming WangPage Count 292Imprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Beyond Macaulay provides a radical and comprehensive history of Indian education in the early colonial era from 1780 to 1860. It critically explores data of 16,000 indigenous schools, which shows that indigenous education was not oral, informal, and...

In the face of relentless attacks on antiracist education, an urgent call to defend students’ freedom to learn the truth about our history and the struggle for a better world.In recent years, numerous states and school districts have enacted policies or...

This much needed new editionprovides a complete and essential guide to this fast developing, ever changing and often tense region. This book, fully updated for 2024, examines the origins and development of the events which have dominated the headlines...